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In the Spring At the Time When Kings Go Off to War
Contents
General Info
Year: 1991
Duration: c. 11:42
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $325.00 | Score Only - $45.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Cornets I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Chimes
- Gong
- Marimba
- Orchestra Chimes
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War was commissioned by the Kappa Kappa Psi Chapter at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacadouches, Texas, in 1985. Premiered under the baton of Bandmaster Mel Montgomery in the spring of 1986, the composition was later declared the winner of the 1986 American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award.
The composition is based on I Chronicles 20, verses 1 through 3. This short scripture tells of the gathering of King David’s armies under the command of Joab; the legions attack and siege of the land of the Amonites; the subsequent capture and execution of the Ammonite kings; the plunder and slavery of the surviving foe; and the triumphant return of David’s army to Jerusalem.
Using a variety of musical idioms, from diatonic to “sound mass," aleatoric to measured, vocal to synthetic, the composer has woven a tonal picture of the chaos, pathos, triumph, grief, faith, and tragedy. In short, In the Spring, literally portrays programmatically this Old Testament episode.
- Program Note by Concordia University Wind Symphony
Awards
- American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award, winner, 1986
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Tokyo Geidai Wind Orchestra (Masaharu Yamamoto, conductor) – 2019
- Audio CD: Concordia University Wind Symphony (Richard R. Fischer, conductor)
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class AA
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
- Louisiana: V
- Minnesota: I
- New York: Concert Band VI
- North Carolina: VI
- South Carolina: VI
- Virginia: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Concordia University (Seward, Neb.) Wind Ensemble (Andrew Schultz, conductor) – 1 March 2019
- Hartt School of Music Community Division's Capitol Symphonic Winds (Gary Partridge, conductor) - 7 May 2014
- Matsudo-Daiyon Junior High School (Japan) - October 2013
- "Salesiana del Niño Jesús" Symphonic Band de Bogotá (Colombia) - October 2016
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
- Adagio (2000)
- Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman!, The (2014)
- American Faces (1996)
- Ancient Dances
- Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf, The
- Army Ants March and Boogie
- At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
- Ballet Exaltare
- Ballet Sacra
- Battle Music
- A Call to Celebration (2012)
- Canticles!
- Case of the Mysterious Stranger, The
- Chase, The
- A Childhood Hymn (as arranger) (1862/1991)
- City Symphony
- Cluster Bluster Fluster March, The
- Connacht Rhapsody (2014)
- Consider the Uncommon Man
- Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
- Deerpath Dances
- Divertimented Dances
- The Easter Symphony (2001)
- Elegy on an American Folk Tune
- Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
- Every Morning New
- Falcon Attack!
- Fanfare for Brass and Timpani
- Fanfare for Such a Time as This
- Fanfare for the Glorious NayCart
- Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
- Fantasy on Old Hundred (2018)
- Festiva Jubiloso
- Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
- Fort Canterbury March
- Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron, The (1988)
- Gears Pulleys Chains
- Gmyway’s Revenge!
- Graysondance
- Gypsydance (1994)
- Havendance (1982)
- Helm Toccata
- Hero Music (2005)
- Homage: Three Tapestries
- Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
- If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else
- In Praise of Gentle Pioneers
- In the Spring At the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
- Jolly Walk in Hibbertland, A
- Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
- Kansas City Dances
- Lake Canterbury Regatta
- Last Run
- Little Adventure Music, A
- Little Fantasy on an American Hymn
- Little Mystery Music, A (1996)
- Liturgical Dances (1982)
- Maelstrom, The
- March of the Combat Patrol, The
- March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
- March on a Russian Hymnsong
- Mobbusters!
- Nilesdance
- On a Children's Sunday Song
- On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
- On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1988)
- On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowery
- On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
- On an American Spiritual (1991)
- On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances
- On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon
- On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
- On the Overland Stage to El Paso
- One Day in a Small Town
- Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince
- Partita Allegro
- Peasant Village Dance, The
- Praises! (2001)
- Prairie Dances (1998)
- Prelude and Presto (2018)
- Prelude and Rondo (1976)
- Pride of Buxmont, The
- Providence Unfinished
- Quiet River (2011)
- Reagan of Illinois (2011)
- Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
- Riding With the Frontier Battalion
- Scaling the North Wall
- Scootin’ on Hardrock (1990)
- Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary
- Sinfonia Voci (1993)
- Soliloquy
- Some Give All (2016)
- A Song of Moses
- Summer to Fall: A Love Song
- Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
- Symphonic Movement (Holsinger)
- Texas Promenade
- Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword
- To Live the Life Triumphant
- To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
- Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March
- War Trilogy: 1971, The
- The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
- Zinphonia (2017)
Resources
- David Holsinger website
- Holsinger, D. (1991). In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War: For Symphonic Band [score]. Southern Music: San Antonio, Tex.
