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Winter's Tale, A
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General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Anglo Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Not stated.
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A Winter’s Tale was commissioned by the Western Plains Wind Consortium, Daniel Baldwin, Founder and Director. The first performance took place on December 1, 2009 at the OPSU Centennial Theatre in Goodwell, Oklahoma, by the Oklahoma Panhandle State University Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Matthew C. Saunders.
The commission requested a ‘winter’ piece without connotations of Christmas or other seasonal religious festivals, and the composer has sought to describe a winter scene deep in the countryside. The work opens with sustained woodwind chords, coloured by bells, under which a solo alto saxophone sings a solitary dawn song. A brief climax for full band introduces the work’s main theme, with muted colours describing fields and forests deep in snow. Once again the full band takes up the theme until distant sleigh bells herald the arrival of a horse-drawn ‘troika’. This soon passes and a quiet moment reintroduces the main theme which leads to a repeat of the introduction to close the work.
-Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Emory Symphonic Winds (Scott A. Stewart, conductor) - 2012
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by this Composer
- Atlantic Odyssey (2010)
- Ballad for Benny (2001)
- Bandwagon
- Barn Dance and Cowboy Hymn (1982)
- Between the Two Rivers (2003)
- Big Sky Overture
- A Bluegrass Overture (2017)
- Cambridge Intrada
- Camelot Chronicles, The
- Carnival
- Carol of the Shepherds
- Celebration (1993)
- Centurion, The (1988/2000)
- Chorale and Variations
- Clarinet Calypso
- Colorado Springs
- Concert Prelude (1976/2000)
- Concertino Classico (2010)
- Concerto for Clarinet
- Dance Movements (1995)
- Deserts (2008)
- Diamond Concerto (2012)
- Diversions - Variations on a Swiss Folk Song
- Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
- Earth, Water, Sun, Wind (2000)
- English Sea Song Suite, An
- Euphonium Concerto No. 2
- Exultation (2010)
- Fanfare for Saint Cecilia (2008)
- Fanfare, Romance and Finale
- Fantasy for Euphonium
- Festive Tribute, A (J.S. Bach)
- Fiesta! (1998)
- Fiesta de la Vida
- Five Festive Fanfares
- Flying the Breeze (2002/2004)
- Four Norfolk Dances (2001)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (as arranger) (1910/2007)
- Hail the Dragon! (2010)
- Harlequin (2004)
- Hanover Festival (2000)
- Huntingdon Celebration, A (2003)
- Infinity and Beyond...
- Invictus
- Jubilee Overture (1983)
- Klezmer Karnival, A (2004)
- Land of the Long White Cloud, The
- Lindisfarne Rhapsody, A (1998)
- Madrigalum (2006)
- Marchissimo (2004)
- Mary's Boy Child (as arranger)
- Masquerade
- Merry-Go-Round (2002)
- Morning Song (2002)
- Music of the Spheres (2004)
- Navigation Inn
- Once in Royal David’s City (as arranger)
- Orient Express (1987)
- Out of the Darkness, Into the Light
- Overture for Woodwinds (2000)
- Panis Angelicus (as arranger) (1872/2001)
- Pantomime (1988/1996)
- Pastime with Good Company (as arranger) (15--?/2005)
- Postcard from Singapore (2004)
- Pioneers, The (2005)
- Reflections on an Old Japanese Folk Song (2015)
- Roaring Forties, The (2008)
- Sailing with the Tall Ships (2012)
- Salute to a Hero (2009)
- Scenes from a Comedy
- Shalom! (2001)
- Sierra Nevada (2006)
- Sinfonietta No. 1
- Sinfonietta No. 2
- Sinfonietta No. 3 (2001)
- Sleepers, Awake! (as transcriber)
- Song and Dance (1984)
- Spirit of the Sequoia (2004)
- Strathcarron (2002)
- Suite from Hymn of the Highlands
- The Sun Will Rise Again (2011)
- Sunrise at Angel's Gate (2001)
- Symphonic Metamorphosis (2007)
- Symphony No. 1. See: Earth, Water, Sun, Wind
- Tales of the River Wye (2007)
- Tameside Overture
- Te Deum Prelude (as arranger)
- Ten Chorale Preludes (as arranger) (1914/2002)
- Theatre Music
- Three English Folk Song Miniatures (2013)
- Three Klezmer Miniatures (2009)
- Three Washington Statues (2015)
- To a New Dawn (2000)
- To a Wild Rose (as arranger)
- Trombone Concerto (2007)
- Valerius Variations (2005)
- Victory Fanfare
- A Weekend in New York (2008)
- White Rose, The (2002)
- Wilten Festival Overture
- Winter's Tale, A (2010)
- Year of the Dragon (1984/1985)
- Year of the Dragon (2017 edition) (1984/1985/2017)
- A Yorkshire Overture (1991)
References
None discovered thus far.
