Winter Was Hard
Four guitars or guitar ensemble
- Duration
- 4 min
- Level
- Intermediate
- Premiere
- Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival Orchestra, Jon Marshall, conductor, St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 23 March 2025
- Commissioned by
- Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival
- Publisher
- Sacred Black Publications, SBP 2503
$15PDF score, parts and an audio demo track
Buy the scoreAbout the music
Winter Was Hard was written for the 2025 Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the festival orchestra gave the premiere under Jon Marshall. It is written for four guitars or a full guitar ensemble at an intermediate level, with some changes of meter.
In its first year the piece was taken up by the Guitar Foundation of America Community Guitar Orchestra, the Classical Guitar Retreat Guitar Orchestra in Scotland, the Interlochen Classical Guitar Intensive, the Florida Guitar Festival Orchestra and the Glendale Community College Guitar Ensembles.
The download includes the full score, individual parts and an audio demo track for rehearsal.
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Sample pages
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Performances
- — Glendale Community College Guitar Quartet, GCC Performing Arts Center, Glendale, AZ
- — Glendale Community College Guitar Ensembles, Chuck Hulihan, director, GCC Performing Arts Center, Glendale, AZ
- — Florida State University Guitar Ensemble, Jacob Wicks, director, Lindsay Recital Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
- — Florida Guitar Festival Orchestra, Celso Cano, conductor, Florida Guitar Festival, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
- — Classical Guitar Retreat Guitar Orchestra, Roberto Kuhn Versluys, conductor, Classical Guitar Retreat, Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews, Scotland
- — GFA Community Guitar Orchestra, Chuck Hulihan, conductor, Guitar Foundation of America Convention, Comstock Hall, Louisville, KY
- — Interlochen Classical Guitar Intensive Ensemble, David Steinhardt, conductor, Dendrinos Chapel, Interlochen, MI
- — Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival Orchestra, Jon Marshall, conductor, St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, MI
- — Interlochen Guitar Ensemble, Dendrinos Chapel, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
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