Castle Creek

Dan Welcher

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 needed)

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 by publisher

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• University of Texas (Austin) Wind Symphony (Scott Hanna, conductor) – 16 November 2016

Works for Winds by this Composer

• Arches (1985)
• Castle Creek (1989/2009)
• Downshifting (2014)
• For the Mystic Harmony (2017)
• Glacier (2003)
• 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)
• Minstrels of the Kells (2002)
• 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.