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PROGRAM NOTE: Rosemary - "That's for remembrance...." In 1882, Sir Edward Elgar jotted down in his musical notebook a piano piece he titled Douce Pensée (Sweet Thought). There it remained until 1913 when he got it out again, revised it slightly, re-titled it Rosemary - "That's for remembrance," and published it for the first time. The title comes from Ophelia's "Garland Speech" in Shakespeare's Hamlet, where she says, "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
In 1915, the First World War had been raging in Europe for a year, and many British composers and poets had turned to artistic means to mourn those who died in the trenches of across the Channel. Elgar orchestrated the work at that time. In 1925, London publisher W. Paxton published arrangements by C. Jenkins made for "brass and reed band" and for "military band;" however, these are now out of print and no longer available.
In the fall of 2015, Mitch Sturman, director of the Wilson Junior High School "Warrior" Band in El Centro, California, asked me to make an arrangement of Rosemary for the Eighth Annual "Concert of Premieres," a series Sturman had begun in 2008, commissioning new works by known composers, and commissioning new arrangements of pieces he felt were worthy works in the public domain that were no longer in print and/or were written for ensembles containing instruments no longer part of the standard modern band or orchestra.
INSTRUMENTATION: Flute I (4), Flute II (4), Oboe (1), Clarinet I (4), Clarinet II (4), Clarinet III (4), Bass Clarinet (1), Bassoon (1), Alto Saxophone (4), Tenor Saxophone (2), Baritone Saxophone (1); Trumpet I (3), Trumpet II (3), French Horn (2), Baritone Horn T.C. (2), Baritone Horn B.C. (2), Trombone (6), Tuba (2); Timpani [F2, B-flat 2] (1), Snare Drum (1),Triange (1), Suspended Cymbal (1), Bass Drum (1), Glockenspiel (1). Joel Jacklich May 21, 2015 El Centro, California
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