Summer to Fall: A Love Song

David Holsinger

David Holsinger

General Info

Year: 2005
Duration: c. 8:15
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $90.00   |   Score Only - $12.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

• Bar Chimes
• Bass Drum
• Cymbals (crash and suspended)
• Glockenspiel
• Marimba
• Snare Drum
• Tambourine
• Triangle (small and medium)
• Tubular Bells

Errata

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Program Notes

Summer to Fall was commissioned to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Warrensburg, Missouri, Community Band and to honor its Director, Dr. Russ Coleman, Director Emeritus of Central Missouri State University. And that sums up the “official business stuff.” On the “personal” side, Russ Coleman and his wife Alice have been friends of my wife and myself for . . . a whole bunch of years. My wife was in his university band, and I served as his Graduate Assistant at Central Missouri State in the years between 1967 and 1969. Under his leadership I learned a great deal about being an arranger, being a better band director, and getting a handle on how not to be so “full of myself” at age 22 and beyond! It’s always difficult to write for friends because you really want to do the “best you can do.” I wanted this piece to be “special” in every way. But to be candid, I had a hard time just getting started! After much thought, I realized that, especially in recent years, Russ and Alice as “Russ and Alice” have become even more treasured friends to my wife and myself than ever before. It became apparent that celebrating their wonderful partnership in life and in music should be the motivating focus of this composition. When Russ Coleman began his teaching career in rural Kansas many years ago, he needed a pianist to accompany his soloists at contest. He discovered that there was an elementary teacher who played piano and quickly recruited her to help. Two years later, Alice, the accompanist, became Mrs. Coleman. Some guys will do anything to keep a good piano player handy! And that’s why I wrote A Love Song.

Program Note by David Holsinger

Commercial Discography

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Audio Links

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Recent Performances

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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer

• Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
• Adagio
• Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman!, The (2014)
• American Faces (1996)
• Ancient Dances
• Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf, The
• Army Ants March and Boogie
• At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
• Ballet Exaltare
• Ballet Sacra
• Battle Music
• A Call to Celebration (2012)
• Canticles!
• Case of the Mysterious Stranger, The
• Chase, The
• Childhood Hymn, A (1991)
• Cityscape I (Festive Hours Neon Night)
• Cityscape II (Lonely Hours Anguished Night)
• Cluster Bluster Fluster March, The
• Connacht Rhapsody (2014)
• Consider the Uncommon Man
• Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
• Deerpath Dances
• Divertimented Dances
• Easter Symphony, The
• Elegy on an American Folk Tune
• Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
• Every Morning New
• Falcon Attack!
• Fanfare for Brass and Timpani
• Fanfare for Such a Time as This
• Fanfare for the Glorious NayCart
• Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
• Fantasy on Old Hundred (2018)
• Festiva Jubiloso
• Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
• Fort Canterbury March
• Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron, The (1988)
• Gears Pulleys Chains
• Gmyway’s Revenge!
• Graysondance
• Gypsydance (1994)
• Havendance (1982)
• Helm Toccata
• Hero Music (2005)
• Homage: Three Tapestries
• Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
• If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else
• In Praise of Gentle Pioneers
• In the Spring At the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
• Jolly Walk in Hibbertland, A
• Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
• Kansas City Dances
• Lake Canterbury Regatta
• Last Run
• Little Adventure Music, A
• Little Fantasy on an American Hymn
• Little Mystery Music, A (1996)
• Liturgical Dances (1982)
• Maelstrom, The
• March of the Combat Patrol, The
• March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
• March on a Russian Hymnsong
• Mobbusters!
• Nilesdance
• On a Children's Sunday Song
• On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1988)
• On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowery
• On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
• On an American Spiritual (1991)
• On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances
• On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon
• On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
• On the Overland Stage to El Paso
• One Day in a Small Town
• Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince
• Partita Allegro
• Peasant Village Dance, The
• Praises! (2001)
• Prairie Dances
• Prelude and Presto (2018)
• Prelude and Rondo (1976)
• Pride of Buxmont, The
• Providence Unfinished
• Quiet River (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois (2011)
• Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
• Riding With the Frontier Battalion
• Scaling the North Wall
• Scootin’ on Hardrock (1990)
• Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary
• Sinfonia Voci (1993)
• Soliloquy
• Some Give All (2016)
• A Song of Moses
• Summer to Fall: A Love Song
• Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
• Symphonic Movement (Holsinger)
• Texas Promenade
• Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword
• To Live the Life Triumphant
• To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
• Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March
• War Trilogy: 1971, The
• The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
• Zinphonia (2017)

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