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DANIEL GILLIAM! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Commissioned by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony for their 85th season! Jason Weinberger, Artistic Director!
! SWEET RIVERS! !
The opportunity to write a new work to be premiered on the banks of a river offers a composer many opportunities for associations, from history to religion and spirituality, as well as the works the water has already inspired (Duke Ellington’s The River, The Moldau, Deep River, On the Beautiful, Blue Danube, etc). I could also draw on the cities where I have lived, almost exclusively built on major rivers: The Bío Bío (Chile), The Ohio and The Mississippi. This new work is at the same time all and none of this.! ! Sweet Rivers takes its name from a shape-note hymn (printed in The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion), but this isn’t an arrangement. This music is a meditation on all rivers, their persistent flow without regard for human events, their functional purpose and importance for our environment. The hymn provides some of the musical glue, pervading the music without being obvious - it’s the trees in the proverbial forest, occurring most prominently with horns heralding a moment in the hymn with the words, “I’d rise superior to my pain, with joy outstrip the wind.” Sweet Rivers is dedicated with gratitude to Jason Weinberger and the WaterlooCedar Falls Symphony and its 85th season.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! — Daniel Gilliam!
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INSTRUMENTATION
2 Flutes! 2 Oboes! 2 Clarinets in B-flat! 2 Bassoons!
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4 Horns in F! 2 Trumpets in B-flat! 2 Trombones! 1 Bass Trombone! 1 Tuba!
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Percussion (performed by 1 player)! ! Glockenspiel! ! Marimba!
! Harp! ! Piano! ! Strings! !
Duration: approximately 6 minutes!
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