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American Tapestry, An
Subtitle: A Setting of Three American Folk Songs for Chamber Winds
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 7:35
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00; (digital) - $95.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F I-II
Trombone
Tuba
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A creative setting of three familiar American folk songs: The Girl I Left Behind Me, He’s Gone Away and Ol’ Dan Tucker, this wonderful one-movement work for chamber winds is at times playful, tender and dance-like.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Atlantic Chamber Winds - 2012
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of North Dakota (Grand Forks) Chamber Players (James Popejoy, conductor) - 26 April 2022
- University of Central Florida (Orlando) Symphonic Band (Danny Santos, conductor) - 29 October 2020
- Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Chamber Winds (Craig V. Hamilton, conductor) – 21 October 2019
- Northwest Wind Symphony (Centralia, Wash.) (Dan Schmidt, conductor) – 13 April 2019
- Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, Ohio) Chamber Winds (Brendan Caldwell, conductor) – 18 November 2016
- University of Wisconsin-Superior Chamber Wind Ensemble (Pamela Bustos, conductor) – Spring 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alyeska: The Great Land
- An American Jubilee
- An American Tapestry (2003)
- Fantasia Variations on "Eternal Alleluias" (1995)
- Galop (2015)
- The Groundhog's Lament (2004)
- A Halama Christmas (2004)
- The Jig Is Up (2003)
- March Emeritus
- Metamorphosis (1986/2005)
- Overture from "Yankee Doodling"
- Promenade and Galop
- Sea Creatures
- Streets of Honor
- There Was a Composer of Genius
- The Vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro
- A Visit With Old Joe
- Yankee Doodling (1997)
Resources
- Daniel Kallman website Accessed 18 October 2016
- Kallman, D. (2004). An American Tapestry : A Setting of Three American Folk Songs for Chamber Winds [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: New York.
- Norman, Mark A.. "An American Tapestry." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 515-522. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.