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General Info
Year: 2019
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boss Music Studios
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Hero was commissioned by the Florida Bandmasters Association in memory of Bobby Adams, DMA, who served as director of bands at Stetson University from 1987 until his retirement in 2012, and was inducted in 2005 as a member of both the FBA Hall of Fame and Roll of Distinction.
- Program Note from Stetson University
Defining the magic of achievement is contingent of an understanding of limitation ... Limitations are a major source of human disappointment, frustration, pain, and unhappiness ... life itself is a limitation -- we all die eventually...
To achieve at a high level under these conditions ... a man has what might be called ‘heroic capacity’ that allows for the elevation of ... capabilities far beyond normal levels ... ’to go where no man has gone before’ is the underlying spirit of all great achievements ... made possible because of humankind’s capacity to engage the heroic at will ...
Magic is the triumph over limitation, real or imagined. Magic occurs when the resistance of a limitation that seemingly will not yield, falls to the force of heroic effort ... magic is spirit, will, strength, intelligence, skill, and knowledge focused on the overcoming of limitation. Magic is the sure signal that a barrier has been broken ... the ‘sonic-boom’ of human experience...”
The limitations people face from the cradle to the grave become easier to face when life is enhanced with magical moments.
- Program Note by Bobby Adams from Music, Magic, and Heroes, from the Thirtieth Annual Florida Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame Concert, 18 November 2019
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Stetson University (Deland, Fla.) Symphonic Band (Doug Phillips, conductor) – 24 November 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- À la Machaut (2015)
- Ancestral Rumors (2019)
- Blood Moon Ablaze (2018)
- Hero (2019)
- In Adventu Finalem (2017)
- Millennial Inception
- Moments of Silence (2016)
- Sound Asleep (2017)
- Star Gazing (2017)
- Tetelestai (2014)
- Toward the Hour Arises New Light (2018)
- Until Morning Come (2018)
Resources
- Andrew Boss website Accessed 27 November 2019