Until the Night Collapses
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 5:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Andrew David Perkins
Cost: Score and Parts (print or digital) – $120.00 | Score Only – $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
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
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Concert Tom (large) or Side Drum
- Crash Cymbal
- Field Snare Drum (large)
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tam
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
"Love! Love until the night collapses..." from the second poem of Canto General (1950), Pablo Neruda's tenth book of poetry. Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, or as he was better known, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician, who was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He often wrote in green ink, which was his personal symbol for desire and hope.
Hope speaks to me through this line of poetry. I'm watching our American society violently spasm as the rise of hate groups, fascists, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are met with massive counter-protests. Mass shootings with tragic civilian casualties are becoming a regularly occurring nightmare. Families seeking asylum are being torn apart, and I see so much anger, so much contempt, and horrifically, so much violence. I feel as though we are in the dark, in the deep of night, disoriented and desperately seeking the light.
Until The Night Collapses is a meditation on the crisis our nation faces and ideals to which we aspire. It interpolates traditional American patriotic songs with fragments of Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2, an anthem for peace and non-violence.
Dedicated to the students, parents and staff of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- DePaul University (Chicago, Ill.) Wind Symphony (Michael King, conductor) – 21 February 2020 (CBDNA 2020 North Central Division Conference, Chicago, Ill.)
- Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Concert Band (Bruce Moss, conductor) – 29 November 2018 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Noble Gases (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Alcatraz (2014)
- Asylum (2017)
- Clutch. (2019)
- Conspiracy Theories (2016)
- Gradients (2017)
- Horror Vacui (2020)
- Left of Boom (2022)
- Noble Gases (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- On Shoulders of Giants (2021)
- Prayers in Villefranche (2016)
- The Raptor Rides the Whale (2018)
- Skeletonic (2022)
- Société Blue (2022)
- Southeast by Northwest (2016)
- Trip the Light Fantastic (2015)
- Tuebor (2020)
- Until the Night Collapses (2018)
- Vox Nostra (2022)
- Wigs & Gilt (2023)
Resources
- Andrew David Perkins website Accessed 29 November 2018