On Tis Bright Morning was commissioned by a consortium led by James Smart of the University of Montana. Tis music is gratefully dedicated to him and to the following Montanabased consortium members: Anderson Middle School
Jeffrey Vick
Beaverhead Co. High School
Chris Kloker
Big Sky High School
Dylan Dwyer
Billings Central Catholic High School Billings Senior High School Billings Skyview High School Billings West High School
Codie Wahrman Jeff Long Aaron Roberts Steve Patton
Bozeman High School
Kelly Berdahl
Charles M. Russell High School
Russ Kellogg
Dawson County High School
odd Nasa
Eastern Class A Band Festival
Various
Fergus High School Flathead Valley Community Band
Karl Ortman Matt King
Florence-Carlton School
Jennifer Kirby
Great Falls High School
Jeff McBirnie
Kalispell Schools Hellgate High School Huntley Project High School Malta High School
Allen Slater & David Barr Leon Slater Aaron Morgenstern Erik Engebretson
Missoula Community Band
Tomas rigg
Montana State University
Nathan Stark
Nashua High School
Jenna Johnson
Polson High School
Rich Sawyer
Rocky Mountain College
ony Hammond
Ronan High School
Alicia Lipscomb
Roundup High School Seeley-Swan School
Sofia anberg Bob Green
Sentinel High School
Gary Gillett
Shepherd High School
Kari Drange
Stevensville High School
Jeremy Ruff
Stillwater Christian School ri-County Honor Band . Washington Middle School West Yellowstone High School Whitefish High School
Matt King Kathleen Ruff et al. Matt ipton Nancy McPherson Mark McCrady
Program note Tere are times o stability in lie, and times o significant transition. ransitions can be upsetting, ofen provoked or accompanied by physical or emotional troubles. Tey are times o uncertainty and unknowing, but also the times o g reatest creative change. On Tis Bright Morning acknowledges the struggle, and the eelings o pain and loss in times o transition, but embodies the pure joy o realizing the bigger lie. On this bright morning, li e is new, lie is possible. Te ollowing is rom a Bill Moyers interview with poet Jane Kenyon, who suffered rom chronic depression and died o leukemia at age ��: Yes, there are things in lie that we must endure that are all but unendurable, and yet I eel that there is a great goodness. Why, when there could have been nothing, is there something? How, when there could have been nothing, does it happen that there is love, kindness, beauty? (December ����) ����� ��������
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Instrumentation On Tis Bright Morning may be perormed successully with a wide variety o ensemble sizes, rom a single player on each part to a large symphonic band. Each part (including multiple copies) is separately labeled. Te ollowing indicates the part number and the number o copies included with the ull set: No. � �–� �–� ��–�� ��–�� ��–�� ��–�� ��–��
Part Name Piccolo Flute � Flute � Oboe
Copies � � � �
Clarinet in B � Clarinet in B � Clarinet in B � Bass Clarinet in B
Bass Drum * Orchestra bells may be used in place o crotales. † Any piece o metal that produces a bright ringing tone may be used in place o the anvil.