The text of this reflective and expressive work provides a rich metaphor for healing as it suggests that difficulty and sorrow can be used redemptively in our lives. At the point in the text where the phrase a frail bell posed a chime is heard the unmetered voices evoke the sound of a wind chime building to a forte then gradually diminishing to a quiet conclusion. With piano wind chimes and fi…

The combination of text music and accompaniment (including optional flute and wind chimes) captures the mood of this distinctive season. Ideal programming for your opening concert of the season.

Arrangeur: Mark Sirett. Par SEEGER PETER / SEEGER PETER. Pete Seeger's classic folksong is as moving and relevant today as when it was first written in 1955. This lyrical arrangement adds layers of voicing while retaining the song's original beauty and clarity./ Répertoire / Flûte Traversière, Hautbois, Violon, Windchimes, C

A concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Full Score.Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.First performance:Tuesday 4 January 2005 Usher Hall Edinburgh by Colin Currie (solo percussion)and The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland conducted by Garry Walker Instrumentation Solo percussion:Marimba metal wind chimes [mark tree] Chinese Bell tree Vibraphone Tubular bells 4 c…

Sam Hazo composer of In Heaven's Air offers this new beautiful work based on a poem written by his father poet laureate of Pennsylvania. After a sensitive introduction the poem is read under a haunting military cadence in the percussion. The material in the introduction is then developed and presented in a lush and beautiful setting. Chimes wind chimes and bells conclude the work which fades…

For Soprano and Orchestra.Natural History was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was written for the voice of Dawn Upshaw. The first performance was given by these artists conducted by Sir Simon Rattle on14th January 1999 in Symphony Hall Boston. Orchestra 3 Flutes (3rd doubling piccolo and alto flute)3 Oboes3 Clarinets in Bb3 Bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon)4 Horns in F3 T…

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge was one of the finest English composers of the first half of the 20th century. The Pageant of London is his only work for wind band, comprising of two marches, one scored from Bridge’s best known organ piece and including the chimes ofBig Ben, plus three short renaissance pastiche items, one arranged from Playford (later used by Peter Warlock in Capriol Suite). The m…

Par BARNES LARRY. Cloud Breathing by Larry Barnes, for Oboe and Piano. Cloud breathing is a technique in Chinese martial arts involving short, sharp inhaling breaths and a slow exhale to oxygenate the body in preparation for fighting, meditation and healing. In this work, the piano begins in the upper register with tones like wind chimes, with the oboe entering beneath. This meditative first secti…

Japanese Lullaby-This Japanese lullaby is a traditional song sung by girls far away from home as they worked as nannies in upper class households. The gentle sounds of flute and wind chimes support the plaintive quality of the melody presented in canon and simple harmonization over the arpeggios in the piano or optional marimba accompaniment.

Instrumental Accompaniment Set-Includes: 3 Trumpets 2 Horns 3 Trombones Tuba Percussion (2 Timpani Tambourine Triangle Wind Chimes Suspended Cymbal Antique Cymbal Tenor Drum Snare Drum Wood Block Crash Cymbal).

For TTBB divisi chorus wind chimes andoptional Soprano saxophone (part available separately).I Saw Eternity was commissioned by and is dedicated to Hans-Joachim Lustig and Mannerstimmen der Chorknaben Uetersen.

Flute wind chimes rain stick djembe and shaker contribute to the reflective mood of this musical setting of a Lakota poem. The modal melodies vocal effects and rising and falling phrasing offer appropriate challenges to treble choirs from middle school and up.