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Day Dreams
General Info
Year: 2006
Duration: c. 17:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00 | Score Only (print) - $50.00
Movements
1. Sunrise - An Infinite Expectation – 3:05
2. Morning - All Intelligence Awake – 3:50
3. Afternoon - Hopes Shot Upward, Ever So Bright – 3:25
4. Sunset - Having Lived the Life Imagined – 7:05
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe
Bassoon
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 I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Bongos
- China Cymbals
- Conga
- Guiro
- Maracas
- Marimba
- Orchestra Chimes
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Vibra-slap
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This work was commissioned in honor of the 75th birthday of the wonderful conductor Frank Battisti. It is based entirely on the musical pitches extracted from his name (FFrAAnk BABAttisti), forming the musical motive F A B A.
In order to recognize the arc of his life and career, Day Dreams traces a metaphorical day. The movement titles all come from Thoreau's Walden, a place very close to where Frank spent a good part of his life. The work begins with a dramatic sunrise. The second movement represents morning (or youth), and juxtaposes two extremely contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable types of material, typical of that stage of life. The third movement explores the afternoon (adulthood), a period of sophisticated balancing of life's many forces. The final movement is a sunset, with each individual player saying goodbye...
- Program Note from publisher
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: North Texas Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) - 2008
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (Brian Messier, conductor) – 10 May 2019
- University of Illinois (Champaign) Wind Orchestra (Beth Peterson, conductor) – 25 February 2018
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band (Courtney Snyder, conductor) – 10 February 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 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)
- Old Number One (2017)
- On Fire! (2017)
- 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)
- Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
- To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
- Uprising (1995)
- Vortex (1999)
- When I Am Gone Away (2006)
Resources
- Dana Wilson website Accessed 26 January 2016