Southern Reflection, A
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General Info
Year: 2020
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Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
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Errata
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Program Notes
A Southern Reflection was inspired by the incredibly gifted shape-note singers that pervaded portions of the South. The heart-rending emotion projected, the intense lyricism that seems to well from deep within the soul, the harsh sadness of the melodic and harmonic content — all of this and more struck a real nerve unlike any previously experienced. A recording of Barb'ry Ellen performed by three such singers captured for me what "it means to be Southern" in a far more honest and spiritual way than any words can attempt to illustrate. I only hope that my understanding has been enhanced through their exquisite rendition. These mournful tones have haunted me ever since.
The changing moods of this beautifully sung trio provided very nearly all of the material included in A Southern Reflection. The turbulence of the changing musical emotions is well documented through subtle, free changes of tempi, yet never at the expense of the original motives. The soul-felt kinship of the South's relationship to future genres of music appears in the passionate outburst near the conclusion of the piece. Rather than serving as a tribute to the South's impact upon the jazz idiom, it highlights the joy that has come to all of us through such humble musical beginnings. The coda retreats to its roots, decidedly a "reflection" of a place the South has been over the years, adding a sense of intention that the journey is not yet complete.
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Mississippi State University (Starkville) Wind Ensemble (Barry E. Kopetz, conductor) - 4 March 2020 (86th Annual ABA National Convention) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Afton River Fantasy
- American Sketches (2003)
- Americana Folk Suite
- Around the World at Christmas Time
- As the Clock Ticks (2010)
- Ash Grove Fantasy (2011)
- Asian Sunrise (2003)
- Battle Suite (2013)
- Before Their Time (2017)
- Belmont County Saga (2018)
- Camperdown Way
- Canyonlands (2006)
- Caves in the Mountains (2006)
- Celebration Fanfare (2018)
- Ceremony and Lyric Song
- The Chase Through Albemarle! (2008)
- Christmas Across the World (as arranger) (2005)
- Climb Every Mountain
- Corridors of Castle Doria (2010)
- Cottonwood Canyon Rhapsody (1997)
- Courageous Spirit (2007)
- Dance at the Lake of Miramoor (2004)
- Dedication and Festival (2010)
- Do Re Mi
- Dorian Landscape (1998)
- Down Paths of Darkness (1996)
- Downing Street March
- Drummer Boy of Shiloh (as arranger)
- Duke of Bedford
- Edgar Allan Poe (2017)
- Elegy for a Rose
- Escape of the Shadow Men (2007)
- Exuberance (2005)
- Fanfare, Joyance and Chorale
- Fanfare and Aria (2004)
- Fantasia on a Theme from "The Southern Harmony" (as arranger) (2015)
- Fantasy on Psalm 100 (1999)
- Fantasy on a Theme by Samuel Barber (as arranger)
- Fantasy on an Australian Song (2004)
- Flat Out and Wide Open (2011)
- Flourishes and Variants
- For the Glory of the Flag
- Frogs and Toads! (2009)
- From the Cedars to the Mountains (2002)
- Games (2003)
- Gates of the Minotaur (2006)
- The Ghost of the Desert (2019)
- Greek Folk Song Suite (as arranger) (2013)
- Greenland March
- Heroes and Legends (2007)
- Hillandale March
- Hoe-Down Hallelujah!
- Hymn for the King of the House of Silverbow (2005)
- In Brotherhood Abiding (2001)
- In Darkest Night (2003)
- In Old Melbourne Town (1999)
- In the Emerald City (2009)
- In the Forest Deep (2010)
- In the Land of the Lochrians (2002)
- Incantation and Shadow Dance (2011)
- Into Thin Air (2011)
- The Journey to Aeolia (2003)
- Jubilant Tribute
- Karolee Way
- Keys of Canterbury
- Knightsbridge Chronicles (1992)
- The Latin Half-Step (2000)
- Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee (as arranger)
- Letters from the Battlefield (2016)
- Like Whirlwinds (2012)
- Lincoln at Gettysburg (2009)
- Lizards! (2008)
- March Regal
- March and Ecossaise (2001)
- March of the Ladybugs (2005)
- McMorran Suite (1992)
- Memories of Kirby (2004)
- More Games! (2004)
- Muskingum Portrait (2011)
- Napoleon at Waterloo (2007)
- Northridge Overture
- Of Noble Courage (2014)
- Of Pomp and Ceremony (2007)
- Old Irish Song (as arranger)
- Olympus (2007)
- On the Banks of Prairie River (2012)
- The Peaks of Solitude
- The Pillars of Phrygia (1995)
- Raven
- Rising of the Assidium Moon (2005)
- The Road to Castlemaine (as arranger) (2019)
- Rondo Sonore
- Ryebuck Shearer (as arranger) (2001)
- Salutes and Salutations (2020)
- Scenes from Grand Lake
- Scottish Folk Rhapsody
- Screamer March, The (Jewell) (as arranger) (2006)
- Secret of the Soothsayer (2009)
- Sherlock Holmes (2018)
- Shore Song Shanty (1991)
- The Siege of Rhodes (2010)
- Sighting of the Whales (2008)
- Silent Night (as arranger) (2008)
- Silver Star Ranch (2002)
- Sing High Down (as arranger) (2015)
- Sleigh Bells and Reindeer (1992)
- Snapshots! (2008)
- Snowbird! (1999)
- Somewhere (as arranger)
- Song of the Desert
- A Southern Reflection (2020)
- Spartanburg Overture (1988)
- Spiritual (Kopetz)
- Symphony of the Hills (1999)
- The Tarantula (2008)
- Tecumseh (2004)
- Ten Thousand Miles (as arranger) (2016)
- Tune in a Popular London Style (as arranger) (2006)
- Under the Big Top (1991)
- The Valley of Darkness (2014)
- Variations on Lobe Den Herren (as arranger)
- The Voice Beneath the Waters (2009)
- Volcanic Fire (2008)
- A Walk in Central Park (2012)
- Wellington Overture
- When Full Moon's Light (2005)
- Whipsaw March (2004)
- With Praise and Celebration (2004/2005)
Resources
- "Dr. Barry E. Kopetz." Mississippi State University Department of Music. Web. Accessed 4 March 2020