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From Time to Time

Kjos String OrchestraGrade 2

Full Conductor ScoreJSO292F

$6.00

Lennie Niehaus

From Time to Time

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The ComposerLennie Niehaus was born to a musical family in St. Louis in 1929. As a teenager,

Mr. Niehaus started playing the alto saxophone and quickly fell in love with jazz music. By the time he was in his mid twenties, he was performing professionally as a saxophonist with the popular and influential Stan Kenton Orchestra, a position he held from 1954 to 1959. He has also recorded albums as a leader with such jazz greats as Mel Lewis and Shelly Manne.

Mr. Niehaus left the world of jazz performance to concentrate on writing music in 1959. For over forty years, he has won acclaim as a composer of both concert music and music for the screen. A prolific composer of film scores, Mr. Niehaus has had a long and fruitful collaboration with actor/director Clint Eastwood: his music appears in over 20 Eastwood movies, including Bird, The Bridges of Madison County, Space Cowboys, and Unforgiven. In 1994, he won the Emmy Award for “Outstanding

Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special” for his score to the Showtime film Lush Life. He has also received numerous honorable mentions at the BMI Industry Awards. Mr. Niehaus continues to actively score music for film and television.

In addition to his career in film music, Mr. Niehaus has over one hundred published compositions to his credit, including works for such diverse ensembles as symphony orchestra, concert band, string orchestra, chamber ensembles, and jazz band. He is an active member in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC), and the Los Angeles Jazz Society.

The CompositionFrom Time to Time begins with a rousing, heroic theme played by the whole ensemble. Students should employ a

marcato style until m. 30, where a gentler mood takes over. The calm doesn’t last for long, however – in m. 46, we’re back to the main theme. This first section is written in a quasi-Baroque style, but m. 55 ushers in a dramatic shift to a more modern, “jazzy” harmonic language. It also marks a shift to 34 time, giving inspiration to the title of the piece, From Time to Time. Students should pay special attention to graceful bowing, lyrical phrasing, and a warm vibrato in this section. In the recapitulation, the orchestra is back to the original “time” ( 44 , quasi-Baroque). Students will need to watch the director closely in the last two measures of the piece: this parting unison needs to be rhythmically clean for a dramatic effect.

I hope your students enjoy the piece!

Instrumentation List (Set C)8 – 1st Violin 8 – 2nd Violin 5 – 3rd Violin (Viola T.C.) 5 – Viola 5 – Cello 5 – String Bass 1 – Rehearsal Piano 1 – Full Conductor Score Additional scores and parts are available. SAMPLE

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From Time to TimeFull Conductor ScoreApprox. time – 3:50 Lennie Niehaus

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