Some Give All

From Wind Repertory Project
David Holsinger

David Holsinger


General Info

Year: 2016
Duration: c. 9:25
Difficulty: IV-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00   |   Score Only (print) - $12.00


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Hi-Hat
  • Marimba
  • Orchestra Chimes
  • Snare Drum
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tam-Tam
  • Temple Blocks
  • Triangle
  • Wood Block
  • Xylophone


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

An extended trumpet duet opens this moving tribute to a fallen soldier. As the two trumpets end the ensemble takes over, offering a solemn and dignified theme that resonates with a quiet majesty. The activity picks up, growing in texture and counterpoint, ascending to triumphant heights before closing as it began with a quiet and distant trumpet solo.

- Program Note from publisher


A year or so ago, I was approached by Thornton Community Band conductor, Jon Borodach, concerning writing a piece to honor a young man from Thornton, Colorado, who died in the first days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Marine, Lance Corporal Thomas Slocum was killed in an ambush on the third day of the military operation to remove Saddam Hussein’s regime and the potential for weapon production and distribution to terrorist organizations. It was a shocking loss, not only to his family, but also to an entire community.

I am a veteran. I served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971. It was not a good time to be in uniform. Some of my friends who served in Vietnam returned home to be spit upon and called “baby killers” by an unsympathetic and jaundiced public. Some of my friends died there and anti-war radicals here at home publicly cheered their deaths. That was then. And this is, hopefully, a different time.

Now, as I travel, I gladly stand and applaud as troops file off an aircraft. Now I thank these young people as I pass them in the corridors for serving their country. I weep each week when I see the casualty reports and see the names of young men and women lost so early in their years. And as the decades go by, I stand taller and prouder every Veterans Day. I am unashamed to call myself an American patriot.

Would I write a work to honor a fallen hero? Try and stop me.

- Program Note by composer


Media


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

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  • Wartburg College (Waverly, Iowa) Wind Ensemble (Craig A. Hancock, conductor) – 5 November 2017
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M66S49bHCA Thornton (Colo.) Community Band (Jon Borodach, conductor) – 9 November 2013 *Premiere Performance*


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