Reminiscences

Mark Camphouse

General Info

Year: 2011
Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto 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
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

Bass Drum
Chimes
Crash Cymbals
Crotales
Orchestra Chimes
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Tambourine
Tam-Tam
Vibraphone
Wind Chimes

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Mark Camphouse says of his Reminiscences, "When Boise State University Director of Bands Marcellus Brown first contacted me in May 2010 about composing a work for his performance with the BSU Symphonic Winds at the 2011 CBDNA National Convention, I asked him what kind of work he wanted from me. His response was very simple and direct: 'I want something lyrical...song-like, with a duration of approximately five minutes.'

The timing of his call was certainly propitious as I was sketching a work for solo piano having those qualities and duration for a dear friend and George Mason University School of Music faculty colleague whose father had just passed away. I immediately began to think about the rich sonic possibilities of an eventual (modified) version of the work for full symphonic band.

"The name of my friend and colleague's father (Albert Allen Apple) gave me the idea of basing this work on a musical monogram on the pitches A-A-A heard in the refrain of one of the hymns sung during his memorial service: It is Well with My Soul. (A brief quote of that hymn is heard near the beginning of the work). Cast in a broad ternary form, Reminiscences is simple and direct in expression. I hope the qualities of strength and beauty (qualities we associate with the life and career of Dr. Harry Begian and to whose memory this version of the work is dedicated) are appropriately reflected."

- Program Note by composer

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
Audio CD: VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band (Marcellus Brown, conductor) - 2011

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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State University of New York, Fredonia, Concert Band (Ray Stewart, conductor) - 4 March 2022
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Wind Symphony (John Graham, conductor) - 2013
VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Marcellus Brown, conductor) – 16 December 2011 (2011 Midwest Clinic)
Boise (Id.) State University Symphonic Winds (Marcellus B. Brown, conductor) – 24 March 2011 (CBDNA 2011 National Conference, Seattle, Wash.) *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Air Mobility Command March (2008)
Anthem (2009)
Canzon, Fugato, and Hymn (2004)
A Dakota Rhapsody (2007)
Declarations (1996/1997)
Elegy (1989)
Elegy, Prayer, and Hymn (2015)
Essay (1992)
Fantasia on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (2005)
First Essay for Symphonic Band. See: Essay
Foundation (2007)
Heartland Sketches (2009)
Homage to the Dream (2013)
Illuminations (2016/2018)
In Memoriam (2002)
La cathédrale résiliente (2019)
Legacy for Brass and Percussion (2008)
A Movement for Rosa (1992)
Pacific Commemoration (1999)
Prelude, Processional, and Postlude (2019)
Reminiscences (2011)
Resolutions (2017/2020)
Romanza, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
Second Essay for Symphonic Band (2015)
The Shining City (2011)
Symphonic Fanfare (2006)
Symphonic Prelude (The Cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer) (2006)
Symphony from Ivy Green
Three London Miniatures (1988)
To Build a Fire (1992)
Tribute (1985)
Twin Ports Overture (2012/2013)
Two American Canvases (2010)
Watchman, Tell Us of the Night (1996)
Whatsoever Things... (1997)
Yosemite Autumn (1997/2004)

Resources

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