Green Hope After Black Rain – Steve Heitzeg

If you are interested in a parts set for a performance, please contact us. Listen to Steve Heitzeg, Jeff Stirling, and Annelise Riles discuss the Nagasaki premiere on Everyday Ambassador. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2 (pic)-2-2-3/4-2-3-1/timp, 3 per/harp/str Duration: Approx. 15 minutes Date Written: 2021 Commissioned by: Commissioned by The Saint Paul Civic Symphony, Jeffrey Stirling, Music Director, in celebration of the orchestra’s 75th season Premiered by: The Saint Paul Civic Symphony Jeffrey Stirling, Music Director & conductor Landmark Center Saint Paul, MN May 8, 2022 Additional Information: NOTES: I. Pilgrimage to Manzanar (a set of variations against injustice) Marked “Forced Removal,” the piece opens with an ominous processionfor full orchestra heralded by the sound of stones from Manzanar and a Taiko drum. Building in intensity, we reach the brutal “At the Entrance to the Manzanar Internment Camp.” What follows is the more ethereal and introspective