No Brief Candle
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 9:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $140.00 | Score Only - $20.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- C Piccolo
- Flute I-II
- Oboe I-II (II doubling English Horn)
- Bassoon I-II
- E-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
- Horn in F I-II-III-IV
- Trombone I-II
- Bass Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Timpani (5 drums)
- Percussion (7 players), including:
- *Bass Drum
- *Claves
- *Crash Cymbal
- *Crotlaes
- *Slapstick
- *Snare Drum
- *Tambourine
- *Temple Blocks
- *Tom-tom
- *Triangle
- *Tubular Bells
- *Vibraphone
- *Xylophone
- SATB Chorus
- Soprano Solo
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
John Locke and I have been friends since he first arrived in North Carolina in the early 1980s. In our over 35-year friendship we have worked, laughed and cried together. So imagine my delight when Kevin Geraldi asked me on behalf of John's former conducting students to write a work honoring John’s career at UNCG [University of North Carolina Greensboro]. Earlier in 2019, I had come up with a little motive and developed it, not knowing what piece it would become. Following the commission request, I quickly realized that my motive, having a "Hindemithian" quality to it, would work perfectly in this piece. I recalled when John had his mentor, Harry Begian, to UNCG to conduct the Hindemith Symphony in B-flat. John was both proud and terrified! Kevin Geraldi also shared a George Bernard Shaw quote which John had framed on his office wall. Since John had told me that his favorite work of mine was Four Maryland Songs, I decided to include a setting of the Shaw quote for soprano voice.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.
- Program Note by composer
Media
Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- CBDNA Small College Intercollegiate Band (Athens, Ga.) (John R. Locke, conductor; Eizabeth J. Knight, mezzo-soprano; University of Georgia Hodgson Singers) – 18 February 2023 (CBDNA 2023 National Conference, Athens, Ga.)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Wind Ensemble (John R. Locke, conductor; Teri Bickham, soprano; University Choirs) – 21 February 2020 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
All Wind Works
- AirLink (2009)
- Aloft! (1997)
- Antithigram (1977/1988)
- As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
- Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
- Bandancing (2004)
- Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
- The Beltway Jam (2006)
- Border Dance (2021)
- Cage Dance (2020)
- Capriccio (2023)
- Cenotaph (1992)
- Cheers! (1995)
- Chorale and Toccata (1993)
- Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
- Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
- Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
- Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
- Divertimento in F (1995)
- Down East Fanfare (2003)
- Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
- Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
- Encomium (2022)
- Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
- Escapade (2007)
- Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
- Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
- Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
- Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
- Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
- Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
- The Final Beguine (2018)
- Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
- Forefathers
- Four Maryland Songs (2000)
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
- Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
- I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
- In Final Obedience (1994)
- In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
- In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
- Iridium
- Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
- Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
- Miniature Overture (2010)
- No Brief Candle (2019)
- Panhandle Prelude (2013)
- Parkway Jam Fanfare
- Past the Equinox
- Pastime (1999)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
- Prayer and Jubilation
- Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
- Psalm 150 (2013)
- Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
- Repetend
- Ricercare (2001)
- Rondeau
- Rondo alla BCP (2023)
- San Luis Snapshots (2016)
- Scenes from Terezin (2009)
- Skyline
- A Song of Hope (2013)
- Southpaw (2014)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
- Stranger at My Door (2021)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Three Places in England
- Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
- Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
- Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
- With Trump and Wing
Resources
- Jack Stamp website Accessed 6 April 2020