Awakening Hour, The
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Atherton Hill Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $250.00; (digital) - $200.00 | Score Only (print) - $75.00; (digital) - $50.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II-III
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
C Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
String Bass I-II (amplified)
Piano (amplified)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Tam-Tam, large
- Timbales
- Tom-Tom (4)
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The title for the work is drawn from Thoreau's Walden: “The morning, which is the most memorable season of the year, is the awakening hour.” As Thoreau remarks, “The morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."
- Program Note from publisher
For Jeffrey Renshaw, with support from the University of Connecticut and the Jeffrey H. Renshaw Fund for New Music.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Depaul University (Chicago, Ill.) Wind Ensemble (Erica Neidlinger, conductor) – 21 February 2020 (CBDNA 2020 North Central Division Conference, Chicago, Ill.)
- Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Orchestra (Mark Scatterday, conductor) – 17 February 2020
- Arkansas State University (Jonesboro) Wind Ensemble (Timothy Oliver, conductor) – 21 November 2019
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) Symphonic Winds (Kelvin Jones, conductor) – 15 October 2019
- United States Coast Guard Band (New London, Conn.) (Richard Wyman, conductor) – 15 April 2018
- University of Connecticut (Storrs) Wind Ensemble - 30 November 2017 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- ...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)
- The Awakening Hour (2017)
- Beyond Autumn (tr. Miles) (2006)
- Concerto for Percussion (tr. Boysen Jr.) (1997)
- From a Dark Millennium (1980)
- In evening's stillness... (1996)
- Luminosity: Concerto for Wind Orchestra (2015)
- Music of Amber (1981)
- New Morning for the World (tr. Pilato) (1982/2007)
- Recoil (2004)
- Sparrows (1979)
Resources
- Glaser, Kyle R. "The Awakening Hour." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 12, Compiled and edited by Andrew Trachsel, 904-911. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2021.
- Joseph Schwantner website Accessed 15 April 2018
- Perusal score
- Schwantner, J. (2017). The Awakening Hour: Score in C [score]. Atherton Hill Press: [Spofford, N.H.].