Prayers for a Troubled Nation

Jack Stamp

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This work was originally entitled Prayer for Band.

General Info

Year: 2018
Duration: c. 5:55
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

In introductory remarks to the premiere performance of Prayer for Band, later re-titled Prayers for a Troubled Nation, composer Jack Stamp described his memories of the turbulent social conditions of the 1960s, with its unrest, incivility, and violent death of esteemed leaders. He was saddened to observe this same incivility and social strife arising in the United States of late 2016 and 2017, and he was moved by a positive need to compose a work to prey for civility, to celebrate our fellow men and women. He pointed out that all we have on earth in the final analysis is each other.

The work consists of two melodies, joined together by shorts hymns or prayers.

Prayer for Band was written by University of Minnesota director of bands Emily Threinen, who had requested the work.

- Program Note by Dave Strickler

N.B. The Indiana University of Pennsylvania performance on 9 March 2018 used a computer application called MUSÉIK that allowed projected images to be synchronized with, to follow, the live music, rather than the reverse in which the conductor is forced to follow the audio/visual stream with a click track.

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State Ratings

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Performances

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University of Kentucky (Lexington) Symphony Band (George R. Boulden, conductor) - 14 April 2019
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Wind Ensemble (Timothy Paul, conductor) – 9 March 2018 (CBDNA 2018 Eastern Conference, New Haven, Conn.)
University of North Texas (Denton) University Band (Kelly Desjardins, conductor) – 8 November 2017
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Wind Ensemble (Emily Threinen, conductor) – 21 April 2017 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)

All Wind Works

AirLink (2009)
Aloft! (1997)
Antithigram (1977/1988)
As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
Bandancing (2004)
Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
The Beltway Jam (2006)
Border Dance (2021)
Cage Dance (2020)
Cenotaph (1992)
Cheers! (1995)
Chorale and Toccata (1993)
Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
Divertimento in F (1995)
Down East Fanfare (2003)
Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
Encomium (2022)
Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
Escapade (2007)
Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
The Final Beguine (2018)
Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
Forefathers
Four Maryland Songs (2000)
Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
In Final Obedience (1994)
In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
Iridium
Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
Miniature Overture (2010)
No Brief Candle (2019)
Panhandle Prelude (2013)
Past the Equinox
Pastime (1999)
Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
Prayer and Jubilation
Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
Psalm 150 (2013)
Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
Ricercare (2001)
Rondeau
Rondo alla BCP (2023)
San Luis Snapshots (2016)
Scenes from Terezin (2009)
Skyline
A Song of Hope (2013)
Southpaw (2014)
The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
Stranger at My Door (2021)
Symphony No. 1 (2006)
Three Places in England
Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
With Trump and Wing

Resources

Jack Stamp, personal correspondence, 8 November 2017
Jack Stamp website
Timothy Paul, personal correspondence, March 2018