click for larger image

Title	Hanukkah Gift, The
Article no.	4036396
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Hanukkah
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Country of publication	USA (us)
Publisher *	click here
Publisher's article no. *	click here
Composer	Osmon, Leroy
Difficulty level	2
Duration	3:20
Additional info/contents	The Hanukkah Gift was composed as a gift for a friend who had given me a very special gift for the Jewish Holiday 'Hanukkah'. I wanted to compose something that was equally as beautiful yet uniqueli different. The 'feel' of this composition is that of a very traditional Hebrew melody, yet I wanted to keep the textures light and holding to the more 'contemporary' style of my compositions from the early- and mid-1990's. Scoring is thin and percussion is limited to four parts. There are a great number of meter changes, allowing students to explore and experience unusual time signatures. The entire work should be conceived as rubato with a continuous forward flow. The ending returns to the original Hebrew melody in the horn; with percussion and upper winds that seem to float off into the distance. The composer
Sound sample *	click here
Listen to this in the Musicainfo Radio *	click here
Available	yes

	Format
	Hanukkah Gift, The (concert/wind band)
	Day of the Dead: The Music of Leroy Osmon #3, audio CD

To order this item please log in (click here).

* Fields with a star are only visible for club members after registration.

In order to listen to the sound samples you need an MP3 player, which you can download free, for example: