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Invocation and Dance

Conte, David

SKU
4378*
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Grouped product items
Product Name Qty
Invocation and Dance (Choral Score) - 4378
$3.35
Invocation and Dance (Downloadable Choral Score) - file_4378-E *Downloadable choral octavo minimum order quantity is 6.
$3.35
Invocation and Dance (SATB Full Score Version II) - 4378A
$40.00
Invocation and Dance (Piano Part Version II) - 4179Q
$38.85
Invocation and Dance (Downloadable Piano Part Version II) - file_4179Q-E
$38.85
Invocation and Dance (Percussion Parts Version II) - 4179P
$16.70
Invocation and Dance (Downloadable Percussion Parts Version II) - file_4179P-E
$16.70
More Information
SKU4378*
Composer/ArrangerConte, David
Text AuthorWhitman, Walt
Voicing & InstrumentsSATB, Chamber Orchestra or Piano
DifficultyModerately Difficult
Reviews"Invocation and Dance sets words from Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and it was written for the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in 1986. Conte created this version for mixed chorus a few years later. It begins with Whitman's line, 'Come lovely and soothing death,' and the piano's golden high notes are brightened further with glockenspiel and vibraphone while bass octaves pulse in a funeral march. The 'Dance' [is] a Berstein-esque setting in compound meter." - Stephen Estep, The American Record Guide, November/December 2016. Used by permission.
PublisherE. C. Schirmer Music Company
Recording CreditsTowson University Chorale, Paul Rardin, conductor
Based on a text drawn from Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom'd." A hymn to nature and the place of death within the cycle of life on earth. Invocation and Dance is included on the album "Facing West: Choral Music of Conrad Susa and David Conte." Duration: 13:00