World Music

World Music2017-03-13T19:19:09+00:00

Project Description

Symphony Orchestra
2002
8 min.

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Listen Now

Montana 2014 All-Star Orchestra, Dr. Luis Millán, cond.
live recording from UMSO on 29 October, 2014

 

Instrumentation

Fl-2(1»Picc) Ob-2 BbCl-2 BCl Bsn-2 | Hn-2 Tpt-3 Tbn-2 BTbn Tuba | Vln-2 Vla Vc DB | Timp Perc-2

  • Flute (2) (one player doubles Piccolo)
  • Oboe (2)
  • Clarinet in B♭ (2)
  • Bass Clarinet in B♭
  • Bassoon (2)
  • Horn in F (2)
  • Trumpet in B♭ (3)
  • Trombone (2)
  • Bass Trombone
  • Tuba
  • Violin (2)
  • Viola
  • Violoncello
  • Double Bass
  • Timpani
  • Required Percussion (2 players)
    • Marimba
    • Vibraphone
    • Xylophone
    • Chimes
    • Orchestra Bells
    • Bass Drum
    • Suspended Cymbal (sm.)
For wind ensembles and concertos, please use one player per part. For symphonies and concert pieces, more players may be used as desired. David’s full statement.

Commissioned by

the Missoula Youth Symphony Orchestra, Pam Hillygus, conductor.

Program Note

From The Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami:

“Know thyself.” This has been the advice through the ages of philosophers who were quite aware that our self is what organizes the world and gives it meaning; to know the self along with nature was their comprehensive objective. Modern science’s embracing of material realism changed all that; instead of being united with nature, consciousness became separate from nature, leading to a psychology separate from physics. This minimalist world view exiled us from the enchanted world in which we lived, and condemned us to an alien world. Now we live like exiles in this alien land; who but an exile would risk destroying this beautiful earth with nuclear war and environmental pollution?

World Music was written for the Missoula, Montana Youth Symphony Orchestra. It is a single movement, very open and engaging piece. The title World Music comes from a desire to embrace the whole world with musical sound. This piece is dedicated to my belief that music making can release and alter violence, and in so doing, eventually transform the whole world. I wish all of us to be part of that transformation.

Program note by David Maslanka

Further Reading

Maslanka Weekly: Best of the Web – No. 72, Life

5 November 2019|0 Comments

Maslanka Weekly highlights excellent performances of David Maslanka’s music from around the web. This week, we feature three of David’s compositions that focus on the spirit of life and living: Unending Stream of Life, Traveler, and “Movement 4” from A Child's Garden of Dreams.

Maslanka Weekly: Best of the Web – No. 69, Dream Space

15 October 2019|0 Comments

Maslanka Weekly highlights excellent performances of David Maslanka’s music from around the web. This week, we feature three of David’s compositions (of which there are literally dozens to choose from) that explore a vast array of dream space: A Child's Garden of Dreams, Traveler, and California.

Maslanka Weekly: Best of the Web – No. 48, Water Music

20 May 2019|0 Comments

Maslanka Weekly highlights excellent performances of David Maslanka’s music from around the web. This week, we continue to look at more of David's music that uses water as a symbol or motif: A Child's Garden of Dreams, Sea Dreams: Concerto for Two Horns and Wind Ensemble, and UFO Dreams: Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble, Movement II - "The Water is Wide."

Maslanka Weekly: Best of the Web – No. 39, Dreams & Meditations

18 March 2019|0 Comments

Maslanka Weekly highlights excellent performances of David Maslanka’s music from around the web. This week, we feature three compositions that specifically mention "dreaming" or "meditation" in their title: A Child's Garden of Dreams, Movement I, Sea Dreams: Concerto for Two Horns and Wind Ensemble, Movement III, and Recitation Book, Movement I, "Broken Heart: Meditation on the chorale melody Der du bist drei in einigkeit."