Kaintuck'
William Grant Still (trans. Dana Paul Perna)
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Subtitle: A Poem for Piano and Band
General Info
Year: 1935 /
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Duet
Publisher: William Grant Still Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $249.50
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
William Grant Still was inspired to write the work after taking a train trip through Kentucky in 1935.
After he wrote Blue Steel, Still received a commission for an instrumental work to be performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Goosens. He responded by producing two works for piano and orchestra, Dismal Swamp and Kaintuck'. Goosens chose Kaintuck' , and allowed Verna Arvey and another pianist to perform it first on two pianos at a Los Angeles Pro Musica concert. Howard Hanson conducted both works in Rochester.
- Program Note from AfriClassical.com
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Gerard Morris, conductor; Ivan Tarasenkov, piano) – 16 March 2022 (CBDNA 2022 Western/Northwestern Conference, Tacoma, Wash.)
- Little Rock (Ark.) Wind Symphony (Israel Getzov, conductor; Linda Holzer, piano) – 24 February 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Africa: Land of Superstition (arr. Tam)
- Afro-American Symphony for Band (arr. West Point Military Academy) (1930/1970)
- Afro-American Symphony. See also: Symphony No. 1
- Scherzo from "The Afro-American Symphony" (1930/1970)
- The American Scene (1957)
- Choreographic Prelude (arr. Lloyd) (1970)
- Dances in the Canebrakes (as orchestrator; arr. Brown) (1953/)
- Entrances of the Porteuses (arr. Perna; ed. Lloyd)
- Fanfare for American War Heroes (arr. Lloyd) (1942 / )
- Fanfare for the 99th Fighter Squadron
- Folk Suite for Band (1966)
- Frisco Jazz Band Blues (1919)
- From the Delta (1945)
- The Hesitating Blues (as arranger) (1916)
- Kaintuck' (tr. Perna) (1935)
- Land of Peace
- Little Folk Suite from the Western Hemisphere
- Little Red Schoolhouse (arr. Steele) (1957/1977)
- Miniatures (1963)
- Old California
- Rising Tide. See: Victory Tide
- "Scherzo" for Band. See: Afro-American Symphony for Band
- Song of the City. See: Victory Tide
- Summerland: From Three Visions (arr. Teter) (1937/2013)
- Summerland: For Wind Ensemble (arr. Teter) (1937/2013)
- Symphony No. 1 (1931/1946)
- Symphony No. 1. See also: Afro-American Symphony for Band
- To You, America! (1952/1956)
- Victory Tide (1939/1942/1945)
- Wood Notes (arr. Mauldin) (1948/1959/2022)
Resources
- Dana Paul Perna, personal correspondence, April 2019
- "William Grant Still (1895-1978)." AfriClassical.com. Web. Accessed 9 June 2018