Composition Date: 2004
Duration: 00:14:00
Genre: Orchestra / Large Ensembles, Full Orchestra (20 or more)

Instrumentation:

Instrumentation Set Number 1:

• 2 x Flute
• 2 x Oboe
• 2 x Clarinet
• 3 x Bassoon
• 4 x Horn
• 2 x Trumpet
• 3 x Trombone
• 1 x Timpani
• 1 x Percussion
• 1 x Unknown electronic
• 1 x Unspecified bowed strings
• 1 x Chamber orch.

Instrumentation Set Number 2:

• 1 x Full orchestra

Programme Note:
THE SOLEMN LAND was composed in 2000 and premiered by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony that year; based on the painting by the same name by the Canadian Group-of-Seven artist JEH MacDonald, it depicts an austere and forbidding landscape on the Canadian Shield. Scored for full orchestra, the music proceeds at a deliberate tempo, slowly unfolding the various themes which will eventually rise to a tremendous climax, giving the impression of a brief but violent storm. The work has beem performed widely and is becoming a favoured member of the Canadian orchestral repertoire.

Premiere Information:
April 20, 2004, St. Mary's Church, Kitchener, Ontario; Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony; Andrew Nikuforuk, conductor.

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CATALOGUE INFO:

• Call Number:
• MI 1100 A265sol
• Genre:
• Orchestra / Large Ensembles, Full Orchestra (20 or more)
• Date of Acquisition:
• March 8, 2004
• Type:
• Print-music, Published by CMC
• Physical Description:
• 1 score (23 p.) ; 28 cm.
  23 Pages
  Height: 28 cm
  Width: 22 cm
  
• Additional Information:
• For orchestra.
  
  Photocopy; master of score in CMC Toronto.
  

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