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Symphony I (Syler)
Subtitle: Blue. For Soprano, Chorus and Wind Ensemble
General Info
Year: 1999
Duration: c. 35:00
Difficulty: V+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: James Syler
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Rental ($500.00) | Score Only (print) - $75.00
Movements
1. Impending Blue – 7:45
2. Dark Blue – 3:45
3. Fading Blue – 4:25
4. Still Point Blue – 5:05
5. True Blue – 9:20
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Soprano
Flute I-II (I doubling Piccolo)
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
Celeste
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV , including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Field Drum
- Gong
- Orchestra Bells
- Rainstick
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This oratorio-like choral symphony in five movements for solo soprano, SATB chorus and wind ensemble based on a text by the composer. The text is a free-verse lyrical narrative rooted in the notion of the loss of hope and the process of reconnecting with it. The music is in five movements held together by a chiastic descending arch form that descends in the first two movements to reach its nadir in the third movement and then ascends in the final two movements to its conclusion.
The work was completed in 1999 and commissioned by a consortium of 42 universities.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording (Mvt. I). University of Miami Wind Ensemble (Gary Green, conductor)
- Audio: Reference recording (Mvt. II). University of Miami Wind Ensemble (Gary Green, conductor)
- Audio: Reference recording (Mvt. III). University of Miami Wind Ensemble (Gary Green, conductor)
- Audio: Reference recording (Mvt. IV). University of Miami Wind Ensemble (Gary Green, conductor)
- Audio: Reference recording (Mvt. V). University of Miami Wind Ensemble (Gary Green, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- California State University Long Beach Wind Ensemble (John Carnahan, conductor; chorus) and Murray (Ky.) State University Wind Ensemble (Dennis Johnson, conductor – 19 October 1999 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
- Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
- Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
All Wind Works
- Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- A Blue Streak (2010)
- Cantique (2012)
- Congo Square (2016)
- Country Bandstand (2002)
- Fantasia on Brother James' Air (2023)
- Fantasia on "Silent Night" (2011)
- Fields (1994)
- Galop (as transcriber) (c. 1909/2013)
- Gearbox (2009)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
- The Harmonious Blacksmith (as arranger) (1720/2020)
- Hocus Pocus (2013)
- The Hound of Heaven (1988)
- Hymn for Emmanuel (2015)
- Love Among the Ruins (2016)
- Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Minton's Playhouse (1994)
- O Magnum Mysterium (1996)
- The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
- Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Seasons (2022)
- Silent Shadows to the Last (2017)
- Sinfonietta (2012)
- Storyville (1996)
- Suite Argentine (2020)
- Suite Louisiane (2018)
- Symphony No. 1, “Blue” (1999)
- Symphony No. 2 (2019)
- Tattoo (2005)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (2014)
- Wu Xing (2016)
Resources
- James Syler website Accessed 25 February 2023
- Syler, J. (1999). Symphony No. 1 "Blue": For Wind Ensemble, Chorus and Soprano [score]. Ballerbach: Boca Raton, Fla.