The New Winds of Change by Frank L. Battisti

Author:Frank L. Battisti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meredith Music
Published: 2018-08-27T01:45:12+00:00

Christian Lindberg

Concerto for Winds and Percussion

Carter Pann

Slalom (wind version)

Joseph Turrin

Hemispheres

Eric Whitacre

Sleep (wind version)

Dana Wilson

Concerto for French Horn and Wind Ensemble

Evan Ziporyn

Drill

Much of the music of Awake, You Sleepers! By Laurence Bitensky (b. 1966) is based on Rosh Hashanah motives and melodies that occur in the German/East-European musical tradition. The blowing of the shofar in the Rosh Hashanah service is a call for repentance, symbolically awakening the sleeper from moral and spiritual slumber. Commenting on his work, Bitensky stated,

Awake, You Sleepers! is based on the free and supple improvisation of traditional Jewish chant and some of its spirit of metrically-free improvisation should be maintained. The soloist and conductor should strive for a very fluid and flexible sense of tempo throughout, using much rubato.5

Awake, You Sleepers! was premiered at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Manchester, England, on July 2, 2002. John Hagstrom was the trumpet soloist with the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra conducted by Timothy Reynish.

Peter Child (b. 1953) is a British-born composer and professor at MIT. He wrote his Concertino for Violin and Chamber Winds in 2002 for violinist Young-Nam Kim and the MIT Wind Ensemble. The work is in three short sections, fast-slow-fast, compressed into one movement, for violin and ten wind players. The string soloist’s music is etched in sharp relief of the wind ensemble. The individual wind players step forward frequently to collaborate with the violin in the unfolding of the piece.

Donald Grantham (b. 1947) composed J. S. Dances in 2002. It was commissioned by the University of Akron Symphonic Band, Robert Jorgensen, conductor, and is based on two dances (Minuet II and Gigue) from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita I (Clavierübung, Part I). The composer describes the eight-minute “free fantasy” piece as “[relentless] and reckless . . . with the gigue character predominating.” Grantham often employs quotations from other composers’ music in his pieces—“[I] hope [to] . . . put my own stamp on the material and show it . . . in a fresh light.”6 Both Bach dances used in this piece appear in more or less their original forms, complemented by other material that develop and elaborate some of the many interesting aspects of the music.

Christian Lindberg (b. 1958), in addition to being one of the world’s great trombone artists, is also a composer and conductor. His seventeen-minute Concerto for Winds and Percussion is a fresh, bold, and exciting piece. It was commissioned in 2002 by Timothy Reynish, President of WASBE, and premiered at the 2003 WASBE International Conference in Jönköping, Sweden, by the Swedish Wind Ensemble, conducted by the composer. Lindberg tailored each solo passage in the work specifically for the Swedish Wind Ensemble player who would be performing it. Timothy Reynish provided the following description of the piece:

The striking opening fanfare for brass plays an integral part in the piece, here ushering in the

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