Toward the Sunrising

James Curnow

James Curnow

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General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Curnow Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00   |   Score Only (print) - $15.95

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

In Toward the Sunrising James Curnow seeks to capture the optimistic, confident spirit that is evident in today's youth as they accept the challenges and opportunities of beginning life's journey. It is dedicated to teachers and parents who have helped shape, guide and mold their students' lives and to those young people who have prepared themselves for life's adventure.

Opening with a majestic fanfare that presents the mood and general style of the composition, the overture immediately changes direction through the unfolding of a lively and energetic scherzo. The opening fanfare returns near the end of the scherzo, juxtaposed with motifs and melodies from the scherzo.

This work was commissioned by the Davidson Fine Arts Bands, Augusta, Georgia, Michael Katterjohn, Conductor, for the dedication ceremony of the school's new campus.

- Program Note from publisher

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
• Audio CD: Stone High School Symphonic Band (Mohamad Schuman, conductor) – 2001

State Ratings

• Mississippi: VI-A
• North Carolina: V
• Virginia: V

Performances

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• Pomona (Calif.) Concert Band (Linda W. Taylor, conductor) – 7 July 2016
• First Coast Wind Ensemble (Jacksonville, Fla.) – 22 February 2014
• Stone High School (Wiggins, Miss.) Symphonic Band (Mohamad Schuman, conductor – 22 December 2001 (2001 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Amber Waves of Grain (Flex instrumentation) (1994)
• Canticum (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• Fanfare and Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (1995/2013)
• Korean Folk Rhapsody (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• Nathan Hale Trilogy (Flex instrumentation) (1990/2013)
• Renaissance Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c.1551/1983/2016)
• Valdres (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2015)

All Wind Works

• African Sketches (1992)
• Album for the Young (Op. 39) (as arranger) (1878/2007)
• Amber Waves of Grain (1994)
• Amber Waves of Grain (Flex instrumentation) (1994)
• Appalachian Dances (2008)
• Apple Island Legend (1997)
• Beyond the Stars
• Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (as arranger) (1985)
• Blazon (1997)
• Bridge of the Gods (2012)
• Canadian Sketches (1996)
• Canterbury Coronation (1996)
• Canticle at Christmastide (2006)
• Canticle of the Creatures (1984)
• Canticum (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• The Carnival of the Animals (as arranger) (1886/2008)
• Celebration Fanfare
• Celebration (1994)
• Ceremonial Flourishes (1988)
• Chinese Folk Fantasy (2013)
• Christmas Classics (1993)
• Christmas Fancies (2000)
• Christmas Flourish, A (1998)
• Christmas Prelude (as arranger) (1989)
• Christmas Travelogue (as arranger)
• Classical Suite for Piano and Band (as arranger) (2006)
• Concertino for Tuba and Band (1978/2001)
• Concertpiece (1990)
• Concertpiece for Clarinet, Winds and Percussion (1990)
• Dance Episodes (2006)
• Day at the Circus, A (1998)
• Day at the Museum, A (1997)
• Day in Space, A
• Dialogues for Saxophone Quartet, Winds and Percussion (2005)
• Dimensions of Seven
• Dublin Sketches
• Fanfare and Flourishes (1995)
• Fanfare and Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (1995/2013)
• Fanfare for Christmas (2004)
• Fanfare for Spartacus (1996)
• Fanfare Prelude: "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" (1999)
• Fanfare Prelude on "God of Our Fathers" (1876/1983)
• Fanfare Prelude on "Joy to the World" (1985)
• Fantasia di Falcone
• Fantasy on a Colonial Air
• Festive Fanfare for the Holidays (2006)
• Festivity (1993)
• Festivo Fantastico (1998)
• Fiddle Tunes (as arranger) (2002)
• Finale for a Winter Festival (2004)
• Folk Dances (as arranger (1942/2000)
• Freedom Road (1994)
• Freedom's Song (2009)
• French Christmas Carol Fantasy (1989)
• Golliwog's Cakewalk (as arranger)
• Guadalcanal March (as arranger) (1952/1989)
• Heroic Tribute (2006)
• Illini Fantasy (2006)
• In Storm and Sunshine (as arranger) (1884/1986)
• In the Valley of the Sun (2013)
• International Christmas Salute (1996)
• Inventions from the Sacred Harp (2005)
• Irish Legends (1994)
• Journey (2009)
• Jubilee (2012)
• Kentucky Kaleidoscope
• Korean Folk Rhapsody (1988)
• Korean Folk Rhapsody (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• Land of Tomorrow (2010)
• Lion of Lucerne (1986)
• Lone Star Celebration (1995)
• Megaforce (1997)
• Midway March (as arranger)
• Moment in Time, A
• Mutanza (1981)
• Nathan Hale Trilogy (1990)
• Nathan Hale Trilogy (Flex instrumentation) (1990/2013)
• Nexus (2015)
• Nulli Secundus (Curnow)
• Nutcracker Suite (as arranger) (1891/1987)
• Overture to a Winter Festival (1995)
• Peter and the Wolf (as arranger) (1936/1986)
• Praetorius Variations
• Prelude and Celebration (1996)
• Prelude on a Hymn of Praise (1996)
• Prelude on Lobe Den Herren (1982/1997)
• The Promise of Living (as arranger) (1954/2012)
• Quintessence
• Rejouissance (1988)
• Renaissance Festival (as arranger) (2008)
• Renaissance Suite (as arranger) (c.1551/1983)
• Renaissance Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c.1551/1983/2016)
• Rhapsody for Euphonium and Band (1978/1999)
• Rhapsody on American Shaped Note Melodies (1996)
• Romanza (2017)
• Russian Christmas Music (as arranger) (1944/1990)
• Russian Folk Fantasy (1992)
• Sea to Shining Sea (2006)
• Seacliffe Overture (1983)
• Selections from "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46 (as transcriber) (1878/)
• Selections from "Suite of Old American Dances" (as arranger) (1950/2005)
• Selections from Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (1992)
• Slavonic Dances, The (as transcriber)
• Songs of the West (as arranger) (1907/1986)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (as arranger) (1897)
• Sovereign Variants
• Spirit of the Pioneers (2007)
• Suite from "Messiah" (as transcriber) (1741/1989)
• Suncatcher (2000)
• Symphonic Chorale for Band (1989)
• Symphonic Suite from "The Right Stuff" (as arranger) (1983/1984)
• Symphonic Triptych (1978)
• Symphonic Variants (1998)
• Three Colonial Ballads (as arranger)
• The Three Drummers (2004)
• Toward the Sunrising (1999)
• Turkish March (as arranger) (1809/2001)
• Valdres (arr Curnow) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2016)
• Valdres (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2015)
• Vanguard (2003)
• Voluntary on Old Hundreth (as transcriber) (/2000)
• A Wexford Reverie (as arranger) (2005)
• When the Morning Stars Sang (2005)
• Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew (1993)
• Winds of Change

Resources

• Curnow, J. (1999). Toward the Sunrising [score]. Curnow Music Press: Wilmore, Ky.