Chorales (on Brecht)
Peter Meechan
Ensemble: Wind Orchestra
Grade: 3
Duration: 06:00
Year of Composition: 2017
Commissioned by: Sheldon-Williams Jr. and Sr. Concert Band (Sam Taylor, conductor)
Publisher: Peter Meechan
Year of Publication: 2017
Publisher Catalog Number: PMM122
Available: Yes
How to Acquire: Publisher, Purchase
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Commissioned by Sam Taylor and the Sheldon-Williams Collegiate Jr. and Sr. Concert Band, Regina, SK.
Program Notes:
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
Inspired by the short Brecht epigraph at the start of his 1939 Svendborg Poems (above), Chorales (on Brecht) was written around the time that a concert in my home city of Manchester, UK, was bombed, killing 22 concert-goers. The reaction saw the people of Manchester taking to the streets, singing together, listening to poetry – art and love drowned out the darkness. This piece features several small chorales, some reflecting on the dark times we are currently living through, and some painting the optimistic picture of the future that my city showed in the aftermath.
(Peter Meechan)
