American Highlands |
composer: | Nancy Galbraith (2025) | |
genre: | wind ensemble | |
length: | 1 movement, 8:30 minutes | |
orchestration: | 2fl, 2ob, 2cl, b-cl, 2bn;
2a-sax, t-sax, bar-sax; 4tpt, 4hn, 2tbn, b-tbn, euph, tba; piano, 4perc |
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publisher: | Subito Music Publishing (ASCAP)
60 Depot Street, Verona, NJ 07044 mail@subitomusic.com • 973-857-3440 |
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world premiere: | 23 April 2025
Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble • Stephen Story, conductor Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) • Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA |
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program notes: | American Highlands is inspired by the early American tradition of The Sacred Harp ("shape-note") choral singing, thus featuring areas of wide tonal harmonies with open fifths, and an overall spirit of exhuberance and joyous innocence. —Martha Tablewight |
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source: | nancygalbraith.com |
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