Searching for Lost Dreams

Dana Wilson

General Info

Year: 2013
Duration: 8:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $145.00; (digital) - $145.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass 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
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV

Bass Drum
Bongos
Crotales
Marimba
Mark Tree
Orchestra Bells
Slapstick
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbals (small and medium)
Tam-tam
Tambourine
Toms (2)
Triangles (small and large)
Tubular Bells
Vibraphone
Vibraslap
Wood Block
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Searching For Lost Dreams (2013) was commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the New Jersey All State Bands. The composer offers the following about the work:

As I began this piece, it was as though I was entering a dream. The music was atmospheric, undefined, and somewhat disorienting. Gradually the material became more focused, but just in time to switch to a very different – though related – sound world, which became the second movement. There was an overall poignancy and dramatic shape to the music that suggested the title that currently exists.

- Program Note from University of North Texas Wind Symphony concert program, 17 November 2016

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Symphony Band (Phillip A. Ostrander, conductor) - 4 May 2022
Ohlone Wind Ensemble (Fremont, Calif.) (Tony Clements, conductor) – 20 October 2019
College of the Sequoias (Visalia, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Michael Tackett, conductor) – 6 October 2019
University of Oklahoma (Norman) Wind Symphony (Dan Harbaugh, conductor) – 1 October 2018
University of North Texas (Denton) Wind Symphony (Jacqueline Townsend, conductor) – 17 November 2016

Works for Winds by This Composer

A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:

Avatar, The (2005)
Awakening... (2011)
The Banquet (2017)
Black Nightshade (2004)
Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
Clarion Call (1988)
Colorado Peaks (2009)
Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble (2021)
Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
Concerto for Trombone (2015)
Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
Conjurer, The (2015)
Dance of the New World (1992)
Day Dreams (2006)
Evolution (1999)
Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
Fanfare for Karel (2017)
Footsteps (2010)
Front Burner (2020)
How Very Close (2012)
Io Rising
Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
Leader Lieder (1993)
Liquid Ebony (2006)
Liquid Gold (2005)
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (2013/2019)
Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
Of my dream before me... (2021)
Old Number One (2017)
On Fire! (2017)
Piece of Mind (1987)
Primal Worlds (2000)
Quintessence (2019)
Sang! (1993)
Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
Shortcut Home (2003)
Speak to Me (2010)
...the harder they fall (2004)
the most sacred of times (2022)
Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
Uprising (1995)
Vortex (1999)
When I Am Gone Away (2006)
Winds on the Steppes (1994)

Resources

Dana Wilson website
Perusal score
Townsend, Jacqueline. "Searching for Lost Dreams." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 633-640. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.
Wilson, D. (2017). Searching for Lost Dreams [score]. Hendon Music: New York.