"Who has seen the wind?" [David Eisenband]

"Who has seen the wind?" [David Eisenband]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Eisenband, David; music (American, born 1987)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

2013 [composition]; 2014 [publication] [copyright]

genre: choral music

chorus: SATB voices with divisi

instrumentation: a cappella|piano (for rehearsal only)

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"

Tempo markings: "Tempo rubato"; quarter note = ca. 52

Performance instructions: The score starts with the instruction "like gusts of wind" following the tempo marking "Tempo rubato", with no time signature. "Performance notes: In addition to SATB, the piece calls for a 'Wind' part. Its notes, notated with X's, represent unvoiced wind-sounds. The wind part should consist of a few members of the choir, who may join their usual voice parts when possible. | C.I.A.D. stands for Continue Individual As Directed. After the choir holds the notes under the fermatas marked with C.I.A.D, the conductor should point to individual singers in sweeping fashion accross [sic] the choir, directing them to continue singing their parts individually. The note values are only meant to show relative duration, and singers may arrive at the normal fermatas end of their phrases ad libitum before being cut off together. The resulting dynamic swells should produce a gust-like effect in a spacial sense. | The oscillating notes surrounded by boxes and the lines marked ad lib. should be performed individually and may spill over the barlines. The boxed material should produce clustery, swelling, background sonorities. The ad lib. lines should produce canon-like melodic trails."

Performance history: Performed by the American Creators Chorus, with conductor Craig Hella Johnson, on July 2, 2013 in Beall Concert Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. As part of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. "Special thanks to Matthew Oltmann and Craig Hella Johnson." (“Who has seen the wind? 2013") (Campbell)
Performed by members of the University of Oregon choirs, with conductor David Eisenband, February 2014 in Beall Concert Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. As part of Eisenband’s Masters recital.
Performed by the Varsity Choir of Sheldon High School, with conductor David Eisenband, December 2016, Sheldon High School Auditorium, Eugene, OR. As part of the Sheldon Music Winter Choral Concert.
Performed by the Singers of New and Ancient Music (SONAM) Chorus, with conductor Allen Friedman, April 2017, in Durham, North Carolina.

Recordings: Eisenband, David. "Who has seen the wind? (2013)." Performance by American Creators Chorus, conducted by Craig Hella Johnson, conductor, 2 Jul. 2013, Beall Concert Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene. Bandcamp, https://davideisenband.bandcamp.com/track/who-has-seen-the-wind-2013. Accessed 13 Oct. 2020.
Eisenband, David. "Who Has Seen the Wind." Performance by American Creators Chorus, Craig Hella Johnson, conductor, 2013 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. SoundCloud, uploaded 31 Oct. 2013, https://soundcloud.com/deisenband/who-has-seen-the-wind.

Format 1: musical score

9 pages; performance time ca. 4 minutes

Other data reference(s): Campbell, Brett. "New Voices." Oregon ArtsWatch, 4 July 2013. Oregan ArtsWatch Archives, https://archive.orartswatch.org/new-voices/. Accessed 24 March 2022.
Eisenband, David. "Re: Discussing choral setting." Received by Mary Arseneau, 20 Oct. 2020.
“Who has seen the wind? (2013).” Bandcamp, https://davideisenband.bandcamp.com/track/who-has-seen-the-wind-2013. Accessed 13 Oct. 2020.

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: David Eisenband

Record: CRM-whohasseen-eisenband

File(s): CRM-whohasseen-eisenband.pdf

"© David Eisenband 2014." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer David Eisenband.

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