Scenes from Terezin
General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 9:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil a Kjos Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Movements
1. An Evening in Terezin- 2:50
2. Home – 2:10
3. I Am a Jew – 2:35
4. Birdsong – 2:00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-VII, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Claves
- Finger Cymbals
- Marimba
- Orchestra Chimes
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Terezin Concentration Camp was the home for over 150,000 Jews during the Holocaust. Scenes from Terezin is based on the poems of Ava Scholsova and Fronta Bas, both of whom died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and William Francis McBeth's beautiful and intense Kaddish. The four movements of this poignant work are bound together by a recurring motive. For the most part, the music is not happy or uplifting, but meant to portray a dark time in world history, and remind us to pause and be thankful for our freedom.
- Program Note from publisher and Evanston Now
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: North Texas Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor)
State Ratings
- Louisiana: IV
- Texas: IV. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska Omaha University Band (Peter Wilger, conductor) - 1 March 2023
- Muskingum University (New Concord, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (David Turrill, conductor) - 5 November 2021
- Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Symphonic Band (Craig V. Hamilton, conductor) – 7 March 2019
- Shakopee (Minn.) High School Symphonic Band (Eric Christenson, conductor) – 11 December 2017
- Vienna (VA) Community Band (Cornelius Young, conductor) 5 November 2017
- Northshore Concert Band (Evanston, Ill.) (Mallory Thompson, conductor) - 23 April 2017
- Houston (Tx.) Concert Band (Chuck Throckmorton, conductor) – 2 October 2011
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)
- 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
- "Giving Voice to the Silenced." Evanston Now. 16 March 2017. Accessed 16 April 2017
- Jack Stamp website
- Stamp, J. (2009). Scenes from Terezin [score]. La Jolla Music; San Diego, Calif.
- Thereienstadt Concentration Camp, Wikipedia Accessed 16 April 2017