Music & Recordings for Our 12/15 Concert

Hello MSW Friends!

Your section leader has received electronic copies of your section’s music. Please be on the lookout for an email from your section leader with your parts. Remember that you’re responsible for printing your own parts this concert cycle. 

Rehearsal starts before our first downbeat on November 6. Please take a moment to listen to our repertoire and study your parts. 

Listen to our rep as a playlist on YouTube.

Adoration, Price
Listen [same arranger, but for strings]
Listen [different arranger, but for wind ensemble]
Quarter = 80

Originally written for organ in the 1950s, Price’s Adoration was found in a box of compositions that previously had been considered lost. Price was the first Black woman to have her music performed by an American orchestra (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed the world premiere of her Symphony No. 1 in 1933).

BasSOON It Will Be Christmas, Stephenson
Listen
Dotted Quarter Note = 138

For those of us waiting with baited breath every year to learn if we’re finally playing Secret Agent Santa again, get ready for a new cult classic.

Christmas Day, Holst
Listen
Dotted Quarter Note = 96

Holst wrote these variations on popular Christmas carols for his students at Morley College in 1910. Listen for In Dulci Jubilo, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, The First Noel, and Come Ye Lofty, Come Ye Lowly.

Cowboy Christmas, Stephenson
Listen 
Quarter Note = 132

Familiar carols, cowboy style.

Dreidel Dance, Thurston
Listen
Quarter = 126

“Brighten the holidays with this lighthearted theme-and-variations mashup of The Dreidel Song and Hava Nagila. Both of these highly spirited tunes are run through a musically stylistic funhouse, culminating in a breathtaking flurry of high-speed energy.”

Holiday Piece, Foster
Listen
Half Note = 64

Though it’s this librarian’s humble opinion that Foster TOTALLY phoned in the name for this piece, it is a lovely setting of Ukrainian Bell Carol for concert band. 

Liberalitatis Celebranda, Mahr
Listen
Quarter = 126-152

“Dr. Mahr’s work was written in tribute to someone very special to our ensemble, Seton Hill University Professor Kathy Campbell who was the founding conductor of WSW in 1986 and who just completed her 40th year of service to the University before her retirement. The commission was a marvelous, timeless piece written in honor of this extraordinary milestone. The piece captured the elegance, energy, and optimism that Professor Campbell brought to Seton Hill each and every day.” Westmoreland Symphonic Winds, Seton Hill University

Ring the Bells in Jubilation, Cichy
Listen
Quarter = 112

Our fearless leader MSW President Nahal Javan will conduct Cichy’s Ring the Bells in Jubilation to ring in the holiday season.

Winter Magic, Pinkzebra
Listen
Dotted Quarter Note = 56

“With colorful, whimsical melodies, Winter Magic captures the magic and intrigue of wintry folktales and snow-covered forests where mischievous elves tiptoe and scheme just out of sight.”

Listen to our rep as a playlist on YouTube.

Thank you!
Amanda Lanser
MSW librarian
amanda.c.lanser@gmail.com