This Land of El Dorado

W. Francis McBeth

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This work bears the designation Opus 81.

General Info

Year: 1993
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Keiser Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $149.95 | Score Only (print) - $15.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This work was commissioned by the Omicron Pi Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the Beta Alpha chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon in celebration of the career of Benton Minor at California State, Fullerton. Since Mr. Minor was a native Californian, the title is directed to him and his state, El Dorado being the mythical city of gold. This land of El Dorado is the last line of Edgar Allen Poe's poem, Eldorado.

- Program Note from publisher

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
Audio: Solano Winds (Bill Doherty, conductor)
Audio CD: Springdale High School Symphonic Winds (Patricia Ellison, conductor) - 1993

State Ratings

North Carolina: VI
Oklahoma: IV-A
South Carolina: V

Performances

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Salt Lake Symphonic Winds (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Thomas P. Rohrer, conductor) - 8 February 2022
Winston Salem (N.C.) State University Symphonic Band Spring 2013

Works for Winds by This Composer

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Battaglia (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1967/2021)

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Cantique and Faranade (1967)
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Festive Centennial (1974)
The Fifth Trumpeter (1989)
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Grace Praeludium (1982)
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They Hung Their Harps in the Willows (1988)
This Land of El Dorado (1993)
Through Countless Halls of Air (1995)
To Be Fed By Ravens (1975)
To the Unknowns (1987)
When Honor Whispers and Shouts (1998)
When Rossi Strikes
Wine From These Grapes (1992)
With Sounding Trumpets (1987)

Resources

McBeth, W. (1993). This Land of El Dorado: For Symphonic Band [score]. Southern Music Co.: San Antonio, Tx.