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TITLE: STORMWORKS Chapter 89: Worlds Within the World Click to see Score Notes & Sample Pages |
Perusal Score | SCORE & PARTS in PDF | Printed SCORE & PDF PARTS |
| 0:09:52 | Grade 5 | The Souls of Heaven | 40 | 95 | 110 |
| 0:09:27 | Grade 5 | At Dawn, a New Challenge for the Future of Humanity | 40 | 110 | 130 |
| 0:05:50 | Grade 4 | A Requiem of Two Poems (5:50 or 8:25 if using Poems) | 40 | 95 | 110 |
| 0:08:49 | Grade 4 Band Grade 6 Marimba | Concerto for Marimba & Band | 45 | 100 | 115 |
| 0:05:12 | Grade 5-6 | Scherzo, #1270 for Fanfare Orchestra (also Band) | 40 | 100 | 125 |
| 0:03:49 | Grade 4 | The Year of Sorrow… and the Tears of Allah | 30 | 80 | 90 |
| 0:17:00 | Grade 5-6 | The New Beginning (5 Sections) | 75 | 180 | Only in PDF |
| 0:18:14 | Grade 5-6 |
Concerto for Tuba (3 movements) |
75 | 180 | 220 |
| 0:04:14 | Grade 3-4 | In Your Eyes I See the World | 30 | 80 | 90 |
| 0:04:38 | Grade 4 | Ours are the Hours | 30 | 80 | 90 |
| 0:20:20 | Grade 5-6 |
Im Himmel Hore Ich Nun (I Hear Now in Heaven) (3 movements) |
75 | 150 | 200 |
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The Souls of Heaven
9:52 Grade 5 w/embedded 20-part Brass Fanfare
Click Here to see the Score Notes
#1214 o n 12/14 in 9:52 for Wind Symphony of the 3rd Millennium™
& 20-part Brass Fanfare Ensemble
by © Stephen Melillo IGNA 19 December 2019, 2nd & 3rd Millennium
Commissioned by
The Sunbury City Band
Thomas E. Gegenheimer, Director
After speaking with Tom Gegenheimer, we decided to set these private journal thoughts into the Score Notes. These timely words may help the Conductor see through to the intended Meaning of the Music. As with ALL Stormworks Music, this work is NOT programmatic. Pictures created are unique to each individual listener. For that reason, anything offered, in any set of Score Notes, is metaphoric.
Enjoy the Story & the SYNC in the Score Notes.
At Dawn ~Yoake~
A New Challenge for the Future of Humanity
From a letter written by Conductor, Jun Sato-san:
“Challenge to a hopeful future.” “Peaceful days, beautiful scenery, interrupted by the looming fear of Corona, the sudden confusion, the closed world, the anxiety about the future, the hearts of the people who go by. However, human beings have overcome all the difficulties so far. Eventually, “the dawn of a new earth”, a peaceful earth, the Victory of human beings.”
As you can see, Sato-san perfectly describes a “Storm” work, Music dedicated to the Brotherhood of Man and the proposition that after the Storm, comes Victory and Light!
Many thanks to the fine Musicians of Asahikawa Commercial High School, from Hokkaido, Japan, in celebration of their 100th year. The inspiration for this piece came from the kids themselves. And, of course, many thanks to Otomodachi, Jun Sato-san, a wonderful Conductor and Sensei-Teacher who has done so much for his student Musicians. This piece is about him as well. As he retires, he looks back at his Life. His American friend, through Music, asks him to see in himself, the great “Warrior-Poet-Scholar-Artist” this work honors.
Ganbarimassu, Shimijimito & Godspeed!
Steve-san! Composer
A Requiem of Two Poems
5:50 for Grade 4 Band
Commissioned by
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Concert Band
Dr. Thomas E. Reynolds, Collin J. Myers, Jonathan O. Schmidt, Conductors
Our Story...
On 24 FEB 2022, the gentleman who allowed me to use his photograph for the Score-cover of The Concerto for Tuba, posted a Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The war-time poem was laden with hurt and pain, loneliness and sorrow. I composed Musical Haiku #113.
Mere hours later, Ukraine was invaded. Friends and descendants from Ukraine wrote. One first-generation Ukrainian wrote, “I have a 16-year-old girl from Ukraine with me as part of an exchange. She is separated from her family, now under attack.”
Poetry & War… Moments later, after learning of the attack on Ukraine, I discovered another Poem by the Ukrainian Poet, Taras Shevchenko. The work was retitled, “A Requiem of Two Poems.”
Catherine L. Geach, for whom was composed, “Lonely is the Knight” from Chapter 1-Prime: Wish to the World some 23 years ago, the Dame-Mary-like Woman who created a school for war-torn orphans in Cambodia, listened to the new piece. ‘Hearing’ the Music, she presented me with a Violin recording made while on her knees in Prayer. A video of this Violin version was posted on YouTube.
Only hours after composing, then the invasion, then the violin recording, and posting, the piece was played at The Church of Berezdizi near Lviv, Ukraine.
Not only was the Music played in the Church but all around Ukraine including areas under attack and even during Prayer for Ukrainian soldiers before going into battle. One must marvel at the workings of God... for most assuredly, the Music, its Purpose, and its rapid spreading in Ukraine and beyond, were and remain in His hands.
On 15 Mar 2022, Dr. Thomas Reynolds of M.I.T., listened to the Violin version and requested a new version for what I call Band of the 3rd Millennium™.
As You listen, what is your prayer? What is your wish for this world within the world?
Here now, that work is humbly offered. These OPTIONS extend the many possibilities built into a live rendering of this work:
1. The Ukrainian Poem, and or both Poems may be read prior to playing the piece.
2. Bars 9-45 may be repeated. On the first iteration, only the HARP plays while the Poem(s) are read. When it is time to bring in the full ensemble, use the beat 4, HORN Solo pick-up note to bar 9, and play the piece as written. This optional inclusion of a new element, namely a “Piece for Poem & Harp” effectively extends the work to a new duration of 8:25.
Concerto for Marimba & Band
#1314 for Marimba (Grade 6 & Grade 4 Band) of the 3rd Millennium™
There is also a version for Marimba & Percussion Ensemble, arr. by Anderson Matos
Commissioned by, The “Musique Militaire Grand-ducale” of the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg
and their conductor, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Claude Braun.
Brief History
I had always wanted to compose a piece for Marimba and Band. It wasn’t until a congruence of three events, all occurring literally within two days, that I was finally compelled to pull the pen.
1. I saw a video of the Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps front line rehearsing Godspeed. I marveled at their technical chops. The 5 octave Marimbas cried out.
2. A friend from South America named Anderson Matos said, “you should write a piece for Marimba.”
3. Stephen Syrell, who helped me with the notation of the Marimba part and had me try Dorico as a typesetting program for the first time, had also said, “you should write a piece for Marimba.” Steve has a beautiful rosewood Marimba in his home. He too, was in my mind when, as SYNC and the wonders of the Universe would have it, I received a text. Halfway into this piece, Steve and Lindsey had their 3rd child, Chloe! The piece had to be in C and documented as a work written while she was born. Chloe is the newest daughter of a percussionist and... a Marimba player.
Originally, I had thought of subtitling the piece, “These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls.” Yes. But then, there’s Chloe, and really, all children continually bring new dreams and wishes and Hopes into the world. Chloe is born into a Great Family, but also into a world that tries Souls. We wish Chloe and all of us born into this Beautiful, but often treacherous world, the best!
Scherzo
5:12 for Grade 5-6 Band and/or Fanfare Orchestra
On 15 July in 1799 – The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. It was also the Birthday of Rembrandt in 1606.
On 29 July in 1958 – NASA was created.
Energy! Human Energy! A piece for the Great Human Adventure!... Lived and yet to be lived! Though this physically demanding Music is its own Story, and I remain novel-less in describing it, this quote by Saint Francis, which did not inspire the Music, nevertheless points to one of the many messages within the piece, a world within the world.
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” — St. Francis of Assisi
Enjoy the Story. Every so often close your eyes, and picture your story, your battles, your adventures…
Enjoy the Journey & Godspeed! S
The Year of Sorrow & the Tears of Allah
3:49 for Grade 4 band
In the Islamic tradition, the Year of Sorrow (Arabic: نزحلا ماع , romanized: ‘Ām al-Huzn, also translated Year of Sadness) is the Hijri year in which Muhammad’s wife Khadijah and his uncle and protector, Abu Talib died. The year approximately coincided with 619 CE, or the tenth year after Muhammad’s first revelation.
Surely, for Muhammad, it was a year of Suffering, Sadness, and Sorrow. For this reason and more I have composed this work. “The Year of Sorrow... and the Tears of Allah” is related to the Grade 6 work, Hajj, which appears on the STORMJourneys Album. This ©2022 work provides greater access to the same harmonic and color-rich language of the Hajj, but for Grade 4 Bands. In fact, this work may be considered a 1st movement of what you might one day render as, Hajj in 2 movements.
These quotes from THE PROPHET by Kahlil Gibran, not only inspired the “Music” but, as you will see, also the Orchestration.
“Shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?”
“And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.”
“Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?”
“Even as the strings of the lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”
“The freest song comes not through bars and wires.”
As it was for writing Hajj, I wanted to extend the hand of Love & Brotherhood to my Brothers and Sisters of Islam. The 99 names of Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, God, Father... all are but different callings for the One God who created Existence and each of us. Because our world is so unnecessarily divided by the very diverse Creativity of Allah, certainly, He sheds tears for us. That is the reason for this Music. It is to illustrate His point of view. He sees us as One while we see ourselves as divided. But one day, and each of us knows this deep within, Love shall prevail. We will walk the Earth as Brothers and Sisters. Until then, as Allah weeps, so also do we.
Godspeed!
Stephen Melillo