Fanfare on "Amazing Grace"
Adolphus Hailstork (trans. Donald Patterson)
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General Info
Year: 2003 / 2021
Duration: c. 3:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: U.S. Marine Band
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
On today’s date in 1875 [24 September] one of the greatest musical match-makers of all time died in Spartanburg, South Carolina. His name was William Walker, an American Baptist shape-note singing master, who published several collections of traditional shape note tunes. Now, “shape note” refers to a simple musical notation designed for communal singing, and in his 1835 collection entitled Southern Harmony, Walker married a shape-note tune known as New Britain to a hymn text titled Amazing Grace written by an Anglican clergyman and abolitionist named John Newton. Walker’s collection was a best-seller in the 19th century, and two centuries later, Amazing Grace has become one of the best-known and best-loved hymns of our time.
In 2011 a new orchestral fanfare based on “Amazing Grace” by the African-American composer Adolphus Hailstork was published and subsequently recorded by the Virginia Symphony -- appropriately enough, since Hailstork has served as professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at both Virginia's Norfolk State and Old Dominion Universities, and in 1992 was named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. I
- Program Note from Composers Datebook
The fanfare was transcribed by Donald Patterson, chief arranger for the U.S. Marine Band.
Media
- Audio: Reference recording (orchestral version). Virginia Symphony Orchestra (JoAnn Falletta, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Florida (Gainesville) Symphonic Band (John M. Watkins, Jr., conductor) - 9 February 2023
- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Symphony (Ryan Kelly, conductor) – 6 April 2022
- United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C.) (Jason K. Fettig, conductor) – 20 January 2021 (Presidential Inauguration)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- An American Fanfare
- American Guernica (1982/2008)
- American Guenica (ed. Levine) (1982/2021)
- An American Port of Call (arr. Johnson) (1985/2022)
- And Deliver Us from Evil
- Celebration! (1975/2019)
- Fanfare on "Amazing Grace" (tr. Patterson) (2011/)
- New Wade'n Water (2000)
- Norfolk Pride
- Out of the Depths (1974)
- Queen Ceremonial
- Scherzo from "Symphony No. 3" (tr. Cannon) (2003/)
- Spiritual (1984)
- Starburst
Resources
- Adolphus Hailstork website Accessed 18 January 2021
- "Adolphus Hailstork's Amazing Grace." Composers Datebook. Web. ccessed 18 January 2021