Product Description
For concert band - grade 3. Duration: 4 min. 30 sec. To Celebrate Life is a joyous work, commissioned The Bridgeway Stonegate Concert Band (Sacramento, California) in honor of school shooting victims and people of the community of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Three themes are interwoven through the work - Time, Life, and Thought. A blog documents the writing of the work:
https://jeffreyhooverart.wixsite.com/mysite/bridgeway-stongate-commission
Written for an advanced jr. high/beginning high school band. 2 fl, ob, bssn, 2 cl, bcl, 2 asax, tsax, bsax, 2 tpt, F hrn, 2 trb, euph (with asax substitute), tuba, bass, bells, timp, 3 perc.
Jeffrey Hoover's work- music ranging from soloist to symphony orchestra -has received recognition through the prestigious Trieste prize, awards from Mu Phi Epsilon, the Lancaster Fine Arts Festival, the Luigi Russolo competition, grants, publications, fellowships, and more than 20 commissions. He is a member of the ACME roster of Mu Phi Epsilon, recognized for distinguished achievement as a composer. Frequently combining painting with composition, Hoover creates works that can be both seen and heard by the audience.
Hoover was born on September 11, 1959, in Anderson, Indiana. He holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts (Composition and Interdisciplinary Fine Arts) from Texas Tech University, as well as an M.M. and Bch.Sc. from Ball State University. His career in higher education has included both music faculty and arts administrative appointments.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.