Chase, The

David Holsinger

David Holsinger

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General Info

Year: 2003
Duration: c. 5:25
Difficulty: IV 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $90.00   |   Score Only - $10.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
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
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV

(percussion detail desired)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Commissioned by the Jackson, Missouri, High School Symphonic Band, Pat Schwent, Scott Vangilder and Tom Broussard, Directors.

- Program Note from score

In his 1829 inaugural address, President Andrew Jackson set forth a policy to relocate eastern Indians. In 1830 it was endorsed when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, and from then till 1850 about 100,000 American Indians living from Michigan to Louisiana and Florida moved west, driven by the U.S. Army. Conditions were brutal from the beginning, as an estimated 3500 Creeks died in Alabama alone, being transported in chains from their homeland.

In December of 1835, the U.S. government coerced a small group of Cherokee to sign the Treaty of New Echota, which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the U.S. More than 15,000 Cherokee protested the illegal treaty, and yet it was ratified in May, 1836, by the U.S. Senate by one vote. In May, 1838, federal troops and state militias began the roundup of the Cherokee into "Cherokee removal forts". In spite of warnings to troops to treat the Cherokee kindly, the roundup proved harrowing. Families were separated, the elderly and ill forced out at gunpoint, people given only moments to collect cherished possessions. White looters followed, ransacking homesteads as Cherokees were led away. Conditions at these stockades were horrible. Food intended for the tribe was sold to locals. What little the Cherokees had brought with them was stolen and sold. Men were beaten daily, and the women and children repeatedly violated. Over the winter, 17,000 Cherokee were force-marched westward. Two-thirds of the ill-equipped Indians were trapped between the icebound Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during January. By March, 1839, all the survivors had arrived in the West. Over 4000 had died, nearly a fifth of the Cherokee population, from hunger, exposure, and disease.

About 1000 Cherokee escaped during the removal. They were pursued but never captured, and they gained recognition in 1866, establishing their tribal government in North Carolina. They are known as the Eastern Band. This composition celebrates their escape.

- Program Note from publisher

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Messiah College Wind Ensemble (William Stommen, conductor)

State Ratings

• Kansas: IV

Performances

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• Reedley (Calif.) High School Symphonic Band (Daniel Paulsen, conductor) - 20 March 2015 (2015 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
• Andalusia (Ala.) High School Symphonic Band - 6 March 2013

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
• Adagio (2000)
• The Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman! (2014)
• American Faces (1996)
• Ancient Dances (2020)
• The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf (1981)
• Army Ants March and Boogie (2005)
• At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
• Ballet Exaltare (1999)
• Ballet Sacra (1990)
• Battle Music (1990)
• A Call to Celebration (2012)
• Canticles! (2001)
• The Case of the Mysterious Stranger (1990)
• The Chase (2003)
• A Childhood Hymn (as arranger) (1862/1991)
• City Symphony
  • Cityscape I (Festive Hours Neon Night) (2001)
  • Cityscape II (Lonely Hours Anguished Night) (2004)
  • Cityscape III (Morning Hours Salvation Light) (2008)
• The Cluster Bluster Fluster March (1991)
• Connacht Rhapsody (2017)
• Consider the Uncommon Man (1992)
• Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
• Deerpath Dances (1996)
• Divertimented Dances (2006)
• The Easter Symphony (1986-1997)
• Elegy on an American Folk Tune (2006)
• Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
• Every Morning New (2002)
• Falcon Attack! (2002)
• Fanfare for Brass and Timpani (2003)
• Fanfare for Such a Time as This (2007)
• Fanfare for the Glorious Naycart (2001)
• Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
• Fantasy on Old Hundred (2019)
• Festiva Jubiloso (2000)
• Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
• Fort Canterbury March (1989)
• The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron (1988)
• Gears Pulleys Chains (2006)
• Gmyway’s Revenge! (1994)
• Graysondance (1993)
• Gypsydance (1994)
• Havendance (1985)
• The Helm Toccata (1991)
• Hero Music (2005)
• Homage: Three Tapestries (1999)
• Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
• If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else (1990)
• In Praise of Gentle Pioneers (1996)
• In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
• A Jolly Walk in Hibbertland (1991)
• Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
• Kansas City Dances (1978)
• L'Arco della Vita (2021)
• Lake Canterbury Regatta (1993)
• Last Run (2020)
• A Little Adventure Music (2002)
• Little Fantasy on an American Hymn (2009)
• A Little Mystery Music (1996)
• Liturgical Dances (1984)
• The Maelstrom (2009)
• The March of the Combat Patrol (1991)
• March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
• March on a Russian Hymnsong (2003)
• Mobbusters! (1994)
• Nilesdance (1987)
• On a Childhood Sunday Song (2004)
• On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989)
• On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowry (1993)
• On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
• On an American Spiritual (1991)
• On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances (1988)
• On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon (1999)
• On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
• On the Overland Stage to El Paso (2006)
• One Day in a Small Town (2004)
• Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince (2009)
• Partita Allegro (1997)
• The Peasant Village Dance (1990)
• Praises! (2001)
• Prairie Dances (1998)
• Prelude and Presto (2018)
• Prelude and Rondo (1976)
• The Pride of Buxmont (2000)
• Providence Unfinished (2002)
• Quiet River (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
• Riding With the Frontier Battalion (2000)
• Scaling the North Wall (1990)
• Scootin’ on Hardrock (1999)
• Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary (1981)
• Sinfonia Voci (1993)
• Solemn Hymn & Rowdy Dance (2010)
• Soliloquy (2020)
• Some Give All (2016)
• A Song of Moses (1999)
• Summer to Fall: A Love Song (2006)
• Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
• Symphonic Movement (2000)
• Texas Promenade (1999
• Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword (2004)
• To Live a Life Triumphant (2007)
• To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
• Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March (1994)
• The War Trilogy: 1971 (1999)
• The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
• Zinphonia (2017)

Resources

• David Holsinger website Accessed 29 August 2021