And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest
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General Info
Year: 2000
Duration: c. 5:35
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Plankton Press
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece was written to honor the memory of Stanley D. Hettinger, Director of Bands, University of New Hampshire. The title comes from the famous lines in the Shakespeare tragedy, Hamlet, where Horatio, witnessing the death by poison of Hamlet, "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! Why does the drum come hither?"
Stan Hettinger heard my piece, The Quiet Tear, 1983, and commented on how the ending was "weak" for a memorial piece. I have taken the bulk of that short piece and reworked it, and, in strengthening the ending, reflect the ascending trajectory of the angels that accompany that "sweet prince" to his rest.
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Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Concert Band (Thomas Duffy, conductor) - 24 April 2022
- Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Concert Band (Thomas C. Duffy, conductor) – 17 February 2017
- Keene (N.H.) State College Concert Band (James Chesebrough, conductor) - 7 March 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Scalin' and Wailin' (Flex instrumentation) (2018)
All Wind Works
- A+ (1998)
- And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest (2000)
- Ask the Sky and the Earth (as transcriber) (2009)
- Bell Piece (as editor)
- Butterflies and Bees! (1999)
- Century Shouts (2012)
- Ceremonial March, A
- Corpus Callosum (1999/2003)
- Crystals (1985/1992)
- Gnomon
- I Sing the Body Eclectic (for flute choir)
- I Sit Alone in Martin's Church (1998/2003)
- Little Snakes (in the Lighthouse)
- Max the King
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1992)
- Philosopher's Stone, The
- Pilgrims' Progress (1992)
- Power and Light (2020)
- The Promise of Living (as transcriber) (1954/1956/2000)
- Scalin' and Wailin' (Flex instrumentation) (2018)
- Snakes! (1991)
- Song of Hiawatha (1995)
- Stomp Your Foot (as transcriber) (1954/1956/2000)
- Three Places in New Haven (2001)
- Whispers of the Patriots (1993)
- Zephyrs
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Thomas Duffy." Accessed 17 February 2017