Solidary Anthem for Orchestra

Last year, I was asked to compose a piece for my university's symphony orchestra, and this the piece that I finished for that project. We are in the process of rehearsing it right now, and I'm happy to say that it is going very well, though all these little technical considerations that I've encountered during the process have been frustrating at times. Nevertheless, Here is my piece, Solidary Anthem. The score is pretty much constantly undergoing revision, and the audio is a tiny bit outdated (in particular you may notice the jingly sounds near the end are not present), however, the files which I am uploading are for the most part faithful representations of the piece.Thanks for checking it out!Solidary Anthem for Orchestra

Solidary Anthem for Orchestra

The Harmony is very good in most of the piece, excellent in some parts. I found your initial time signatures a bit confusing but might be because is the first time I see it....

Your overall structure and development is good to me, all modulations and changes sounded very nice, your orchestrations has correct dialogs between instruments except in Brass which all enterings and exits are practically in the whole section, you can build dialogs in Brass too.

The Unison segment in the entire orchestra seemed a little too large for me.

The Climaxes are very nice :thumbsup: , and the end in softness BUT the final major chord is kinda weak for what you just presented, it deserves a better ending. (and I didn't understand what you wrote in the mallets at the end... :(

Keep it on, this is surely good.

Thanks for responding! The time signatures in the beginning were basically arbitrarily created by the conductor here. I had originally written the first 4 measures with no time signature at all, but to make actual performance work better we added the 6/4 time, which makes sense if you group every six notes in the clarinet line into a sextuplet which makes 1 beat.

What the percussion and harp are doing at the end is basically taking those pitches which I put in boxes and improvising on them for the duration of the measure. It makes a sound kind of like wind chimes or mark tree but just on definite pitches.

Thanks again for your comments. I really appreciate it!