I Dream Awake

Giovanni Santos

Giovanni Santos

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Subtitle: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble

General Info

Year: 2022
Duration: c. 15:40
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts - Available June 2023

Movements

1. movement one - 4:25
2. movement two - 2:50
3. movement three - 4:30
4. movement four - 3:25

Instrumentation

(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

I Dream Awake, Concerto for Winds and Alto Saxophone. was inspired by the poem I Dream Awake by Cuban poet José Martí (1853-1895), a politician and revolutionary.

- Program Note from Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble concert program, 23 May 2022

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. MIDI realization

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Kaitlin Bove, conductor; Andrew Harrison, alto saxophone) - 5 October 2023
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (Fred Harris, Jr., conductor; Andy Wilds, alto saxophone) - 22 April 2023
• Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) Wind Orchestra (Ryan Scherber, conductor; Greg Banaszak, alto saxophone) - 21 November 2022
• Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble (Irvine, Calif.) (Gregory X. Whitmore, conductor; Andrew Harrison, alto saxophone) - 23 May 2022 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Aphelion (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Bove) (2020/2021)
• El Zape (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• In Blue or Green (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Jesu dulcis memoria (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• La Moto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Wacyk) (2021)
• Lamento Cubano (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Wacyk) (2021)
• Lost in Tijuana (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Mayagüez (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Rattlesnake Blues (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Ricochet (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Shifting Grounds (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Tumbao de Carlitos (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Zoom Stomp (Flex instrumentation) (2020)

All Wind Works

• The Annapolis Fanfare (2019)
• Aphelion (2020/2022)
• Aphelion (chamber) (2020)
• Aphelion (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Bove) (2020/2021)
• Blue Dances (2018)
• BOOM! (2020)
• Carnarias (2024)
• Chávez 1927 (2022)
• Danzas (2022)
• David's Big Green Caboose (2020)
• Dolores, AmeriCan (2023)
• El Zape. See: Three Latin American Dances
• Fanfare for Peace (2024)
• Fanfarria (2018)
• I Dream Awake (2022)
• In Blue or Green (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• It is our light... (2019)
• Jesu dulcis memoria (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Joy Is a Bird
• Lost in Tijuana (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Mayagüez (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Miniatures (2020)
• Passionately Curious (2019)
• Rattlesnake Blues (2020)
• Reunion (2020)
• Ricochet (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Shifting Grounds (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Three Latin American Dances (2020)
  • La Moto
  • Lamento Cubano
  • El Zape
• Timba (2022)
• Voyages
• Zoom Stomp (Flex instrumentation) (2020)

Resources

• Giovanni Santos website – Accessed 20 May 2022
• "I Dream Awake (from Ismaelillo)." All Poetry. Web. Accessed 20 May 2022