Morning Songs in Hiroshima

Yasuhide Ito

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General Info

Year: 2009
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ito Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

Piccolo
Flutes
Oboes
English Horn
Bassoons
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum
Bell Tree
Chimes (A)
Crash Cymbals
Crotale (E-flat)
Glockenspiel (or Celesta)
Ratchet
Snare Drums (2)
Suspended Cymbal
Tam
Tambourine
Vibraphone (or Celesta)
Wind Chime
Xylophone
Sleigh Bells (2)
Toms (2)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Around 1990 I received a request for a piece about Nagasaki. That city, along with Hiroshima, experienced the horrors of nuclear weapons for the first time in human history. I did not feel I was at a point where I could write about a monumental theme like war. That's how I came to compose Gloriosa ("Gururiyoza"), regarding underground Christianity in the area of Nagasaki.

In 2009, I received a commission from Hiroshima, another city with a terrible atomic war memory. This time for sure I wanted to write about war and peace. I wanted to use all of my heart and soul to create a song of prayers, and to describe the drowning city becoming a symbol of peace, calling it Morning Songs reflecting a "Morning of Peace." It was morning when the bomb hit Hiroshima -- August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m.

The start of the 21st century also saw the September 11 attacks in USA. I began writing many peace-themed works for band and chorus, including the recent The Tale of the Blackened Canteen (opera) that premiered in May 2018.

Morning Song in Hiroshima was commissioned by the Suzugamine Girls High School Wind Orchestra; it premiere on April 26, 2009.

- Program Note by composer

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State Ratings

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Performances

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Unión Musical Santa Cecelia de Villar del Arzobispo (Spain) (Yasuhide Ito, conductor) – 13 July 2019 - WASBE Conference (Buñol, Spain)
Suzugamine Girls High School (Japan) – 26 April 2009 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adagio for Band (2006)
A la Suite Classique (1996)
As Time Is Passing On (2000)
Carmen Fantasy (as arranger) (1875/2009)
Choral Fantasy
Cioccolata d'amore
Concertino for piano and band (Ito) (2007)
Concerto for Tsugaru-Shamisen and Band (2013)
Diferencias on an Old Spanish Song (2020)
Evocation (Ito)
Fanfares for National Athletic Meet at Fukushima
Fantasia Classica (1992)
Fantasia on a Bach Chorale Prelude (2002/2013)
Fantasy Variations (2004/2012)
Festal Ballade for Band (2016)
Festal Scenes (1986)
Festeggiamo e Cantiamo, Musica Festiva per Banda
Fuji, Symphonic Sketch for Band (1992)
Funa-Uta (1993/1999)
Gloriosa ("Gururiyoza") (1990/2013)
Go For Broke (2000)
Hamamatsu Overture
Hanyang Forever! (2010)
Kokiriko alla Marcia (1999)
La Follia nel Bosco (2013)
La Vita (1998)
Liturgia Sinfonica
Maiko Spring March
March 'Over the Century'
March 'Over the Wind'
March 'The Three Tops Hill'
March, Wind & Sun
Meguru Kisetsu ni
Melodies for Wind Ensemble
Morning Songs in Hiroshima (2009)
Mt. Fuji March (2003)
On the March (1978/1991)
Pacem et gloriam pro nobis
Peace, Peace, so Sing the Birds (2018)
Piano Concerto (Ito)
The Planets
Preludio Celebrativo
Progress
Rag-Time-March
Rapsodia di Toyama
Rapsodia Formosa (1992)
Remembrance II
Ryukuan Fantasy for Band (1997/1998/2013)
Ryukuan Fantasy for Saxophone Quartet (1997/1999)
The Seashell Song (2012)
Sinfonia Singaporiana (2005)
Solo Una Volta! (2013)
Soma Festival March
Soma Festival March No.2
Sonata Classica (1996)
Tableau
Taiwanese Posy (2007)
That Which He Has Taught Us (2015)
Time into Music (2018)
Variations from the Northern Sea (1993)

Resources

Yasuhide Ito website