Ship of State
for Piano and Chamber Ensemble Full Score
Publisher: Lauren Keiser Music Publishing
Category: Band/Orchestra/Ensemble
Series: LKM Music
Format: Softcover

This one-movement chamber concerto by Stephen Hartke for piano and twenty players uses four sections, each bearing headings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Building of the Ship. The poem is a culmination on the metaphorical comparison of the perils and tribulations of government to that of a ship at sea in a storm. It was commissioned by Xak Bjerken, the Oberlin Sinfonietta, the University of Southern California Thornton Edge Ensemble, Ensemble X, June in Buffalo, and the Arizona State University Chamber Orchestra. Section titles: 1. Hanging breathless (Foundering), 2. In spite of false lights on the shore (Edgy, potentially explosive), 3. The anchors of thy hope (Gently - a rueful lullaby), 4. What Workmen wrought (Lively, resurgent)

Inventory # : 00286688
UPC: 888680898069
ISBN: 1540040674
Width: 8.5"
Length: 14"
Height: 0.302"
Product Weight: 1.1 lbs.
Number of Pages: 128