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Slow Dawn
Conductor's score and parts on hire - wind band version
978-0-19-335614-6
06 July 2006
Price: Available on request
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Slow Dawn is a gentle and evocative piece for wind band. Berkeley depicts the gradual appearance of the sun (in the form of the tuba), 'shafts of light and playful reflections' which accompany the increasing warmth of day, the 'music of midday' suggesting 'the savage anger of heat in foreign climes with stabbing beams of light', and the final descent of the sun at the end of the day. Forces or CategoryWind bandDuration9 minutesDifficultyModerately
difficultOrchestrationpicc, 2 fl, 2 ob, ca, Ebcl, 3 cl, bcl, 2 bn, cbn, ssx, 2 asx, tsx, barsx, 4 hn, 2 cor, 3 tpt, 2 tbn, btbn, euph, tba, timp, 3 perc (glock, vib, ant cym, deep log dr, SD, BD, rototoms), hp, dbProgramme NotesTim Reynish had been asking me to write for Wind Band for a quarter of a century and Slow Dawn, which is dedicated to the memory of his son, William, was, finally, the result. It depicts the gradual appearance of the sun (in the form of the tuba) as it climbs into the sky. Shafts of light and playful reflections accompany the increasing warmth of day. Allthough in this hemisphere
we have tended to think of, as Wilfred Owen put it, 'the kind old sun', the music of midday in this piece suggests more the savage anger of heat in foreign climes with stabbing beams of light. Though the sun winds down as ever, it is its endless power that informs the music's closing bars.
© Michael Berkeley
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Michael Berkeley (b.1948) Michael Berkeley was born in 1948. He studied composition, singing, and piano at the Royal Academy of Music but it was not until his late twenties, when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett, that Berkeley began to concentrate exclusively on composing. In 1977 he was awarded the Guinness Prize for Composition; two years later he was appointed Associate Composer to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Since then Michael's music has been played all over the globe and by some of the world's finest musicians. Most of Michael's significant orchestral work, much of his chamber music and his operas are available on CD as part of the Chandos Berkeley Edition. For ten years from 1995
Michael was artistic director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. He currently presents Radio 3's Private Passions, which won the Broadcasting Press Guild's Radio Programme of the Year Award in 1996, and is Chairman of the Governors of The Royal Ballet.Michael Berkeley's website
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