Saints Fantasy
James Stephenson (trans. Rex Richardson)
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General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 11:10
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stephenson Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
James Stephenson came late to his full-time composing career, having performed 17 seasons as a trumpeter in the Naples Philharmonic in Florida, a position he won immediately upon graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music. As such, he is largely self-taught as a composer. Colleagues and friends encouraged his earliest efforts and enthusiasm followed from all directions. His works have been performed by leading American orchestras and hailed by critics as having “straightforward, unabashedly beautiful sounds” and "Stephenson deserves to be heard again and again!" (Boston Herald). His music incorporates a fresh and energizing soundscape that delights the audience while maintaining integrity and worthwhile challenges for the performing musicians.
Saints Fantasy contains several of “Satchmo’s” [Louis Armstrong] most famous melodies, including When It’s Sleepy Time Down South, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?, Hello, Dolly, What a Wonderful World and When the Saints Go Marching In.
- Program Note from Kennesaw State University Wind Ensemble concert program, 10 October 2018
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Kennesaw (Ga.) State University Wind Ensemble (David Kehler, conductor; Ryan Moser, trumpet) – 10 October 2018
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)
- A Charleston Christmas (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
- Declaration (2024)
- 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)
- Hymn for US (2023)
- 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)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1996/2015)
- 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)
- Old Modern Musick (2018)
- 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)
- Spinning Wheel (2024)
- 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)
- Symphony No 4 (2023)
- 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)
- Voyages (2020)
- Walk Slowly (arr. M. Stephenson) (1997/2009/2020)
- Wildcat Run (2019)
- Wooden Dimes (2021/2022)
- Zodiac Concerto II (2022)
Resources
- James Stephenson website Accessed 10 October 2018