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Symphony IV (Walczyk)
Subtitle: Unforsaken
Contents
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 15:55
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: KevEli Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00; (digital) - $180.00 | Score Only (print) - $38.00
Movements
Single movement
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II-III (II doubles Alto Flute; III doubles Piccolo)
Oboe I-II-III (III doubles English Horn)
Bassoon I-II-III (III doubles Contrabassoon)
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II (I doubles Soprano Saxophone)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV-V (I doubles Piccolo Trumpet; IV-V double Flugelhorn)
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Tom-Tom (2)
- Triangle, Suspended
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Symphony No. 4 Unforsaken was commissioned by the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble, directed by Ray E. Cramer, and commemorates the 2017 opening of the academy’s new facilities. The commissioning ensemble premiered the work on July 11, 2017, at the Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo Japan.
The work’s primary pitch materials come from the ciphering of the word "Musashino" and multiple Japanese modes, including Akebono, Hirajōshi, Insen, Iwato, Min’yō, and Yō. The Symphony’s form utilizes a palindromic five-part arch, or bridge form [ A – B – C – B’ – A’ ]. The A sections are further broken down into a ternary structure that includes, in the outsets of the section, the Musashino call motive. In between the two calls, beginning in measure 31, is the work’s powerful fanfare. The final ‘A’ section of the Symphony, beginning in measure 305, repeats this formal layout. The close of the Symphony reprises the call motive and brief interjections of melodic motives from the entire work.
The Symphony’s ‘B’ sections comprise the energetic scherzo (beginning in measures 84 and 270, respectively) that features the Japanese Min’yō mode. The middle ‘C’ section also utilizes a ternary structure in which call motives (measures 176 and 251, respectively) serve as the bookends to the composer’s lyrical Emblems of Sacrifice hymn (beginning in measure 186). The hymn was the product of a grade 2-3 commissioned work by the same title, Emblems of Sacrifice, but the composer wanted to expand the hymn’s compositional possibilities and has done so here.
The Symphony’s title, Unforsaken, is in response to another work by the composer that was composed for the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble entitled, Eloi, Eloi, which asks the question, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). Symphony No. 4 – Unforsaken answers this inquiry with God’s response, “... and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” [Matthew 28:20]. The connection to the two works is also referenced through melodic pitch content and contour, in which the Symphony’s motives to both the scherzo and hymn are similar to the opening motif in Eloi, Eloi.
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Chris Chapman, conductor) – 29 October 2019
- Colorado Wind Ensemble (Denver) (David Kish, conductor) - 22 September 2018
- University of North Texas (Denton) Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) – 5 April 2018
- Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Ray E. Cramer, conductor) - 7 March 2018 (83nd Annual ABA National Convention)
- University of Texas, Arlington, Wind Symphony (Douglas Stotter, conductor) – 19 November 2017
- Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble (Tokyo, Japan) (Ray E. Cramer, conductor) – 11 July 2017 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Celebration Fanfare (2003)
- Centenary Anthem
- Children's Folksong Suite (2007)
- Concerto Gaucho (2007)
- Divertimento for Brass Quintet
- Elegy for the Wall's Unnamed (2015)
- Eloi, Eloi (2015)
- Emblems of Sacrifice (2016)
- From Glory to Glory (2011)
- Lateral Perspectives
- Peloton (2018)
- Planted on the Crystal Sea (2018)
- Sojourn of Dreams (2015)
- Songs of Paradise (1941/2011)
- Star Dust (arr Walczyk) (as arranger) (2013)
- Symphony No. 2 (2010)
- Symphony No. 3 (2013)
- Symphony No. 4 (2017)
- Symphony No. 5 (2018)
- Visionplace of Souls (2001/2008)
Resources
- Kevin Walczyk website Accessed 5 January 2018
- Perusal score
- "Symphony no. 4: Unforsaken." The Wind Band Symphony Archive. Web. Accessed 5 January 2018
