Sandburg Reflections
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Subtitle: For Mezzo-Soprano with Wind Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2002 / 2004
Duration: c. 8:40
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co.
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $150.00 | Score Only (print) - $30.00
Movements
1. Good Babies Make Good Poems – 2:27
2. Fog – 1:51
3. Ezra Pound – 1:18
4. Jazz Fantasia – 4:11
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This dramatic work for mezzo soprano and band offers four movements, each of them a poem from Carl Sandburg. The movements are: Good Babies Make Good Poems; Fog; Ezra Pound; and Jazz Fantasia.
- Program Note from publisher
I wrote this for the Coast Guard Band and soprano Tracy Thomas for the band’s 2002 appearance at Chicago’s Midwest Clinic. It is an original setting for mezzo and wind ensemble of four Carl Sandburg poems.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. U.S. Coast Guard Band (Lewis J. Buckley, conductor 2002
- Audio CD: United States Coast Guard Band (Lewis J. Buckley, conductor; Tracy Thomas, mezzo-soprano) – 2002
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg) Symphonic Winds (Colin MacKenzie, conductor) – 2 March 2020
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Symphonic Band (Jerry Luckhardt, conductor; Wendy Zaro-Mullins, mezzo-soprano) – 11 October 2018
- The Ohio State University (Columbus) Symphonic Band (Scott A. Jones, conductor; Katherine Rohrer, mezzo-soprano) – 3 May 2018
- Grand Ledge High School Wind Symphony (Sarah Clark, mezzo-soprano) – 27 March 2013
- United States Coast Guard Band (New London, Conn.) (Lewis J. Buckley, conductor; Tracy Thomas, mezzo-soprano) – 21 December 2002 (2002 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- American Portrait (1999)
- America's Bravest, America's Finest (2002)
- Bicentennial March (1990)
- The Billboard (as arranger) 1901/2003)
- Bright-Colored Dances (1995)
- Carmen Suite (as transcriber; arr. Guirard) (1875/2018)
- Coast Guard Bicentennial March. See: Bicentennial March
- Con Sabor Español (2005)
- Concerto for Flute and Oboe: Allegro Spirituoso (as arranger) (1994/1994)
- Dixieland Live! (as arranger)
- Double Whoopee (as arranger) (2016)
- Honor the Founders (2007)
- Macungie Band Sesquicentennial March (2005)
- The Music Man (as arranger) (1957/2002)
- O Canada (as arranger)
- Sandburg Reflections (2002/2004)
- Turkey in the Straw (as arranger) (1989)
- The Yellow Rose of Texas Variations (as arranger) (1995)
Resources
- Hunsberger, Donald. "Sandburg Reflections." WindWorks: A Journal of the Contemporary Wind Band Issue 8, Winter 2003, pp. 13-14.
- Lewis J. Buckley website Accessed 5 April 2018