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Conjurer, The
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Subtitle: Concerto for Flute and Chamber Winds
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 16:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Flute with chamber ensemble
Publisher: Dana Wilson
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $165.00 | Score Only (print) - $35.00
Movements
1. - 6:05
2. - 8:05
3. - 2:15
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone
String Bass
Piano
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Conjurer is inspired by the world’s shamanic traditions. The piece is ritualistic, while not trying to replicate any particular tradition.
A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and the Americas. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practice divination and healing. “Conjurer" is the related English term (originating in middle English: “con” (“with”) + “jurare” (“law”)--a person who has the power to solemnly call upon spirits by invocation or spell.
The flutist in this piece is the conjurer, who in the first movement calls forth the spirits. As they emerge, the spirits begin a ritualistic dance, hesitant at first but then ever more intensely, as the flute’s conjuring commands. Finally, the conjurer departs, having accomplished both exorcism and ablution.
Commissioned by a consortium of flutists and wind ensembles, premiered by flutist Gabe Southard, April, 2015.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Illinois (Champaign) Wind Symphony (Stephen G. Peterson, conductor; Jonathan Keeble, flute) – 3 May 2017
- Northwestern University ensemble (Joseph M. Bello, conductor; Alexandria Hoffman, flute) – 14 January 2016
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)
Resources
None discovered thus far.