Pacific Fanfare

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Score Cover
Score Cover

Frank Ticheli


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General Info

Year: 1994
Duration: 5:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manhattan Beach Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $95.00   |   Score Only - $15.00


Instrumentation

CHOIR I:
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II
Bb Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Timpani

CHOIR II:
Trumpet (in Bb) I, III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I, III (Bass)
Euphonium
Percussion I

  • Cymbal (small suspended)
  • Snare Drum
  • Tam-Tam
  • Tom-Toms (2, small and medium)
  • Tubular Bells
  • Vibraphone


OFF-STAGE:
Solo Trumpet off-stage (in Bb, C, & Eb, at player's preference)
Solo Horn in F off-stage

CHOIR III:
Trumpet (in Bb) II, IV
Horn in F III-IV
Trombone II
Tuba
Percussion II, including:

  • Cymbal (medium suspended)
  • Tam-Tam
  • Tom-Tom (medium and large)
  • Tubular Bells
  • Xylophone


Errata

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Program Notes

Pacific Fanfare, scored for woodwinds, brass and percussion, exploits several spatial characteristics of a large concert hall. Onstage, the brass and percussion sections are separated into two antiphonal choirs, with the woodwinds and timpani situated in the middle. Offstage, peripheral solo trumpet and horn project sounds from behind the audience.

The piece is a tribute to the great Venetian composer, Giovanni Gabrieli, who brilliantly utilized the space of St. Mark's Cathedral in his polychoral works and antiphonal fanfares.

There are two main themes, one based on wide melodic leaps (successive ascending fifths), the other based on a rapid repeated-note figure. In the beginning they are nostalgic and elegiacal, but by the second half of the piece they take on more grand, fanfare-like personalities.

Pacific Fanfare was completed in June of 1994 during a summer residency at Yaddo, an artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. It was composed as a gift to Carl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.


Program Note by Frank Ticheli


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