Instrumentation: Brass Band
Duration: 11’00 min.
Grade: 5
Price Digital Score: € 29,-
Price Complete Digital Set: € 99,-
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Program Notes:
‘Light in the Darkness’ was composed by Joop van Dijk as a set test piece for the B – Division of the European Brass Band Championships 2012, in The Doelen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The first band that played en premiered this work at the championships was Brass Band Wiptal (Italy) conducted by Martin Gruber.
For the main theme of this test piece, the composer used a hymn tune he wrote during a sleepless night in the spring of 2011. By looking out of the window of his study room while composing this hymn tune, the composer realised that the only light in that dark night was coming from his study. The title of the test piece ‘Light in the darkness’ refers to this moment.
