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Rocky Point Holiday
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General Info
Year: 1969
Duration: 5:30
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts - $110.00 | Score Only - $21.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Eb Alto Clarinet
Bb Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Bb Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Harp
Celesta
Percussion (4-5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-Tam)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
The following errors are in the PARTS:
- Clarinets, 3/4 bar six measures from the end, rhythm should be 8th, 8th, dotted quarter, 8th instead of quarter, quarter, dotted quarter, 8th.
- Trombone I, Rehearsal Number 2 should be twelve bars after Rehearsal Number 1 instead of six.
- Euphonium, six bars after Rehearsal Number 23 should be solo until Rehearsal Number 24.
Program Notes
Rocky Point Holiday was a commission from Frank Bencriscutto and the University of Minnesota band for a tour of Russia. It was composed between 1968 and 1969. Bencriscutto had heard Nelson's orchestral work Savannah River Holiday and decided he wanted something virtuosic to take with him on the Russian tour. When asked about the limitations of the band, Bencriscutto told him there were none. "I'm going to write a tremendously difficult piece" Nelson warned him. "That's fine" replied Bencriscutto, and thus Rocky Point Holiday was born. Nelson says "this was a pivotal moment in my notion of wind ensemble scoring, in which I focused on orchestrating in an extremely transparent way."
The bulk of the work on the composition occurred while Nelson was on vacation at a Rhode Island seaside resort. Rocky Point is an amusement park over a hundred years old, located in Warwick Neck, RI. It was closed down in the mid-1990s due to a lack of funds.
-Program Note by Nikk Pilato
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
- Arkansas: VI
- Florida: VI
- New York: VI
- Texas: V
Recent Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Fresno City College Wind Ensemble (Dale Engstrom, conductor) - 17 March 2013 (34th Sutherland Wind Festival, Fresno, Calif.)
- Knightwind Ensemble [Milwaukee, Wisc.] (Erik Janners, conductor) - 18 November 2012
- Indiana Wind Symphony (Charles Conrad, conductor) - 26 February 2012
- Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble (Joshua Roach, conductor) - 5 May 2013
- Los Angeles Pierce Symphonic Winds (Stephen Piazza, music director, Joshua Roach, guest conductor) - 19 May 2013
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Aspen Jubilee
- Brevard Fanfare
- Chaconne (In Memoriam…)
- Concerto for Piano & Symphonic Band
- Courtly Airs and Dances
- Danza Capriccio
- Epiphanies (Fanfares and Chorales)
- Fanfare for a Celebration
- Fanfare for Kennedy Center
- Fanfare for the Hour of Sunrise
- Fanfare for the New Millennium
- Lauds (Praise High Day)
- Mayflower Overture
- Medieval Suite
- Morning Alleluias
- Nightsong
- Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
- Pastorale: Autumn Rune
- Pebble Beach Sojourn
- Resonances I
- Rocky Point Holiday
- Savannah River Holiday
- Sonoran Desert Holiday
- Te Deum Laudamus
- To the Airborne
Additional Resources
Structural Analysis (Joshua Roach): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77764955/WindRepProject-Materials/Nelson-RockyPoint-Analysis.pdf
