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Requiem Dances
Subtitle: For Children
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 13:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stephenson Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $175.00 | Score Only (print) - $35.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II (II doubles Piccolo)
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
C Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Organ
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Claves
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Ratchet
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbals (large and small)
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by Alan and Dolly Bodick Korest for the Bower School of Music and the Arts.
- Program Note from publisher
”Because I’m sick and tired of children getting killed.”
This is all I could think about after the most recent repeat of yet another mass shooting in this ‘beloved’ country of ours.
Just the day after the shooting in Parkland, Fla., where 17 students were killed, I was to begin a new piece for the FGCU wind orchestra and the Bower School of Music. Not being able to get the event out of my mind, I could only channel it into music. The only vision that kept coming to mind was that of children who will never again get to dance, as I know young people love to do, from my own experience of having four teenagers in the house.
Therefore the music is infused with dance-like rhythms, but always with an undertone of severity, or of foreboding. The dance just keeps trying to escape, to get to the forefront, but circumstances just won’t let it happen.
Finally, at the end, is a chorale filled with sadness, and then anger. The dance theme once again re-emerges in the piccolo, but eventually just gives up, representing a hopelessness for the future, felt by the composer. Hopefully I won’t have to write too many more pieces like this.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Video: Florida International University Wind Ensemble (Brenton Alston, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Washburn University (Topeka, Kan.) Wind Ensemble (Tom Seddon, conductor) - 30 April 2023
- University of Oklahoma (Norman) Symphony Band (Michael E. Hancock, conductor) – 17 April 2019
- Florida International University (Miami) Wind Ensemble (Brenton F. Alston, conductor) – 14 November 2018
- FGCU Wind Symphony (Gary Green, conductor) - 21 April 2018 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Fanfare for an Angel (Adaptable Band) (2010/2018/2021)
- Fiesta! (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Holiday Carol Medley (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Loop-D-Loop (Adaptable Band) (2017/2020)
- May the Road Rise to Meet You (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- No Thing Can Die as Others Do (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Reflections (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- 2/2 Tango (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- Ubi Caritas (Adaptable Band) (2019/2021)
All Wind Works
- American Embers (2017)
- American Fanfare (2009)
- as the fireflies watched (2020)
- August in York (2008)
- BasSOON It will be Christmas (2007/2013)
- Celebration Overture (1999/2018)
- Chorale in Blue (2018)
- Christmas Charleston (as arranger) (2012)
- Code of Conduct (2023)
- Concerto Braziliano
- Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble
- Concerto for Cell Phone
- Concerto for Hope (2016/2017)
- Concerto for Piccolo Trumpet (2016)
- Concerto for Winds (2023)
- Concerto Grosso (2016)
- Concerto No 1 for Trumpet (2007)
- Concerto No. 2 for Trumpet (2010)
- Concerto No. 3 for Trumpet. See: Concerto for Hope
- Deep Dish (2016)
- The Devil's Tale (2013)
- A Dialogue for Self and Soul (2013)
- Dodecafecta (2010)
- Duels and Dances (2011)
- Duo Fantastique (2007)
- Exhale! (2021)
- Eyes on the Bison (2021)
- Fanfare for an Angel (2010/2018)
- Fanfare for an Angel (Adaptable Band) (2010/2018/2021)
- Fanfare for Democracy (2021)
- Fiesta! (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- ...Forward (2021)
- Glissin' Up (2016)
- Hanging by a Thread (2014)
- Heritage of Freedom Fanfare
- Holiday Carol Medley (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Holiday Fanfare Medley (2010)
- Homage and Farewell (2010)
- In the Moment (2018)
- In the Moment Too (2018)
- Intrepid Promise
- It's About Time (2014)
- Just B. See: Symphony for Brass
- Kentucky Run (2019)
- Kleiner Walzer (as transcriber) (1896/2022)
- L'esprit de la trompette (2012/2014)
- Lonesome Valley Folk Suite (2022)
- Loop-D-Loop (Adaptable Band) (2017/2020)
- Luther: In Canon (2017)
- May the Road Rise to Meet You (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Möbius Trip (2017)
- No Thing Can Die as Others Do (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Octet (2021)
- Overture to a Winter Celebration (2010)
- Perpetual Notion (2020)
- Reflections (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- Requiem Dances (2018)
- Rhythms of the Spirit (2006)
- Saints Fantasy (2017)
- Scram! (2018)
- Second Thoughts (2014)
- Smitty's Aweigh Overture
- Sonata Rhapsody "The Arch" (2009/2014)
- Sounds Awakened (2013)
- Stars and Stripes Fanfare (2007/2018)
- The Storyteller (2013/2017)
- Sunburst Fanfare (2023)
- Symphony for Brass (2014)
- Just B (2020)
- Symphony No 1 for Concert Band (2008)
- Symphony No 2 (2016)
- Taps (2017)
- there are no words (2015)
- this is most certainly true (2017)
- Three Bones Concerto (2013)
- To the Sky (2011)
- 2/2 Tango (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- Twisted Shout (2021)
- Ubi Caritas (Adaptable Band) (2019/2021)
- Unfettered (2020)
- Variations on Chinese Folk Songs (2006)
- Vast and Curious (2014/2017)
- Walk Slowly (arr. M. Stephenson) (1997/2009/2020)
- Wildcat Run (2019)
- Wooden Dimes (2021/2022)
- Zodiac Concerto II (2022)
Resources
- James Stephenson website Accessed 17 April 2019
- Perusal score