Festival Music (Danyew)

Steve Danyew

General Info

Year: 2020
Duration: c. 1:40
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Steve Danyew
Cost: Score and Parts – Available 2022

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Trumpet I-VI
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Tuba I-II
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum
Suspended Cymbal

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Festival Music was written to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eastman School of Music, which opened its doors in the 1921–22 academic year. The fanfare is inspired by the glorious Eastman Theatre, and more specifically, by a mural titled “Festival Music” by Ezra Winter that is painted on the side of the theatre. Perhaps the most celebratory mural on the theatre walls, it depicts a scene full of music and fanfare with soaring mountains in the background.

One of the most striking features of the mural is a series of three trumpeters playing in the center of the mural, with red flags hanging from their trumpets. These heralding trumpets first drew me to the mural, and so I decided to open the fanfare with just trumpets. In the painting, other brass players and percussionists are seen just beneath the trumpeters, and in the music, these players enter shortly after the trumpets introduce a key motive of the work.

The music is dedicated to the Eastman School of Music -- to George Eastman and Ezra Winter and the many individuals that helped in ways large and small to build the school. It is also dedicated to the many faculty and staff who have made it a place where the music continues to thrive, and where young people like myself dream of coming and being a part of the historic legacy. Meliora!

- Program Note by composer

Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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University of Delaware (Newark) Wind Ensemble (Lauren Reynolds, conductor) - 13 October 2021
Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Mark Scatterday, conductor) - 25 August 2021
Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Mark Scatterday, conductor) - 19 February 2021 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Canon Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
The Lost City of Tryon (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
Three Fugues by J.S. Bach (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Fugue No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Fugue No. 16 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Fugue No. 23 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
Three Spirituals (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Down by the Riverside (Flex instrumentation) (as adapter; arr. Burleigh) (1922/2020)
- Deep River (Flex instrumentation) (as adapter; arr. Burleigh) (1917/2020)
- I Want to Be Ready (Flex instrumentation) (as adapter; arr. Burleigh) (1917/2020)
Three Tallis Melodies (Adaptable Band) (as arranger) (2020)

All Wind Works

Adagietto (2014)
Alcott Songs (2015)
Amazing Grace (2020)
American Nocturne (2021)
Canon Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
Distant Moons
Entrata (2019)
Festival Music (2020)
Flash Back
For This Brave New Day (2020)
Fugue No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
Fugue No. 16 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
Fugue No. 23 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
Goodnight, Goodnight (2010)
Green Diamond (2018)
An Hour of Hallowed Peace (2016/2019)
Into the Silent Land (2018)
Journeys
Lamentation for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble (2019)
Lauda (2009)
The Lost City of Tryon (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
Magnolia Star (2012)
Montis Dei. See: Lauda
Mountainscape (2012)
River Town Jubilee (2015)
The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2011)
This World Alive (2013)
Three Fugues by J.S. Bach (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Fugue No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Fugue No. 16 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Fugue No. 23 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
Three Scenes from Home (2017)
Three Spirituals (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1722/2020)
- Down by the Riverside (Flex instrumentation) (as adapter; arr. Burleigh) (1922/2020)
- Deep River (Flex instrumentation) (as adapter; arr. Burleigh) (1917/2020)
- I Want to Be Ready (Flex instrumentation) (as adapter; arr. Burleigh) (1917/2020)
Third Mode Melody (2020)
Three Tallis Melodies (Adaptable Band) (as arranger) (2020)
Vermont State Fair (2015)
Winter Song (2018)

Resources

Seghatoleslami, Mona. "A Festival Fanfare for Eastman." Classical 91.5, 28 May, 2020. Web. Accessed 18 February 2021
Steve Danyew, personal correspondence, February 2021
Steve Danyew website Accessed 18 February 2021