Large Ensemble Cello,Clarinet,Double Bass,Flute,Horn,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.869298
Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,A Cappella,Classical,Contemporary,Latin,Romantic Period. Score and parts. With Grateful Chanting: Featuring the B-flat clarinet in a pentatonic chant setting. III. 46 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #431091. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869298).
Instrumentation: Flute, Bb clarinet, Horn in F, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Program note:
Septet, opus 77 ... Variations on a Shaker Tune was commissioned by Mark Ludwig for his educational series in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. When he approached me about writing a theme and variations work for the purpose of illustrating musical form, texture and orchestration to a young audience, I thought what better thing to do than to use as a theme a Shaker hymn from nearby Hancock Shaker Village. As it turns out Deborah Leath Rentz, a mezzo-soprano who is Mark's assistant at the Terezin Music Foundation, has been researching and transcribing a Shaker Hymnal, ca. 1850, created and compiled at the Hancock Shaker Village. (Deborah's project is sponsored by the Hancock Shaker Village and the Richmond Performing Series.) So I asked her to put on DAT tape a number of these hymns for me. I immediately fell in love with the very first one on the tape: Grateful Remembrance. It had a soulful, melancholic core; an almost bluesy feeling to it.
In this performance, Deborah will sing the hymn a cappella in the beginning. Then, seven variations will follow.
I. Grateful Remembrance: An instrumental version of the hymn.
II. Grateful Chanting: Featuring the B-flat clarinet in a pentatonic chant setting.
III. Grateful Funk: The bluesiness of the hymn is transformed into a funk riff.
IV. Tango Remembered: A four-note fragment from the hymn is transformed into a sultry tango.
V. Sambinha agradecida: The yearning flat 6th in the hymn is transformed into a samba Carmen Miranda would've loved.
VI. Canonized Remembrance: The hymn is treated to a canonic transfiguration.
VII. Grateful Groove: The pentatonic nature of the hymn is spun out in an Afro-cuban razzle dazzle finale!!!
Enjoy!!!