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The cremation of Sam McGee
RSN:
61746
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Composition Date:
1991
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MV 6231 N619cr
Genre
Choir (9 + Voices) with Percussion and Keyboards
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2009-10-21
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
Tenor Voices I &II Baritone Voices Bass Voices Small percussion
Master Location
Toronto
Language
English
First line of Text
Strayne thing duhne
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
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Extent of Item
1 score (49 p.) + 1 part (3 p.) ;
Instrumentation
Found 5 record(s)
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Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
34013
Voices
Tenor
2
34013
Voices
Baritone
1
34013
Voices
Bass
1
34013
Percussion
Percussion
1
34013
Keyboard
Piano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
25/10/1991 Saskatchewan Music Educators Association North Battleford, Sask. Saskatoon Chamber Singers Conductor: Patricia Jamison, conductor
I received a commission from the Saskatchewan Music Educators Association to write a SATB choral piece for their honours youth choir.After I recieved the letter, the famous Canadian poem by Robert Service , "The Cremation of Sam McGee" got stuck in my head.I thought the students would get a kick out of a musical setting of it, as poem has been a staple in the school curriculum in Western Canada for generations.Unfortunately, the end result was much too long to learn in the short period of time the choir was able to be together, as the students had to assemble from all over the Province.However, the executive of the Educators' Association kindly asked the Saskatoon Chamber Singers to premiere the work at their annual convention in October, 1991, thus saving my hide. My own University's chorale performed it the next year under the direction of Dr.Earl Davie.The Columbian choir , under the direction of my sister Ann Nichols, performed the work at Alberta College in the spring of 1998. Dianna Ginn, the conductor of Prairie Blend, a mens' choir in Brandon, asked me if I would make a TTBB arrangement of the piece for her group in 2003.Dianna had been a member of the Brandon University Chorale when they performed it in 1992.The Blender's performed the TTBB version on Mothers' day, 2004, at St. Matthew' Cathedral, Brandon.In the SATB version, I had dropped a couple of verses, but in the mens' version, I used the complete text, and tweeked the ending. The form of the work is shaped into a big rondo, as Services' poetic lines and meter are consistant, making the mapping of previously written music onto succeeding verses easy to do.The use of the brake drum tries to approximate the sound of an old cast iron boiler heating up during the cremation scene, and the bongos add o the crazy atmosphere of the poem. Commissioned by: Saskatchewan Music Educators' Association
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