Daugherty-Asclepius (SP)-B/C/4T/P/4HN/4TP/4TN/TU

Asclepius, named after the Greek God of medicine, uses the pulse of a beating heart as a musical metaphor. This fanfare celebrates the men and women who dedicate their lives to the noble cause of medical research and healing. Scored for 4 horns, 4 trumpets, tuba, timpani and 2 percussion.


Number of Players: 15
Difficulty: Grade 4+
Instrumentation:

Player I: 4 F horns

Player I: 4 C Trumpets

Player I: 3 Trombones

Player I: Tuba

Player I: Timpani

Player I: Chimes, Sus. Cym, Crash Cym.

Player I: Glockenspiel, Metal

Michael Daugherty is one of the most performed and commissioned American composers of his generation. Daugherty came to international attention when his Metropolis Symphony (1988-93), a tribute to the Superman comics, was performed in 1995 at Carnegie Hall by conductor David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and subsequently recorded for Argo/Decca. Other large orchestral works include UFO (1999), a percussion concerto commissioned and premiered by Evelyn Glennie and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and Fire and Blood (2003), a violin concerto commissioned and premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by conductor Neeme Järvi. The Detroit Symphony also commissioned and premiered Daugherty's second symphony, MotorCity Triptych (2000). His third symphony, Philadelphia Stories (2001), was commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by David Zinman.