Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Donald Grantham is currently a Professor of Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. His music has won many prestigious awards, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Orchestral Composition Prize, First Prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony’s Awards to American Composers, three First Prizes in the NBA/William Revelli Competition, two First Prizes in the ABA/Ostwald Competition, and First Prize in the National Opera Association’s Biennial Composition Competition.
His 4 movement work for wind ensemble, "Southern Harmony" consists of settings of four tunes taken from the shaped-noted songbook Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, compiled in 1835 by William Walker. Like Grainger before him, Grantham arranges the material with bold, exotic harmonies, innovative melodic and rhythmic treatments, novel instrumental effects (the chorus of hand clappers in the third movement is especially delightful), and vividly colorful orchestrations.
COMPOSER: Donald Grantham
CONDUCTOR: Eugene Migliaro Corporon
BAND: University of North Texas Wind Symphony
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - I. The Midnight Cry
2:23 - II. Wondrous Love
6:55 - III. Exhilaration
8:22 - IV. The Soldier's Return
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Donald Grantham is currently a Professor of Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. His music has won many prestigious awards, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Orchestral Composition Prize, First Prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony’s Awards to American Composers, three First Prizes in the NBA/William Revelli Competition, two First Prizes in the ABA/Ostwald Competition, and First Prize in the National Opera Association’s Biennial Composition Competition.
His 4 movement work for wind ensemble, "Southern Harmony" consists of settings of four tunes taken from the shaped-noted songbook Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, compiled in 1835 by William Walker. Like Grainger before him, Grantham arranges the material with bold, exotic harmonies, innovative melodic and rhythmic treatments, novel instrumental effects (the chorus of hand clappers in the third movement is especially delightful), and vividly colorful orchestrations.
COMPOSER: Donald Grantham
CONDUCTOR: Eugene Migliaro Corporon
BAND: University of North Texas Wind Symphony
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - I. The Midnight Cry
2:23 - II. Wondrous Love
6:55 - III. Exhilaration
8:22 - IV. The Soldier's Return
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
![Paul Cantrell — The Broken Mirror of Memory (2011) [w/ score]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fEXLrRnaYbU/mqdefault.jpg "Paul Cantrell — The Broken Mirror of Memory (2011) [w/ score]
This is Paul Cantrell’s 4-movement work for bass clarinet and piano, “The Broken Mirror of Memory.” Cantrell writes:
“Entanglement, soliloquy, tango, flight: each movement poses a problem from which the next unfolds. Themes continually resurface, transformed, as the music reinvents its own past – the endless process Gabriel García Márquez described as ‘piecing together the broken mirror of memory from so many scattered shards.’ The coda gathers everything together, grappling, burning down – and then, from the embers, a simple benediction emerges, present all along, now laid bare. We discover in retrospect that the music’s destination has always been its source. ‘The Broken Mirror of Memory’ was chosen as the winner of the International Clarinet Association’s Composition Competition in 2012.”
COMPOSER: Paul Cantrell
BASS CLARINET: Pat OKeefe
PIANO: Paul Cantrell
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Introduction
I. Entanglement
II. Soliloquy
III. Tango
IV. Flight
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