May the Road Rise Up to Meet You

Dana Wilson

Dana Wilson

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General Info

Year: 2013 / 2019
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Choir
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

I've always loved the text commonly known as "An Irish Blessing". A few years ago, I set text for SATB chorus, and here have transformed it for band. It is designed to be a gentle meditation on the road rising to meet you and the elements supporting you in life:

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

- Program Note by composer

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

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Performances

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• Ithaca (N.Y.) College Wind Ensemble (Christopher Hughes, conductor) – 15 October 2019 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by this Composer

A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:

• Avatar, The (2005)
• Awakening... (2011)
• The Banquet (2017)
• Black Nightshade (2004)
• Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
• Clarion Call (1988)
• Colorado Peaks (2009)
• Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
• Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
• Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
• Concerto for Trombone (2015)
• Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
• Conjurer, The (2015)
• Dance of the New World (1992)
• Day Dreams (2006)
• Evolution (1999)
• Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
• Fanfare for Karel (2017)
• Footsteps (2010)
• Front Burner (2020)
• How Very Close (2012)
• Io Rising
• Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
• Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
• Leader Lieder (1993)
• Liquid Ebony (2006)
• Liquid Gold (2005)
• May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (2013/2019)
• Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
• Old Number One (2017)
• On Fire! (2017)
• Piece of Mind (1987)
• Quintessence (2019)
• Sang! (1993)
• Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
• Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
• Shortcut Home (2003)
• Speak to Me (2010)
• ...the harder they fall (2004)
• Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
• To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
• Uprising (1995)
• Vortex (1999)
• When I Am Gone Away (2006)

Resources

• Dana Wilson website Accessed 15 October 2019