Hohner

David Maslanka

David Maslanka

Subtitle: in memoriam Robert Hohner

General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 14:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: David Maslanka, through Mostly Marimba
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00

Instrumentation

• Full Score
• Contra-Bass
• Piano (doubling Maraca)
• Timpani
• Percussion, including:

*Anvil

*Bass Drum (2)

*Bell Plate (or large Bell)

*Chimes

*Crotales

*Gongs (small and medium)

*Hand Bells

*Marimbas (4)

*Orchestra Bells

*Rainstick

*Snare Drums (3: 1 small, 2 regular)

*Suspended Cymbals 4: 1 small, 3 large)

*Tam-tams (4)

*Tenor Drum

*Tom-toms (2)

*Vibraphones (3)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Bob Hohner was one of my closest friends and musical companions. He was one of the very few people I know who didn’t want a recording of music that he was to perform. It was his joy to discover musical sound. It was his insistent and persistent effort with Arcadia II: Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble that rescued this “failed” piece from oblivion, and started a long collaboration between us. I wrote Montana Music: Three Dances for Percussion for him, and then In Lonely Fields for Percussion and Orchestra. He recorded Arcadia II, Montana Music, and Crown of Thorns, and we were started on yet another composing project when he died. That project was to have been a “Symphony for Percussion.” I had a flash vision of a stage full of percussion, a large percussion orchestra – sections of marimbas and vibraphones – and lots of players, and I heard them playing a full-scale symphony.

The project came to a halt with Bob’s death, but I decided for his memorial piece that I would write at least one movement of this work, using all of the percussion forces available at the time at Central Michigan University. It is offered in memory of Bob, whose dedicated life as performer, teacher and friend touched, and continues to touch, many thousands of people.

- Program Note by composer

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. University of Texas Percussion Ensemble (Thomas Burrett, conductor)
• Audio CD: University of Houston Percussion Ensemble (Blake Wilkins, conductor) - 2009

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Singapore Wind Symphony Percussion Ensemble – 1 July 2018

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Alex and the Phantom Band (2002/2015)
• Angel of Mercy (2015)
• California (2016)
• A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)
• Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (1999)
• Concerto for Marimba and Band (1990)
• Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2015)
• Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (1979)
• Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble (2012)
• Concerto No 2 for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (2002)
• Concerto No 3 for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2016)
• Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble (2007)
• Crown of Thorns (1991)
• Desert Roads (2005)
• Fanfare-Variations on the Chorale Melody "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall). See: Recitation Book
• First Light (2016)
• Four Pieces for Band (1980)
• Give Us This Day (2005)
• Golden Light (1990)
• Heart Songs (2001)
• Hell's Gate (1997)
• Hohner (1999)
• Hosannas (2015)
• Husa (2016)
• Hymn for World Peace (2014)
• Illumination (2013)
• In Memoriam (1990)
• Laudamus Te (1995)
• Letter to Martin (2015)
• Liberation (2012)
• Little Concerto (1990)
• Mass (1995/2005)
• Montana Music: Chorale Variations (1993)
• Morning Star (1997)
• Mother Earth (2008)
• Mountain Roads (1997)
• On This Bright Morning (2013)
• Peace (2012)
• Prelude on a Gregorian Tune (1981)
• Procession of the Academics (2008)
• Quintet for Winds Number 2
• Recitation Book (2006)
  • Fanfare-Variations on the Chorale Melody "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall) (2006)
• Remember Me (2013)
• Requiem (2013)
• Rollo Takes a Walk (1980)
• Saint Francis (2015)
• Sea Dreams (1998)
• The Seeker (2016)
• Song at the End of Time
• Songs for the Coming Day (2012)
• Song Book (2001)
• Symphony No. 2 (1987)
• Symphony No. 3 (1991/2007)
• Symphony No. 4 (1993)
• Symphony No. 5 (2000)
• Symphony No. 6 (2004)
• Symphony No 7 (2004)
• Symphony No 8 (2008)
• Symphony No. 9 (2011)
• Symphony No. 10 (2018)
• Tears (1994)
• Testament (2001)
• Traveler (2003)
• A Tuning Piece: Songs of Fall and Winter (1995)
• ufo dreams (1999)
• Unending Stream of Life (2007)
• Variants on a Hymn Tune (1995)

Resources

• David Maslanka website Accessed 31 July 2023
• Maslanka, D. (2004). Hohner: in memoriam Robert Hohner [score]. Keyboard Percussion Publications: Asbury Park, N.J.