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Concerto for Tuba (Wilson)
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General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 16:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Dana Wilson
Cost: Score and Parts - $135.00 | Score Only - $40.00
Movements
1. Freely - Steady - 5:40
2. Plaintively Singing - 5:12
3. Strict Time - 5:40
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
So many of the traditional works featuring the tuba emphasize its humorous and very low capabilities. In recent decades, performers and their corresponding literature have featured the lyrical, mid-range warmth of the instrument. Concerto for Tuba certainly draws upon this latter evolution, but is also designed to exhibit the many dramatic and virtuosic abilities of the great contemporary tuba soloists by placing the soloist in three very distinct musical settings, one in each movement. The movements are linked by common thematic material in order to create an organic whole.
Concerto for Tuba was commissioned by twenty-seven ensembles across the country. It was given its premiere by tubist Aaron Tindall and the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, who also recorded the work. It was given its European premiere by Dr. Tindall in Linz, Austria.
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Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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- University of West Georgia (Carrollton) Wind Ensemble (Josh Byrd, conductor; Luke Bass, tuba) - 22 November 2018
- University of Southern California Thornton Wind Ensemble (H. Robert Reynolds, conductor; Brandon Davis, tuba) - 12 April 2015
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania Wind Ensemble (Jason Worzbyt, conductor; Zach Collins, tuba) - 1 March 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:
- Avatar, The (2005)
- Awakening... (2011)
- The Banquet (2017)
- Black Nightshade (2004)
- Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
- Clarion Call (1988)
- Colorado Peaks (2009)
- Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
- Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble (2021)
- Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
- Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
- Concerto for Trombone (2015)
- Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
- Conjurer, The (2015)
- Dance of the New World (1992)
- Day Dreams (2006)
- Evolution (1999)
- Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
- Fanfare for Karel (2017)
- Footsteps (2010)
- Front Burner (2020)
- How Very Close (2012)
- Io Rising
- Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
- Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
- Leader Lieder (1993)
- Liquid Ebony (2006)
- Liquid Gold (2005)
- May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (2013/2019)
- Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
- Of my dream before me... (2021)
- Old Number One (2017)
- On Fire! (2017)
- The One-Lady Band from Owego (2021)
- Piece of Mind (1987)
- Primal Worlds (2000)
- Quintessence (2019)
- Sang! (1993)
- Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
- Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
- Shortcut Home (2003)
- Speak to Me (2010)
- ...the harder they fall (2004)
- the most sacred of times (2022)
- Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
- To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
- Uprising (1995)
- Vortex (1999)
- When I Am Gone Away (2006)
- Winds on the Steppes (1994)