Sea Dreams
Subtitle: Concerto for Two Horns and Wind Ensemble
General Info
Year: 1997
Duration: 32:00
Difficulty: VII (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Rental
Movements
1. Moderate‐Very fast - 10:47
2. Flexible and expressive - 10:13
3. Moderately slow‐Very fast - 9:01
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- Solo Horn in F I-II
- Flute I-II (I doubling C Piccolo; II doubling Alto Flute)
- Oboe I-II (II doubling English Horn)
- Bassoon I-II (II doubling Contrabassoon)
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
- E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- C Trumpet I-II (I doubling Piccolo Trumpet)
- Trombone
- Bass Trombone
- Double Bass (3)
- Harp
- Piano
- Timpani
- Percussion (6 players), including:
- *Bass Drum (2)
- *Crotales
- *Marimba (2)
- *Railroad Track (or Anvil)
- *Snare Drum
- *Suspended Cymbal (2: small and large)
- *Tam-tam
- *Tenor Drum
- *Tom-tom (3)
- *Tubular Bells
- *Vibraphone (2)
- *Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
"I was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the whaling port of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The sea has been, and will be a part of me forever. I was riveted by the mundane aspects of the book – the pictures of the varying ocean moods, the minute descriptions of the ship and whaling gear – sprang to life for me as powerfully as the titanic struggles with the white whale. Since my youth, other stories of Melville, the paintings of Winslow Homer, and the sea imagery in the poetry of Pablo Neruda have opened me in the same way.
The Concerto is in three movements. The first is a double movement with a very serious opening, and a released and joyous conclusion. The second movement is devoted to reflective personal thought, while the third parallels the double structure of the first: an intense personal message followed by a rousing dance music."
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Western Winds (Bill Scharnburg and Ellen Campbell, horn)
- Audio CD: Illinois State University Wind Symohny (Stephen K. Steele, conductor; Nancy O'Neill and SaulGarland, horn) - 2015
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Florida State University (Tallahassee) Wind Orchestra (Richard Clary, conductor) - 18 November 2004
- Georgia State University (Atlanta) Symphonic Winds (Thomas Wubbenhorst, conductor) - 5 March 1999
- Ithaca College (N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Lawrence Harper, conductor) - 7 April 1998 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alex and the Phantom Band (2002/2015)
- Angel of Mercy (2015)
- California (2016)
- A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (1999)
- Concerto for Marimba and Band (1990)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2015)
- Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (1979)
- Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- Concerto No 2 for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (2002)
- Concerto No 3 for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2016)
- Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Crown of Thorns (1991)
- Desert Roads (2005)
- Fanfare-Variations on the Chorale Melody "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall). See: Recitation Book
- First Light (2016)
- Four Pieces for Band (1980)
- Give Us This Day (2005)
- Golden Light (1990)
- Heart Songs (2001)
- Hell's Gate (1997)
- Hohner (1999)
- Hosannas (2015)
- Husa (2016)
- Hymn for World Peace (2014)
- Illumination (2013)
- In Memoriam (1990)
- Laudamus Te (1995)
- Letter to Martin (2015)
- Liberation (2012)
- Little Concerto (1990)
- Mass (1995/2005)
- Montana Music: Chorale Variations (1993)
- Morning Star (1997)
- Mother Earth (2008)
- Mountain Roads (1997)
- On This Bright Morning (2013)
- Peace (2012)
- Prelude on a Gregorian Tune (1981)
- Procession of the Academics (2008)
- Quintet for Winds No. 1 (1984)
- Quintet for Winds No. 2 (1986)
- Recitation Book (2006)
- Remember Me (2013)
- Requiem (2013)
- Rollo Takes a Walk (1980)
- Saint Francis (2015)
- Sea Dreams (1998)
- The Seeker (2016)
- Song at the End of Time
- Songs for the Coming Day (2012)
- Song Book (2001)
- Symphony No. 2 (1987)
- Symphony No. 3 (1991/2007)
- Symphony No. 4 (1993)
- Symphony No. 5 (2000)
- Symphony No. 6 (2004)
- Symphony No 7 (2004)
- Symphony No 8 (2008)
- Symphony No. 9 (2011)
- Symphony No. 10 (with Matthew Maslanka) (2018)
- Tears (1994)
- Testament (2001)
- Traveler (2003)
- A Tuning Piece: Songs of Fall and Winter (1995)
- ufo dreams (1999)
- Unending Stream of Life (2007)
- Variants on a Hymn Tune (1995)
Resources
None discovered thus far.