Star!

Star!

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Composer Wittrock, Carl
Instumentation Concert Band
Grade 3
Duration

45:00

Genre Musical
Included Parts
  • Eb Horn 1-2
  • Piccolo
  • Flute
  • Oboe
  • Bassoon
  • Bb Clarinet 1-3
  • Bb Bass Clarinet
  • Eb Alto Saxophone 1-2
  • Bb Tenor Saxophone
  • Eb Baritone Saxophone
  • Bb Trumpet 1-3
  • F Horn 1-4
  • C Trombone 1-3
  • C Baritone (BC)
  • C Bass
  • Timpani
  • Mallets
  • Percussion 1
  • Percussion 2
  • Eb Horn 3-4
  • Bb Trombone (TC) 1-3
  • Bb Trombone (TC) 1-3
  • Bb Baritone (TC)
  • Bb Baritone (BC)
  • Eb Bass (TC)
  • Eb Bass (BC)
  • Bb Bass (TC)
  • Bb Bass (BC)
Format

Article

SMP-10-0016

Description

Description:

T.S. Eliot’s poem “Journey of the Magi” approaches the story of the birth of Christ from an unexpected angle: it offers the reader a detailed and realistic description of the journey that the Magi had to make in order to meet and worship a newborn King, followed by a shocking account of their emotions after having witnessed the event: “this Birth was hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.”Traveling as such is a central theme in the entire story of Christmas – Mary and Joseph themselves went to Bethlehem and on a more figurative level the Child itself, of course, embarks on His life’s journey.Going on a journey is the start of something new, but it is also an ending, for a traveller has to leave his
old, familiar life behind. All of us go on a similar journey, literally and figuratively, and we discover new things, but we lose something too: the “wiser” we get, the more the child in us is lost.“Star” is about the story of Christmas – about the miracle of the Birth of Christ, but also about the joy of new beginnings.

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