Some Give All

David Holsinger

David Holsinger

General Info

Year: 2016
Duration: c. 9:25
Difficulty: IV-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00   |   Score Only (print) - $12.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
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
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:

• Bass Drum
• Crash Cymbals
• Hi-Hat
• Marimba
• Orchestra Chimes
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tam-Tam
• Temple Blocks
• Triangle
• Wood Block
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

An extended trumpet duet opens this moving tribute to a fallen soldier. As the two trumpets end the ensemble takes over, offering a solemn and dignified theme that resonates with a quiet majesty. The activity picks up, growing in texture and counterpoint, ascending to triumphant heights before closing as it began with a quiet and distant trumpet solo.

- Program Note from publisher

A year or so ago, I was approached by Thornton Community Band conductor, Jon Borodach, concerning writing a piece to honor a young man from Thornton, Colorado, who died in the first days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Marine, Lance Corporal Thomas Slocum was killed in an ambush on the third day of the military operation to remove Saddam Hussein’s regime and the potential for weapon production and distribution to terrorist organizations. It was a shocking loss, not only to his family, but also to an entire community.

I am a veteran. I served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971. It was not a good time to be in uniform. Some of my friends who served in Vietnam returned home to be spit upon and called “baby killers” by an unsympathetic and jaundiced public. Some of my friends died there and anti-war radicals here at home publicly cheered their deaths. That was then. And this is, hopefully, a different time.

Now, as I travel, I gladly stand and applaud as troops file off an aircraft. Now I thank these young people as I pass them in the corridors for serving their country. I weep each week when I see the casualty reports and see the names of young men and women lost so early in their years. And as the decades go by, I stand taller and prouder every Veterans Day. I am unashamed to call myself an American patriot.

Would I write a work to honor a fallen hero? Try and stop me.

- Program Note by composer

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Wartburg College (Waverly, Iowa) Wind Ensemble (Craig A. Hancock, conductor) – 5 November 2017
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M66S49bHCA Thornton (Colo.) Community Band (Jon Borodach, conductor) – 9 November 2013 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
• Adagio (2000)
• The Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman! (2014)
• American Faces (1996)
• Ancient Dances (2020)
• The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf (1981)
• Army Ants March and Boogie (2005)
• At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
• Ballet Exaltare (1999)
• Ballet Sacra (1990)
• Battle Music (1990)
• A Call to Celebration (2012)
• Canticles! (2001)
• The Case of the Mysterious Stranger (1990)
• The Chase (2003)
• A Childhood Hymn (as arranger) (1862/1991)
• City Symphony
  • Cityscape I (Festive Hours Neon Night) (2001)
  • Cityscape II (Lonely Hours Anguished Night) (2004)
  • Cityscape III (Morning Hours Salvation Light) (2008)
• The Cluster Bluster Fluster March (1991)
• Connacht Rhapsody (2017)
• Consider the Uncommon Man (1992)
• Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
• Deerpath Dances (1996)
• Divertimented Dances (2006)
• The Easter Symphony (1986-1997)
• Elegy on an American Folk Tune (2006)
• Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
• Every Morning New (2002)
• Falcon Attack! (2002)
• Fanfare for Brass and Timpani (2003)
• Fanfare for Such a Time as This (2007)
• Fanfare for the Glorious Naycart (2001)
• Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
• Fantasy on Old Hundred (2019)
• Festiva Jubiloso (2000)
• Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
• Fort Canterbury March (1989)
• The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron (1988)
• Gears Pulleys Chains (2006)
• Gmyway’s Revenge! (1994)
• Graysondance (1993)
• Gypsydance (1994)
• Havendance (1985)
• The Helm Toccata (1991)
• Hero Music (2005)
• Homage: Three Tapestries (1999)
• Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
• If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else (1990)
• In Praise of Gentle Pioneers (1996)
• In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
• A Jolly Walk in Hibbertland (1991)
• Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
• Kansas City Dances (1978)
• L'Arco della Vita (2021)
• Lake Canterbury Regatta (1993)
• Last Run (2020)
• A Little Adventure Music (2002)
• Little Fantasy on an American Hymn (2009)
• A Little Mystery Music (1996)
• Liturgical Dances (1984)
• The Maelstrom (2009)
• The March of the Combat Patrol (1991)
• March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
• March on a Russian Hymnsong (2003)
• Mobbusters! (1994)
• Nilesdance (1987)
• On a Childhood Sunday Song (2004)
• On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989)
• On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowry (1993)
• On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
• On an American Spiritual (1991)
• On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances (1988)
• On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon (1999)
• On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
• On the Overland Stage to El Paso (2006)
• One Day in a Small Town (2004)
• Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince (2009)
• Partita Allegro (1997)
• The Peasant Village Dance (1990)
• Praises! (2001)
• Prairie Dances (1998)
• Prelude and Presto (2018)
• Prelude and Rondo (1976)
• The Pride of Buxmont (2000)
• Providence Unfinished (2002)
• Quiet River (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
• Riding With the Frontier Battalion (2000)
• Scaling the North Wall (1990)
• Scootin’ on Hardrock (1999)
• Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary (1981)
• Sinfonia Voci (1993)
• Solemn Hymn & Rowdy Dance (2010)
• Soliloquy (2020)
• Some Give All (2016)
• A Song of Moses (1999)
• Summer to Fall: A Love Song (2006)
• Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
• Symphonic Movement (2000)
• Texas Promenade (1999
• Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword (2004)
• To Live a Life Triumphant (2007)
• To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
• Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March (1994)
• The War Trilogy: 1971 (1999)
• The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
• Zinphonia (2017)

Resources

• David Holsinger website Accessed 29 August 2021
• Holsinger, D. (2016). Some Give All [score]. TRN Music: Ruidoso, N.M.
• Perusal score