Post by erik on Dec 3, 2022 14:54:31 GMT -5
The contemporary American composer Frank Ticheli is in this week's Classical Works Spotlight with a work for wind band that is both modern and classically American in nature.
Frank Ticheli: SANCTUARY
One of the more prominent American composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Frank Ticheli, born in 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana, received a fair amount of musical education from various colleges like the University of Michigan and Southern Methodist University. Between 1991 and 1998, he was also the composer-in-residence at the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County, California. In this time, Mr. Ticheli composed works in various forms, including concertos, symphonies, and for chorus and orchestra. One area where he particularly specialized in, however, was in works composed specifically for wind bands and/or wind orchestras. One such work was “Sanctuary”, from 2006. Composed for his close friend H. Robert Reynolds and commissioned by the University of Michigan, “Sanctuary”, despite the sizeable wind band forces, is actually a fairly tranquil work, almost in the style of some of Aaron Copland’s great orchestral works of the 1940’s and 1950’s (e.g. “Quiet City”; “Appalachian Spring”). It received its premiere in 2006 in a performance by its dedicatee, Mr. Reynolds, and the University of Michigan Symphonic Wind Band; and it has since been performed and recorded by other college wind bands. In the meantime, Mr. Ticheli serves as a professor of music at the University of Southern California, as he has done since 1991.
University of Nevada Las Vegas Wind Orchestra/THOMAS G. LESLIE (Klavier)
Included (The Quest):
Bruce Broughton: OVERTURE TO “SILVERADO”
Walton: THE QUEST
Masao Yabe: SYMPHONIC DANCE FOR BAND (TSUKI-NO-UTAGE)
Fisher Tull: ACCOLADE
Tchaikovsky: THREE DANCES FROM “THE MAID OF ORLEANS”
Frank Ticheli: SANCTUARY
One of the more prominent American composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Frank Ticheli, born in 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana, received a fair amount of musical education from various colleges like the University of Michigan and Southern Methodist University. Between 1991 and 1998, he was also the composer-in-residence at the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County, California. In this time, Mr. Ticheli composed works in various forms, including concertos, symphonies, and for chorus and orchestra. One area where he particularly specialized in, however, was in works composed specifically for wind bands and/or wind orchestras. One such work was “Sanctuary”, from 2006. Composed for his close friend H. Robert Reynolds and commissioned by the University of Michigan, “Sanctuary”, despite the sizeable wind band forces, is actually a fairly tranquil work, almost in the style of some of Aaron Copland’s great orchestral works of the 1940’s and 1950’s (e.g. “Quiet City”; “Appalachian Spring”). It received its premiere in 2006 in a performance by its dedicatee, Mr. Reynolds, and the University of Michigan Symphonic Wind Band; and it has since been performed and recorded by other college wind bands. In the meantime, Mr. Ticheli serves as a professor of music at the University of Southern California, as he has done since 1991.
University of Nevada Las Vegas Wind Orchestra/THOMAS G. LESLIE (Klavier)
Included (The Quest):
Bruce Broughton: OVERTURE TO “SILVERADO”
Walton: THE QUEST
Masao Yabe: SYMPHONIC DANCE FOR BAND (TSUKI-NO-UTAGE)
Fisher Tull: ACCOLADE
Tchaikovsky: THREE DANCES FROM “THE MAID OF ORLEANS”