Large Ensemble
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Repertoire for large ensemble that is not downloadable can be purchased by clicking the "inquiry" button next to the composition title. Our representative will contact you, shortly.
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View and shop for rentable and downloadable music for large ensembles here. The downloadable repertoiree comes with an accompanying covenants that permits unlimited photocopying of performance materials for your personal and professional use; refer colleagues to this site to download their own materials.
Repertoire is listed in alphabetical order by title, with performing forces, year of composition, duration, and accompanied with a short history or background. |
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[bad things happen to] Tiny Toy Windups (for purchase)
[instrumentation: 1.2.1.1-2.1.0.0-perc (1)-strings; 2015] 7 minutes Commissioned by conductor Jay Fishman for the Minnesota Sinfonia with support from the McKnight Foundation.
Randall collects tiny plastic windup toys. This one-movement work belongs to a number of compositions in Mr. Davidson's catalogue that portray power differentials between weak and strong, large and small, loud and soft forces. The strings begin the work without direction from the podium. As the music gains momentum, the conductor and percussionist punctuate the harmony of the group by pitting sections of the orchestra against each other until, finally, the two leave the stage arm-in-arm triumphant in controlling everyone. A brief coda follows (after the audience response): the strings rise from the silence, persistent and once again without a conductor.
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Black & Blues (for rent)
[1.2.1.2-2.0.0.0-perc.pn-strings: 6 6 4 4 2; 1984] 24 minutes. Commissioned by Jeanyne and John Slettom for their daughters, Malena and Linnea; premiered by Oliver Knussen and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; performed more than 25 times by the SPCO. The work was inspired by the writings of naturalist, Loren Eiseley (All the Strange Hours, The Immense Journey and The Night Country). The titles of the three movements are taken from chapter titles: "Crane Dancing," "Willy" and "Judgment of the Birds." Black & Blues is a bruising, a mourning, and an affirmation. 
"I sometimes think that [people] and their thoughts are like jack-o-lanterns upheld on poles at Halloween. they float and grin awhile before some dark unanswering window, and then, like hollow pumpkins, they are taken down, dismantled, and cast out. Poor old heads, there was only a small light in them and a rotund expansiveness that soon withered. Our own case is no better."
Loren Eiseley, All the Strange Hours |
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Mexico-Bolivar Tango (for purchase)
[1.1.1.1-1.0.0.0-strings; 1987] 6 minutes Commissioned by conductor Cary John Franklin and the Singing Wilderness Festival in Ely, Minnesota and inspired by two towns in Central Missouri. Chamber versions available: string trio (violin, viola, cello) and piano trio (violin, cello, piano). |
arr. Schubert-Davidson: Fantasy in f minor, Opus 103 (for rent)
[1.2.1.2-2.0.0.0-perc.pn-vc,cb; 1993] 20 minutes Commissioned by Christopher Hogwood and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. |
The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra (for rent)
[2(picc).2(EH).2.2-4.3.3.1-3 perc.hp-strings] 1988; 25 minutes.
Commissioned by Garrison Keillor; premiered by the Seattle Symphony; recorded on Virgin Classics by the Minnesota Orchestra; broadcast on the Disney Channel. Narration written by Garrison Keillor.
Chamber orchestra version available.
[2(picc).2(EH).2.2-4.3.3.1-3 perc.hp-strings] 1988; 25 minutes.
Commissioned by Garrison Keillor; premiered by the Seattle Symphony; recorded on Virgin Classics by the Minnesota Orchestra; broadcast on the Disney Channel. Narration written by Garrison Keillor.
Chamber orchestra version available.
Orchestra + Chorus music of Randall Davidson.
A History of Evil: Bible Families (orchestra parts for rent, vocal score licensed download)
The Fourth Wise Man (orchestra parts for rent, vocal score licensed download)
[4 male soloists, mezzo solo, treble trio, large and small SATB chorus;
chamber orchestra: ob.tpt-perc.hp.org-strings: 3 2 1 1 1] 1995; 62 minutes.
Moving, at a Distance (for purchase, vocal score licensed download)
The Fourth Wise Man (orchestra parts for rent, vocal score licensed download)
[4 male soloists, mezzo solo, treble trio, large and small SATB chorus;
chamber orchestra: ob.tpt-perc.hp.org-strings: 3 2 1 1 1] 1995; 62 minutes.
- Composed in 1995. Adapted by George Sand from Henry Van Dyke and Michel Tournier's stories about the fourth wiseman who arrives late to the Nativity and the Last Supper.
- Click here to receive more detailed information about the music, the story, theatrical production, and how to request perusal materials.
Moving, at a Distance (for purchase, vocal score licensed download)
- [SATB chorus; 2.2.2.2-4.0.3.1-hp.pn.strings] 1988; 6 minutes.
- This vocalise for chorus and orchestra was commissioned by Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota (now VocalEssence) for Dominick Argento's 60th Birthday.