POEM FOR A FALLEN HERO - Stanley Friedman (1951) for trumpet alone

POEM FOR A FALLEN HERO - Stanley Friedman (1951)
for trumpet alone
Genre contemporary
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🎧 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍 🎧
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for Trumpet Unaccompanied
pour trompette seule
für Trompete allein
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About Stanley Friedman: www.stanleyfriedman.com
In 1997, Stanley Friedman composed and published Poem for a Fallen Hero. This short composition for unaccompanied trumpet juxtaposes fanfare rhythms and jagged melodic lines against a dynamic arc that begins and ends softly. While short, Poem for a Fallen Hero is a complex composition with a rich history drawing upon powerful events, individuals, and other art as inspiration.
Even though it bears the composition date of 1997, Poem for a Fallen Hero was originally conceived of and composed several years earlier, and in a much different form at the request of Radio New Zealand, as Dr. Stanley Friedman revealed during an interview on October 3, 2013. Dr. Friedman, then the principal trumpet of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, was approached by Radio New Zealand to record some fanfares the radio network intended to intersperse between readings of World War I poetry for a Remembrance Day tribute. On Remembrance Day, the Commonwealth of Nations honors their fallen soldiers from every war beginning with World War I. The Commonwealth of Nations is an organization of over fifty member-states spanning across the world and came into existence in response to “a softening of British imperial policy.”
Dr. Friedman offered to compose some bugle-inspired calls that would reflect the emotional quality of the poetry since Radio New Zealand was unclear as to precisely what the station wanted him to record. The nature of the poems, Dr. Friedman recalled, was not a “...glory marching off to war kind of thing; [these are about] sadness, and tragedy, and the destruction of war.” Dr. Friedman comments, “The original poems were essentially about heroes. My friend Charlie was a hero to me and to his family.”

[@jackgallagher9949]

Bravo, Fabrizio and Mr. Friedman!

[@FabrizioIacoboni]

Thank you so much, Maestro!!! 😘

[@ericofonseca]

Fantastic piece, awesome player!!!

[@FabrizioIacoboni]

Thank you so much, man! Ciao Erico