Border Dance

Jack Stamp

Jack Stamp

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General Info

Year: 2021
Duration: c. 4:10
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Both Stranger at My Door (2021) and Border Dance (2021) are written in memory of Peg Bowden, an active member of the Green Valley [Arizona] Concert Band. Peg was band president for two years and even performed as a timpani soloist with the band. Peg was also an excellent pianist, visual artist, author, and humanitarian, as well as having a career in nursing. In the last year of her life, she enjoyed playing music with conductor/ director John Snavely in a small Tubac café.

Peg was active in the Samaritans group which assists migrants in many ways, including providing food, shelter, clothing, and medical assistance at the Comedor in Nogales, Sonora. One Christmas Eve, she encountered a migrant near death asking for assistance at her home in the hills of eastern Rio Rico. The migrant’s “coyote” (a person who is paid to help guide or smuggle migrants across the border) had stolen his money and stranded him without transportation. Peg and her husband, Lester Weil, gave the migrant food and shelter. The migrant turned himself in to border patrol and eventually returned to South America. Peg co-authored a book about this migrant called Stranger at My Door. Stamp’s piece Stranger at My Door attempts to depict Peg’s humanitarian efforts, and Border Dance is a celebration of her incredible life of giving.

- Program Note by composer

Media

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State Ratings

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Performances

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• University of North Texas (Denton) Wind Orchestra (Andrew Trachsel, conductor) - 8 February 2022
• Green Valley (Ariz.) Concert Band (John Snavely, conductor) – 30 January 2022 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)

All Wind Works

• AirLink (2009)
• Aloft! (1997)
• Antithigram (1977/1988)
• As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
• Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
• Bandancing (2004)
• Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
• The Beltway Jam (2006)
• Border Dance (2021)
• Cage Dance (2020)
• Capriccio (2023)
• Cenotaph (1992)
• Cheers! (1995)
• Chorale and Toccata (1993)
• Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
• Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
• Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
• Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
• Divertimento in F (1995)
• Down East Fanfare (2003)
• Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
• Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
• Encomium (2022)
• Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
• Escapade (2007)
• Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
• Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
• Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
• Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
• Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
• Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
• Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
• The Final Beguine (2018)
• Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
• Forefathers
• Four Maryland Songs (2000)
• Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
• Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
• I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
• In Final Obedience (1994)
• In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
• In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
• Iridium
• Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
• Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
• Miniature Overture (2010)
• No Brief Candle (2019)
• Panhandle Prelude (2013)
• Parkway Jam Fanfare
• Past the Equinox
• Pastime (1999)
• Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
• Prayer and Jubilation
• Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
• Psalm 150 (2013)
• Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
• Repetend
• Ricercare (2001)
• Rondeau
• Rondo alla BCP (2023)
• San Luis Snapshots (2016)
• Scenes from Terezin (2009)
• Skyline
• A Song of Hope (2013)
• Southpaw (2014)
• The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
• Stranger at My Door (2021)
• Symphony No. 1 (2006)
• Three Places in England
• Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
• Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
• Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
• With Trump and Wing

Resources

• Jack Stamp website Accessed 9 February 2022