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Frank Ticheli

Frank Ticheli


General Info

Year: 2011
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Choir
Publisher: Manhattan Beach Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $150.00   |   Score Only - $18.50


Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Suspended Cymbal


Errata

  • Horn in F I-II, m.54, beats 3 and 4: Play the same sounding notes as Trumpet III - three eighth notes, all concert A-naturals (written E-naturals).
  • Horn in F I-II, m.55, beats 1 and 2: Should be half-note concert A-natural (written E-natural).


Program Notes

Rest is a concert band adaption of Ticheli’s prior choral work, There Will Be Rest. About his adaptation for wind band, the composer writes:

I preserved almost everything from the original: harmony, dynamics, even the original registration. I also endeavored to preserve carefully the fragile beauty and quiet dignity suggested by Sara Teasdale’s words. However, with the removal of the text, I felt free to enhance certain aspects of the music, most strikingly with the addition of a sustained climax on the main theme. The extended climax allows the band version to transcend the expressive boundaries of a straight note-for-note setting of the original. Thus, both versions are intimately tied and yet independent of one another, each possessing its own strength and unique qualities.

- Program note by composer


Rest for Concert Band was created in 2010 as a concert band adaptation of the composer's work for chorus, There Will Be Rest. In making this version, the composer wanted to preserve almost everything from the original including harmony, dynamics and even the original registration. He also endeavored to preserve carefully the fragile beauty and quiet dignity suggested by the words of the poet Sara Teasdale:

There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
I will make this world of my devising,
Out of a dream in my lonely mind,
I shall find the crystal of peace, above me
Stars I shall find.

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

- Program notes compiled by Marcie Phelan for the Ridgewood (NJ) Concert Band


Russel Mikkelson, director of bands at The Ohio State University, relates that he was looking for a piece of music with which to remember his father, and he always loved Ticheli's There Will Be Rest. So Dr. Mikkelson contacted Dr. Ticheli, asked him to set his choral work for wind band, and, after some persuasion -- Ticheli had doubts that the piece would work for winds -- Rest was the result.

- Program Note adapted from onstage remarks by Russel Mikkelson, 17 November 2017


Our performance ends with a work that should cause us to reflect and pray, Rest by Frank Ticheli. We want to make a tribute to all the American soldiers who died to defend our freedom and democracy and undisputed values. We also hope that peace can be found in all the world; a true and lasting peace that will brighten the soul of humanity.

- Program Note from Banda Santa Cecilia Besana e Triuggio concert program, 21 December 2018


Media


State Ratings

  • Texas: IV. Complete


Performances

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  • Western Illinois University (Macomb) Wind Ensemble (Steve Peterson, conductor) - 24 February 2023
  • University of Portland (Ore.) Wind Symphony (Patrick Murphy, conductor) - 19 November 2022
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Wind Ensemble (Travis Cross, conductor) – 22 April 2022 (2022 San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Concert Band Invitational)
  • East Tennessee State University (Johnson City) Concert Band, (Reilly Fox, conductor) - 21 April 2022
  • Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) Symphonic Band (Joshua W. Neuenschwander, conductor) - 29 October 2021
  • Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan) Adult Band Camp (Thomas Riccobono, conductor) - 15 August 2021
  • Ashland (Ohio) University Wind Enemble (Joseph Lewis Jr., conductor) - 21 March 2021
  • San Antonio (Tx.) Community Wind Ensemble (Albert Aguilar, conductor) - 13 December 2020
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Symphonic Band (Travis J. Cross, conductor) – 10 March 2020
  • Northwestern Oklahoma State University (Alva) Concert Band (Seth Cudd, conductor) - 5 March 2020
  • Texas State University (San Marcos) Concert Band (Chase Failing, conductor) - 4 March 2020
  • Iowa State University (Ames) Symphonic Band (Christian Carichner, conductor) – 28 February 2020
  • Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant) Symphony Band (James Batcheller, conductor) – 27 February 2020
  • University of South Carolina (Columbia) Wind Ensemble (Cormac Cannon, conductor) – 14 February 2020
  • Dallas (Tex.) Winds (Jerry Junkin, conductor) – 11 February 2020
  • University of Nebraska Kearney Festival Band (Brian Albers, conductor) – 27 January 2020
  • Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Orchestra (Mark Scatterday, conductor) – 27 January 2020
  • Ithaca (N.Y.) College Concert Band (Allen McMurray, conductor) – 11 December 2019
  • Western Illinois University (Macomb) Concert Band (Arturo Martinez, conductor) – 5 December 2019
  • Humboldt State University (Arcata, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Paul Cummings, conductor) – 12 October 2019


Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music


All Wind Works


Resources

  • Burrack, Frederick. "Rest." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 9, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 396-403. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013.
  • Frank Ticheli website Accessed 6 July 2020
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