Speak to Me
General Info
Year: 2010 / 2016
Duration: c. 5:10
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00 | Score Only (print) - $35.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe
Bassoon
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
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Concert Toms (3)
- Maracas
- Marimba
- Mark Tree
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal (large)
- Tam Tam
- Sand Shaker
- Tambourine
- Triangle, small
- Vibraslap
- Wood Block (small)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
There is a long tradition in jazz of instruments carrying on a conversation -- either intricate, soloistic dialogues (often improvised) or the call and response of larger forces. Speak to Me is above all such a conversation, at first among soloists and then among more and more performers as they gradually join in. This piece begins with a simple tune that increasingly overlaps with -- and is interrupted by -- other ideas, generating enormous energy along the way.
The piece was commissioned by the John F. Kennedy High School in LaPalma, California.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: University of North Texas Wind Symphony
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- State University of New York Schenectady Wind Ensemble (Allyson Keyser, conductor) - 5 May 2023
- Eastern Carolina University (Greenville) Symphony Band (Joe Busuito, conductor) - 2 November 2021
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Glenn C. Hayes, conductor) - 3 May 2021
- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Concert Band (Arris Golden, conductor) – 8 October 2019
- Fresno (Calif.) City College Wind Ensemble (Elisha K Wilson, conductor) - 17 March 2019 (2019 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- Fresno State (Calif.) Symphonic Band (Steven McKeithen, conductor) -15 March 2019 (2019 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Symphony Band (Phillip A. Ostrander, conductor) – 16 November 2018
- Florida International University (Miami) Symphonic Band (Barry Bernhardt, conductor) - 1 March 2018
- Northern Illinois University (Dekalb) Wind Symphony (Mark Alletag, conductor) – 19 April 2017
- VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Stacey Larson Dolan, conductor) - 16 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
- University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) Hindsley Symphonic Band (Barry L. Houser, conductor) – 1 March 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 Contrabass 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
- Ithaca Forever (as arranger) (1984)
- 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)
- The One-Lady Band from Owego (2021)
- 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
- Spurlin, Corey. "Speak to Me." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 487-495. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.