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Fanfare for Uncommon Times
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Valerie Coleman
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - Rental
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Marimba
- Ride Cymbal (large)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
We are going through some strange times right now,” says Valerie Coleman, so “it almost seems sarcastic ... to write a fanfare for the times we are currently living in.” But her work Fanfare for Uncommon Times is anything but sarcastic. “I wanted to create a piece that brings people together,” she continues, “a piece that touches that within us, that thing that wants to survive ... that gives us that regenerative, renewable hope.” As a Black woman, she also sought to “bring the Black experience in,” including the “turmoil, the upheaval,” of today’s conversation of race in America.
- Program Note by Mark Bilyeu for the University of Texas Wind Ensemble concert program, 24 October 2021
Fanfare for Uncommon Times was commissioned by Orchestra of St. Luke's and was premiered by Orchestra of St Luke's on June 27th, 2021, at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Northern Colorado (Greeley) Wind Ensemble (Wesley Broadnax, conductor) - 17 February 2022
- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Ensemble (Jerry Junkin, conductor) - 24 October 2021
- Orchestra of St Luke's (Katonah, N.Y.) (Tito Muñoz, conductor) – 27 June 2021 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Arabia (2013)
- Fanfare for Uncommon Times (2021)
- Let Woman Choose Her Sphere (2020)
- Red Clay and Mississippi Delta (2009)
- Roma (2011)
- Tzigane (2011)
- Umoja (2008)
Resources
- "Behind the Music: Coleman's Fanfare for Uncommon Times." YouTube. NewHavenSymphony, 30 September 2021. Accessed 22 October 2021
- Perusal score
- Schuman, Kathy. " Caramoor Conversations: Valerie Coleman, composer." YouTube. Caramoor, 22 June 2021. Accessed 22 October 2021
- Valerie Coleman website Accessed 22 October 2021