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To Set the Darkness Echoing
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts - $115.00 | Score Only - $12.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe
English Horn
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 I-II
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Afushi
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Cymbals (ride and suspended - small and medium)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-tam)
- Log Drum
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Timpani
- Tom-Toms (3)
- Triangle (2)
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
To Set the Darkness Echoing was commissioned by a consortium of schools in Cobb County, Georgia, in the Atlanta area. Although this wonderful part of the country is known for its many attributes, my primary association with it is as a keystone of the Civil Rights Movement, in part because it was the home of Martin Luther King, Jr.
One reason that Dr. King was so successful -- and the Civil Rights Movement had such an impact -- is that through nonviolent protest, he held a mirror up to ourselves, forcing us all to see how we -- not others -- were behaving. In this process, to use the words of poet Seamus Heaney, Dr. King "set the darkness echoing", and thus, inspired profound change. It is a great lesson for all of us that in our personal and social lives, we need not be afraid to set the darkness echoing, for it is in this process that we truly learn about ourselves and come to terms with the truths in our lives.
- Program Note by Dana Wilson
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- John Hershey High School (Arlington Heights, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Scott Casagrande, conductor) – 20 December 2007 (2007 Midwest Clinic)
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)
- 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)