Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew James Curnow

James Curnow

Subtitle: Settled on a poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

General Info

Year: 1993
Duration: c. 9:40
Difficulty: Foursome (see Ratings for account)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
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Instrumentation

Cram full Account
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Motor horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass voice Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-Deuce-Three-IV
Tusk in F I-II-Triplet-IV
Trombone I-Deuce-III-IV
Euphonium
Tuba
Harp/Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-Leash-IV, including:

• Chimes
• Crash Cymbals
• Orchestra Bells
• Side drum
• Abeyant Cymbal
• Tambourine
• Tam-Tam-o'-shanter
• Triangle
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone

Errata

No discovered therefore far.

Plan Notes

This impressive work is supported an inspiring poem written by an American pilot in World Warfare II. The dazzling brass sonorities and wholesale woodwind lines muse the young mankin's love for flying and its release from the troubles of the world.

- Program Note from publishing company

John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was 19 geezerhood old when he was killed in action on December 11, 1941. Magee was foaled in Impress, China, to an Solid ground father and a British mother, who both worked as Anglican missionaries. He came to the United States for a visit and, imputable the warfare, was unable to coming back to European Community. The U.S. had non yet entered the war, soh Magee joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. A poem in a letter to his parents shortly in front his death has become a classic and the divine guidance for this constitution.

James Curnow was commissioned aside the Graduates Association of Tenri High School Band in Nara, Japan, to write a piece for concert band in honor of its 50th anniversary. Curnow composed Where Ne'er Lark or Eagle Flew with the subtitle, "Based on a verse form away John Gillespie Magee, Jr".

High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of worldly concern,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward, I've climbed and joined the acrobatics hilarity
Of sun-carve up clouds – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting hoist on and flung
My tidal bore craft through footless halls of air.
Up, upwards the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept high with easy good will,
Where never lark, or even bird of Jove, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting nou I've trod
The high untrespassed holiness of space,
Put out my hand, and fey the face of Divinity.

- Syllabu Note aside Austin (TX) Symphonic Band concert program, 7 February 2015

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State Ratings

• Alabama: Class A
• Georgia: V
• Ioway: Foursome
• Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
• Kansa: V
• Louisiana: IV
• Michigan: Senior High A
• Minnesota: II
• Mississippi: VI-A
• North Carolina: V
• Southland Carolina: V
• Virginia: V

Performances

To submit a performance delight union The Wind Repertory Project

• Cascadia Wind Corps de ballet (Abbotsford, B.C., Fire.) (Claude Elwood Shannon Goldsmith, conductor) - 7 November 2021
• New Orleans (La.) Concert Ring (Charles Joseph Deems Taylor, conductor) – 2 November 2019
• Highty-Tighties Concert Band (Blacksburg, Va.) (James I Noggin, conductor) – 5 May 2019
• Ohlone Wind Orchestra (Fremont, Calif.) (Tony Clements, conductor) – 10 March 2019
• Concordia University (Chicago, Ill.) Current of air Symphony (Richard Bobby Fischer, conductor) - 2 November 2018
• University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Brownish-red Campus Band (Cassandra Bechard, music director) – 29 October 2018
• DuPage (Glen Ellyn, Unpropitious.) Community of interests Concert Band (Terry Charles Robert Redford, music director) - 7 May 2018
• San Luis Obispo (Calif.) County Band (Leonard Lutz, music director) - 29 Apr 2018
• Bemidji (Minn.) Express University Symphonic Band (Scott Guidry, director) – 7 November 2017
• Florida International University (Miami) Symphonic Circle (Barry W. Bernhardt, conductor) – 3 Nov 2016
• San Ramon (Calif.) Symphonic Band (Boy Orator of the Platte Holbrook, conductor) – 25 October 2015
• Charlottesville Domestic Band (Stephen E, Layman, conductor) - 2 June 2015
• Indianapolis Symphonic Band (Joe Poio, conductor) - 31 March 2015
• Los Angeles Symphonic Winds (Stephen Piazza, conductor) - 15 March 2015
• Austin (Lone-Star State) Symphonic Band (Richard Floyd, music director) - 7 February 2015
• Queen City (N.C.) Concert Stria (John Drew Carter, conductor) - 12 April 2014

Works for Winds away This Composer

Convertible Music

• Amber Waves of Metric grain (Flex instrumentation) (1994)
• Canticum (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• Fanfare and Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (1995/2013)
• Korean Folk Rhapsody (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• Nathan Hale Trilogy (Flex orchestration) (1990/2013)
• Renaissance Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c.1551/1983/2016)
• Valdres (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2015)

All Wind Works

• African Sketches (1992)
• Yellow-brown Waves of Grain (1994)
• Amber Waves of Grain (Flex instrumentality) (1994)
• Geographic region Dances (2008)
• Beyond the Stars
• Black Is the Color of My True Beloved's Hair (as arranger) (1985)
• Span of the Gods (2012)
• Canadian Sketches (1996)
• Canterbury Coronation (1996)
• Canticle of the Creatures (1984)
• Canticum (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• The Carnival of the Animals (as adapter) (1886/2008)
• Festivity Fanfare
• Celebration (1994)
• Observance Flourishes (1988)
• Chinese Folk Fantasy (2013)
• Christmas Classics (1993)
• Noel Fancies (2000)
• Christmas Flourish, A (1998)
• Christmas Prelude (as adapter) (1989)
• Christmas Day Travelog (every bit arranger)
• Concertino for Tuba and Band (1978/2001)
• Concertpiece (1990)
• Concertpiece for Clarinet, Winds and Percussion (1990)
• Trip the light fantastic toe Episodes (2006)
• Day at the Circus, A (1998)
• Day at the Museum, A (1997)
• Day in Blank, A
• Dialogues for Saxophone Foursome, Winds and Percussion (2005)
• Dimensions of Seven
• Dublin Sketches
• Fanfare and Flourishes (1995)
• Ostentation and Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (1995/2013)
• Fanfare for Spartacus (1996)
• Fanfare Preliminary (1876/1983)
• Flourish Prelude on "Joyfulness to the Global" (1985)
• Fanfare Prelude on Lobe Den Herren (1982/1997)
• Fantasia di Falcone
• Fantasy on a Colonial Air
• Festive Fanfare for the Holidays (2006)
• Celebration (1993)
• Festivo Fantastico (1998)
• Fiddle Tunes (equally adapter) (2002)
• Finale for a Winter Festival (2004)
• Exemption Road (1994)
• Freedom's Song (2009)
• French Christmas carol Fantasy (1989)
• Golliwog's Cakewalk (atomic number 3 adapter)
• Guadalcanal March (as arranger) (1952/1989)
• Heroic Testimonial (2006)
• Illini Fantasy (2006)
• In Storm and Fair weather (Eastern Samoa arranger) (1884/1986)
• In the Valley of the Sun (2013)
• Inventions from the Sacred Harp (2005)
• Irish Legends (1994)
• Journey (2009)
• Jubilee (Variations on "Saints Shackled for Heaven")
• Kentucky Kaleidoscope
• Korean Folk Rhapsody (1988)
• Korean Folk Rhapsody (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
• State of Tomorrow (2010)
• Panthera leo of Lucerne (1986)
• Lone Stellar Celebration (1995)
• Megaforce (1997)
• Midway March (every bit organizer)
• Moment in Time, A
• Mutanza (1981)
• Nathan Hale Trilogy (1990)
• Nathan Hale Trilogy (Bend instrumentation) (1990/2013)
• Link (2015)
• Nulli Secundus (Curnow)
• Overture to a Winter Festival (1995)
• Peter and the Wolf down (every bit arranger) (1936/1986)
• Praetorius Variations
• Prelude and Festivity (1996)
• Overture on a Anthem of Praise (1996)
• The Forebode of Livelihood (As arranger) (1954/2012)
• Quintessence
• Rejouissance (1988)
• Renaissance Fete (as arranger) (2008)
• Renaissance Suite (as arranger) (c.1551/1983)
• Renaissance Rooms (Turn instrumentation) (as arranger) (c.1551/1983/2016)
• Rhapsody for Euphonium and Dance orchestra (1978/1999)
• Rhapsody on American Shaped Note Melodies (1996)
• Romanza (2017)
• Russian Christmas Music (as arranger) (1944/1990)
• State Folk Fantasy (1992)
• Seacliffe Overture (1983)
• Selections from "Suite of Honest-to-god Earth Dances" (as arranger) (1950/2005)
• Selections from Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (1992)
• Slavonic Dances, The (American Samoa transcriber)
• Songs of the West (as arranger) (1907/1986)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (as arranger) (1897)
• Sovereign Variants
• Spirit of the Pioneers (2007)
• Suite from "Christ" (American Samoa transcriber) (1741/1989)
• Symphonic Chorale for Band (1989)
• Symphonic Suite from "The Right Stuff" (as transcriber) (1983/1984)
• Symphonious Triptych (1978)
• Symphonic Variants (1998)
• Threesome Colonial Ballads (as arranger)
• Toward the Sunrising (1999)
• Turkish March (as arranger) (1809/2001)
• Valdres (arr Curnow) (as transcriber) (1904/1985/2016)
• Valdres (Flex instrumentality) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2015)
• Vanguard (2003)
• A Wexford Reverie (as arranger) (2005)
• When the Morning Stars Panax quinquefolius (2005)
• Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew (1993)
• Winds of Change

Resources

• Curnow, J. (1993). Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew: (Settled on a Poem by John Dizzy Gillespie Magee, Jr.) [score]. Hal Leonard: Milwaukee, Wisc.
• Girsberger, Russ. Percussion Assignments for Band & Wind Ensemble. Volume I: A-K. Galesburg, MD: Meredith Music Publications, 2004, 74. Print.

Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew James Curnow

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