As All the Heavens Were a Bell

Jay Bocook

Jay Bocook

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Subtitle: For Concert Band and Optional Chorus

General Info

Year: 2002
Duration: c. 5:15
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00   |   Score Only (print) - $10.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba/String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III

(percussion detail desired)

SATB Choir (optional)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This immensely moving work was premiered at an emotional performance for the firefighters of Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The composition opens with a striking brass fanfare and woodwind flourishes. After a sensitive treatment of the tune America, the strife of a nation in turmoil is depicted through intense themes which eventually evolve into a unified tutti statement that is truly magnificent.

- Program Note from publisher

Commissioned by the Waukegan (Ill.) High School Music Department, Terry Grossberg, Ben Holbrook, Bart Medicott and Jen Wagner, directors.

- Program Note from score

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Tennessee: V

Performances

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• Padua Franciscan High School (Parma, Ohio) Symphonic Band (Mark Wozniak, conductor; Padua Franciscan Chorale) - 25 January 2020 (Severance Hall, Cleveland)
• Wilson (N.C.) All-County Honors Band (Hosea Brower, conductor) – 18 November 2017

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Aztec Fire (Flex instrumentation) (2003)
• Gap Creek (Flex instrumentation) (2000)
• The Liberty Bell (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1893/2011)
• Nimrod (Flex Instrumentation) (as arranger) (1899/2011)
• The North Face (Flex instrumentation) (1999/2021)
• Shackelford Banks (Flex instrumentation) (2003)
• The Thunderer (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1889/2010)

All Wind Works

• 76 Trombones (arr. Anderson; as adapter) (1997)
• Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (as arranger) (1967/2004)
• America's Finest (1991)
• As All the Heavens Were a Bell (2002)
• At Dawn They Slept (2010)
• Avatar Soundtrack Highlights (as arranger) (2009/2010)
• Aztec Fire (Flex instrumentation) (2003)
• Battle Cry of Freedom, The (as arranger) (1862/2001)
• The Beatles: Love (as arranger) (2008)
• Beauty and the Beast (as arranger) (1992/2017)
• The Blues Brothers Revue (as arranger) (2004)
• Bolero (as arranger) (1928/2003)
• Boy's Dream, A (2007)
• The British Are Coming! (as arranger) (2006)
• Carnival of the Animals, The (as arranger) (1886/2006)
• Catch Me If You Can (as arranger) (2011)
• Chariots of Fire (as arranger) (1983)
• Concert Suite from "Dances with Wolves" (as arranger) (1991)
• The Cowboys (as arranger) (Grade III) (1972)
• The Cowboys (as arranger) (Grade V) (1972/2007)
• Crown Imperial (as arranger) (1937/1998)
• Danse Bacchanale (as arranger) (1877/2004)
• Danzón (as arranger) (1944/1990)
• Dartmoor, 1912 (as arranger) (2011)
• Defying Gravity (as arranger) (2003/2010)
• Dies Irae (as arranger) (1874/1998)
• Down in the River (2017)
• Dream On (as arranger) (1973/2011)
• Fanfare and Hymn of Brotherhood (1982/2004)
• Fanfare and Hymn: A Mighty Fortress (as arranger) (1529/1991)
• Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (as arranger) (1910/2006)
• Film Score Classics (as arranger) (1990)
• Firebird Excerpts (as arranger) (1910/1995)
• Freedom (as arranger) (2000/2002)
• Game of Thrones (as arranger) (2018)
• Gap Creek (Flex instrumentation) (2000)
• Glee Showstoppers (as arranger) (2010)
• Gloriana (2015)
• Go the Distance (as arranger) (1997)
• Granada (as arranger) (1932/1998)
• Head Rush (2015)
• Hey Jude (as arranger) (1968/1992)
• Hunger Games (as arranger) (2012)
• Into the Light (1996)
• The Invincible Eagle (as arranger) (1901/2004)
• Jekyll & Hyde (as arranger) (c. 1990/1998)
• Jingle Bells - Jolly Old St Nick (as arranger) (1857/2002)
• John Williams Swings (as arranger) (2011)
• Juba Dance (as arranger) (1932/2022)
• Kirkpatrick's Muse (2017)
• Legacy of Honor (2013)
• The Liberty Bell (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1893/2011)
• Liberty Fanfare (as arranger) (1986/2010)
• Lincoln (as arranger) (2013)
• Liquid (2019)
• Little Mermaid, The (as arranger) (1990)
• Lost Mountain (2008)
• Mars (as arranger) (1916/1998)
• Maverick (2020)
• Miss Saigon Selections (as arranger)
• Music from "Mission: Impossible" (as arranger) (1996)
• Music from "The Incredibles" (as arranger) (2004/2006)
• Nessun Dorma (as arranger) (1926/2003)
• Nimrod (Flex Instrumentation) (as arranger) (1899/2011)
• The North Face (Flex instrumentation) (1999/2021)
• O Waly, Waly (2011)
• Olympic Spirit, The (as transcriber) (1988/1996)
• Out of Sea and the Shark Cage Fugue (as arranger) (1975/2011)
• Out of This World (as arranger) (1999)
• Pearl Harbor Soundtrack Highlights (as arranger) (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (as arranger) (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (as arranger) (2007)
• Prince of Egypt, The (as arranger, with Zimmer) (1998/1999)
• Procession of the Nobles (arr Bocook) (as arranger)
• Queen in Concert
• The Rebellion Is Reborn (as arranger) (2017)
• Ritual Fire Dance (as arranger) (2001)
• Robin Hood (as arranger) (1991)
• Roll Tide (as arranger)
• Russian Easter Overture (as arranger) (1888/2000)
• Sacred Harp (2013)
• Scheherazade (as transcriber) (1888/2006)
• Scherzo from "Symphony No. 9" (as arranger) (1824/2004)
• Selections from "Moana" (as arranger) (2016/2017)
• Selections from "Wicked" (as arranger) (2004)
• Shackelford Banks (2003)
• Shackelford Banks (Flex instrumentation) (2003)
• Skyfall (as arranger) (2012/2013)
• Somewhere from "West Side Story" (as arranger)
• Soundtrack Highlights from Les Misérables (as arranger) (1980/2013)
• Star Trek: The Inner Light (as arranger) (1995)
• Sweet Georgia Brown (arr. Bocook) (1925)
• Symphonic Suite from "Jurassic World" (as arranger) (2015/2017)
• Symphonic Suite from "On the Waterfront" (as arranger) (1954/2011)
• Symphonic Suite from "Star Trek" (as arranger) (2009)
• Symphonic Suite from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (arr Bocook) (as arranger) (2016)
• Symphony No. 5, Mvmt IV (as transcriber) (1937/2005)
• Theme from "Blazing Saddles" (as arranger) (1983)
• Thriller (as arranger) (1982/2009)
• The Thunderer (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1889/2010)
• Titan Spirit (as arranger) (2000/2009)
• Trooper Salute (as arranger with Reese) (2015)
• Uptown Funk! (as arranger) (2014)
• Vallum Hadriani (2022)
• Vaquero (as arranger) (1967)
• Viper (2010)
• The Washington Post (as arranger) (1889/2010)
• West Side Story: Medley (as arranger) (1957/1991)
• Who's That Masked Man? (as arranger) (2007)
• Young Person's Guide to John Williams (as arranger) (1991)

Resources

• Bocook, J. (2002). As All The Heavens Were a Bell : For Concert Band and Optional Chorus [score]. MusicWorks: Milwaukee, Wisc.