Fanfare for Hope (2018)

General Information

Commissioner: Boston University Tanglewood Institute, in honor of Gov. Deval Patrick’s 2018 visit to Tanglewood
Written: July 2018
Duration: ca. 3’
Instrumentation: 2 tpt + hn + tbn + [btbn or tba]

Performance History

July 29, 2018: Triton Brass at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA (World Premiere)
November 21, 2019: Lux Brass at Cross Campus, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 1, 2021: University of Kentucky Faculty Brass Quintet, United Methodist Church, Lexington, KY
March 23, 2023: on Javier Salinas’s Trumpet Doctoral Chamber Recital, Butler School of Music, Austin, TX

Studio Recordings

Featured on “New Music for Brass Quintet”, University of Kentucky Faculty Brass Quintet, released May 2021.

Awards

University of Kentucky Faculty Brass Quintet Call for Scores (2020)

Press

Sunday, BUTI’s young artists wind ensemble conducted by H. Robert Reynolds, with lots of brass and percussion, the five performers of the Triton Brass and a very special guest played the music of Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland and “Fanfare for Hope,” composed especially for the guest and the concert. Respass thanked “Fanfare” composer Benjamin Beckman, a 2018 Young Artists composition student, for his piece… Before the last piece of music, Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” Beckman’s “Fanfare for Hope” was performed by the Triton Brass as a tribute to the guest and “the entire BUTI family.”… Not to be coy, many in Sunday’s audience came to the concert to see and hear the special guest, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who donated his time to be the narrator of “Lincoln Portrait.”… The afternoon’s BUTI concert ended with a final standing ovation — for the program itself, for the young artists, the brass quintet, the feeling for “Fanfare,” conductor Reynolds and Patrick. This is the sort of event that goes on under BUTI — music, excitement, emotion, fine quality. - The Berkshire Edge