II. In Flanders Fields
For SATB Choir, Flute, Bells, and Piano (5:00)
Gladde Music Publications
Choral Score (GMP0204)
- $2.15
Instrumental Parts (Flute, Bells) (GMP0204X)
- $9.00
Jointly commissioned by the
Fresno State Chamber Singers (Anna Hamre, Director)
and Chico State Chamber Singers
(Jeffrey Gemmell, Director) of
California State University....
a dramatic, powerful choral
statement about the anger and chaos of war!
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The poem, In Flanders Fields, was written in 1915 by Lt. Col. John McCrae, a Canadian officer who died in 1918 of pneumonia while serving in the medical corps. This poem is considered one of the most memorable war poems ever written. McCrae died in the battlefields of France, only months before the war ended. |
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The
mood of the music captures the sadness of the
poem. Instrumental devices in the flute and bells are used
to enhance images suggested by the words of the poem. The
flute employs a haunting flutter-tonguing in its low register as well
as pitch-bending. The bowing of Crotales adds an eeriness
to the texture.
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England's radio host Philip Knighton has broadcast Brad Nelson's "In Flanders Fields" throughout the world from Taunton, Somerset in the United Kingdom! |
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Streaming video!)
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