Summoning Graces
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 7:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Markowski Creative
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $195.00; (digital) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $40.00
Movements (played without pause)
1. Invocation
2. Splendor, Mirth, Good Cheer
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo (doubles Flute)
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass 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
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (I-VI), including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Temple Blocks
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Summoning Graces is about rediscovering joy in a world that has all but lost or forgotten it. The first movement, Invocation, is a bit of a prayer, a calling out to the stars, an urgent plea to the gods. Help us regain order. Help us find balance. Help us remember happiness, love, and kindness.
Movement two answers the first and grants us our wish by prescribing a healthy dose of Splendor, Mirth, Good Cheer. The heavens send down three of Zeus’s daughters: Aglaea (goddess of “Splendor”), Euphrosyne (goddess of “Mirth”), and Thalia (goddess of “Good Cheer”). Together, they are known as the Three Graces and, when summoned, their main objective is to inspire artists and poets to create beautiful work, to bestow great wisdom upon scientists and philosophers, and to bring joy and good will to both gods and mortals. Through song and dance and joyful festivities, these goddesses help remind us of all the beauty and fun that does exist in the world, even if it’s sometimes hidden.
Summoning Graces premiered on January 12, 2019, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with the Northeastern Oklahoma All-District High School Wind Ensemble, Dr. Jeffrey Gershman, conductor.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- World Adult Wind Orchestra Project (WAYOP) (Schladming, Austria) (Phillip Riggs, conductor) – 13 July 2019
- Loyola University New Orleans (La.) Wind Ensemble (Serena Weren, conductor) – 6 April 2019
- Northeastern Oklahoma All-District High School Wind Ensemble (Bartlesville) (Jeffrey Gershman, conductor) - 12 January 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Drawing Mars (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Finding the Words: ii. Undefined (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
All Wind Works
- As Midnight on a Moonless Night (2011)
- Blue Ambience (2003)
- Brooklyn Air (2016)
- Camerado (2013)
- The Cave You Fear (2014)
- City Trees (2012)
- Desert Sage (2022)
- Drawing Mars (2019)
- Drawing Mars (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Dreamland (2011)
- Elixir (2012)
- Embers (2015)
- Famishius Fantasticus (2012)
- Finding the Words
- Finding the Words: ii. Undefined (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Forever Summer (2016)
- Instinctive Travels (2009)
- JoyRiDE (2005/2014)
- Machiavelli's Conscience (2017)
- Monk by the Sea (2015)
- Reckoning (2017)
- Remember the Molecules (2013)
- Saturn Returns (2014)
- Shadow Rituals (2006)
- Shine (2010)
- Street Flair (2022)
- Summoning Graces (2019)
- Sunny-Side Up (2018)
- Tidal Forces (2010)
- The Tonic of Wildness (2017)
- Turkey in the Straw (2008)
- Unfamiliar Territory (2013)
- Walden (2011)
- You Are Cordially Invited (2016)
Resources
- Michael Markowski website Accessed 11 July 2019
- Perusal score