Vespers

From Wind Repertory Project
Susan Botti

Susan Botti


Subtitle: Walking in Beauty


General Info

Year: 2022
Duration: c. 40:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Susan Botti
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Movements

1. Invocation
2. Forget the Wars (Stesichoros – 6thc BC – trans. Brooks Haxton)
3. Les Distances (Philippe Jaccottet)
4. Brief Dream (Samuel Beckett)
5. Pied Beauty (Gerard Manly Hopkins)


Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II-III-IV (doubling Piccolo and Alto Flute)
Oboe I-II (doubling English Horn)
Bassoon (doubling Contrabassoon)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III (doubling E-flat Soprano Clarinet)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
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
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
String Bass I-II
Percussion I-II-III-IV

(percussion detail desired)

Choir


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Walking at dusk is something I have done since childhood. I am full of memories of walking – alone, and with others, on mountains, through cities, through woods, and along waterways. Walking tunes me to the pulses and sounds of my environment. Aligning myself with the rhythm of the natural world is something I crave, and in fact, I find it to be a form of healing. A form of prayer.

The texts I have chosen to set are interrelated by their imagery, their movement, and their sounds. Walk in Beauty is a Navajo (Diné) traditional prayer. I have not “set” this prayer musically, rather it is a source of inspiration -- a meditation I carry with me with gratitude.

For my father, with whom I loved to walk.

Vespers (walking in beauty) was commissioned by an international consortium of wind ensembles led by Glen Adsit and the Hartt School.

- Program Note by composer


Media

None discovered thus far.


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project The Hartt Wind Ensemble (West Hartford, Conn.) (Glen Adsit, conductor; Hartt Voices and Voices of Concinnity) - 25 March 2023


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