Castle Creek
Dan Welcher (arr. Bissell)
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Subtitle: Fanfare - Overture
General Info
Year: 1989 / 2009
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $217.99 | Score Only (print) - $58.99
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Castle Creek was written by Dan Welcher in celebration of the Aspen Music Festival's 40th anniversary, and served as a special tribute to the Festival's longtime president, Gordon Hardy.
Castle Creek itself is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River on which the Aspen Music Festival campus (as well as Hardy's home) is built. Gordon's initials (G.A.H.) are used as the musical basis for the fanfare, which is centered on the ascending pitches G, A and B, and reflects the upward motion and positivity of the Aspen Music Festival itself.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Symphony (Scott Hanna, conductor) – 16 November 2016
- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Ensemble (Jerry Junkin, conductor) – 24 February 1999 (CBDNA 1999 National Conference, Austin, Tx.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Arches (1985)
- Castle Creek (1989/2009)
- Circular Marches. See: Symphony No. 3, "Shaker Life"
- Downshifting (2014)
- For the Mystic Harmony (2017)
- Glacier (2003)
- Hauntings (1986)
- Laboring Songs. See: Symphony No. 3, "Shaker Life"
- Minstrels of the Kells (2002)
- Perpetual Song (2008)
- Songs Without Words (2001/2007)
- Spumante (1998/1999)
- Symphony No. 3, "Shaker Life" (1997)
- Laboring Songs
- Circular Marches (1997)
- Symphony No. 4, "American Visionary" (2005)
- Symphony No. 6, "Three Places in the East" (2017)
- Upriver (2011)
- The Yellowstone Fires (1998)
- Zion (1994)
Resources
- Welcher, D.; Bissell, P. (2009). Castle Creek : Fanfare-Overture [score]. T. Presser: King of Prussia, Penn.