Gwyneth Walker. The Magic Oboe. for Oboe and Orchestra. Enchantment Tricks Evening Magic

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1 Gyneth Walker The Magic Ooe or Ooe and Orchestra Enchantment Tricks Evening Magic

2 Comosed or the Susquehanna Symhony Orchestra Sheldon Bair, Music Director and esecially or Ooist, udith amous Premiere: May 10, 200 Havre de Grace, Maryland Duration: 1 minutes Instrumentation: Ooe, lute, Bassoon, Trumet, Percussion, Strings Enchantment the orchestra creates gentle, loing atterns as i casting a sell o onder and magic, The ooe enters ith a theme o scalar descents, emellished ith grace notes. The orchestra and ooe intereave their atterns. Tricks the conductor ecomes a Magician, roudly earing a Magician's hat. The ooe attemts to conure u a rait rom the conductor's hat. Aha! The rait aears, and oins in conducting the orchestra! No, the ooe ecomes the Magician's Assistant, volunteering to e saed in hal (!). The ooe takes a seat ithin the orchestra (i.e., ithin the saing ox). A "saing theme" is layed in the loer strings. Vigorous oing ensues. A cry o terror is heard rom the ooe. The saing continues...ut, miraculously, the ooe survives and emerges intact. The Magician no roduces a large egg, roudly dislayed. Hoever, this is a sleight-o-hand trick. The egg vanishes, reaears in various laces ithin the orchestra, and makes a surrise inal aearance. Evening Magic sounds at dusk, a serenade, the sunset, stars, shooting stars. The quiet o evening unolds. ltimately, the magical rilliance o the night lends its energy to the music. Suggested ros or "Tricks" Small tale near Conductor, or ros Magician's Hat (or the Conductor) arge stued rait mounted on a ole to e raised u or audience vieing Small hand sa Cloth or scar on tale large lastic eggs (such as the kind hich came ith "'Eggs" stockings)

3 Ooe Solo 4 4 Gently loing, as i casting a sell o onder and magic q = The Magic Ooe or Ooe Solo and Chamer Orchestra 1. Enchantment A # Gyneth Walker C # # # # # B 4 2 # 25 # # E D # 9 # # # Coyright 200 MMB Music, Inc. (ASCAP), Saint ouis, MO, SA. All rights reserved. International rotection secured under CC, Buenos Aires, and ilateral coyright treaties.

4 H # G # N P n (rit.) #. # P # # n I # # Ooe Solo # # # rit. to end dim. # dim. #

5 2. Tricks a. The Rait in the Hat With ravura Ÿ~~~~~~~~~~~~ q 4 = º A m m B Ÿ~~~~~~~ 20 Ÿ~~~~~~~~ - - C # 8 4 D - - ^ 9 m E (The Ooist attemts to conure a rait rom the [conductor s] hat. Ooist may lay toards conductor and hat.) a temo q = º a e more times ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 rit. # # # # # - # # cresc. 5 G In celeration 0 Ooe Solo, grandly 2 # N m > > > > } P start sloly and accel. «~~~ very grandly Ÿ Ç #

6 4 steing orard to e saed in hal. ) reely, sloly (not conducted) # # m m oco accel.... m daintily, yet ith ravery (oco accel.)... oco cresc. # Ÿ~~~~~~~~ # (oco cresc.)... Ç >... A h = ith energy i B > 4 in terror! > > > 2 > C 28 cresc. 7 > > D 45 (cresc.) > i } > > > > > 4 } } > > > 51 # n # # # E Ooe Solo. Saing in Hal (The Ooist no ecomes the Magician s assistant n n > (Ooist stands u triumhantly having survived the saing.) 2 Ÿ

7 4 4 A at a triumhant temo! q = º 7 Ooe Solo 5 c. The Vanishing Egg B triumhantly Music in celeration o inding the egg D a temo q = º Triumhantly 29 m m m C Ooist inds and holds u the 'missing' egg, hich as erhas hidden on the music stand m m m m ' m m m m m m m m m m E Ÿ~~~~~~ Ÿ~~~~~~ 40 Ÿ~~~~ m m 45 m m m 49 > > >

8 Ooe Solo. Evening Magic With gentle motion, as the ading o daylight q = ºº Sounds at Dusk A Sloly, reely B 4 (Bsn. lays) (Tt. lays) (l. lays) 4 C 11 Serenade D q = º loing 4 m cantaile E m m m 4 42 G m 54 m 0 H m m 7 Ÿ~~~~~ Ÿ~~~~~~ Ÿ~~~~~ > > - - K I

9 m rit. long 107 M Sloer n n n 4-4 N Quickly, gathering energy O q = º (Tt. lays) 4 > > > > > > > > Ooe Solo 7 > > > > > > > > m > > > > > 142 > > accel. > } Q more quickly h = ª # # 2 2 } # # > > 151 # > # > R 157 # > # > > > > > > > > > i > > > S n > m n 11 # > n > # > n n > n > > n > n 15 # # n > n > n > T n } n } }

10 8 Ooe Solo 172 # # >.. } ith energy h = ºº > >. n >. > > > > > n > > > # 11 # n n 17 > V Sloly h = \ m 191 m m m 195 rit. m m W Start sloly and accel. 199 (accel.) cresc. # # X a temo h = ª 20 # # > > > 207 # # > > > n > > > > > 211 # > # > > > n ^ ^ ^ ^ > } 215 # # n n n n n n ƒ