Wind from the Mountain

From Wind Repertory Project
Conni Ellisor

Conni Ellisor


General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 19:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Denver Brass Publications through Art of Sound Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00; (digital) - $75.00


Movements

1. Majestically
2.
3. Molto Allegro


Instrumentation

Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV (I doubles Piccolo Trumpet and Flugelhorn; IV doubles Flugelhorn)
Horn in F I-II
Trombone
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba in C
Tuba in F
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Chimes
  • Snare Drum
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tam-Tam


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

When the commission as offered, the parameters were for "brass and percussion" and it should in some way represent Colorado. When I started to write it, it was approximately a year since my mother's death. When I approached the piece in Colorado, there's those winds that come in the autumn that seem to blow all the old stuff away.

But these things always take on a life of their own, and the second movement is very dark and it 's about the place in life where, for me personally, from the diagnosis of cancer (in her mother) to the end, there is no way out. There's no way out; the inevitable will happen; it's relentless…

In the third movement, it ends in a prayer. I'm hoping that it's basically uplifting.

- Program Note by composer


Commissioned by the Denver Brass from a gift by Kenneth Singleton, dedicated to Ann Ellisor.

- Program Note from score


Media


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

  • University of Denver (Colo.) Lamont Wind Ensemble (Héctor Jardón, conductor) - 12 October 2020
  • Denver Brass – January 2000 *Premiere Performance*


Works for Winds by This Composer


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