The Hound of Heaven was the 1993 winner of both the Arnald Gabriel Award and National Band Association Composition Contest. It is based on British poet Francis Thompson’s poem of the same name.
Composer:
Year(s) Composed:
1988
Revisions: 1992
Difficulty:
Grade 5
Duration:
19 minutes
Instrumentation:
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Movements:
I. “I Fled Him, down the Nights”
II. “the gold gateways of the stars”
III. “Within the Little Childrens Eyes”
IV. “Nature’s – share With me”
V. “And smitten me to my knee”
VI. “I am He Whom thou seekest!”
Publication Information:
Ballerbach (1993)
Premiered:
Tom Kennedy/Wittenburg University Wind Ensemble, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1993.
Availability:
Available for Purchase