Kjos String OrchestraGrade 3

Full Conductor Score SO262F

$6.00

Shirl Jae Atwell

Neil A. Kjos Music Company • Publisher

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The ComposerShirl Jae Atwell earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Kansas State

Teachers College and a Master of Music Theory/Composition degree at the University ofLouisville. She also completed four years of post-graduate work in composition at theUniversity of South Carolina.

In 1984, Ms. Atwell won the Clifford Shaw Memorial Award for Kentucky Composers;was commissioned to write Fear Not, Little Flock for the 175th anniversary of the LittleFlock Baptist Church; and saw the New York City debut of her first opera, Sagegrass. In1991, another of her operas, Esta Hargis, was premièred at Emporia State University inKansas, followed shortly by the 1992 debut of Handelian, a work for string orchestrapremièred by the Jefferson County All-County Middle School Orchestra. The SouthernBaptist Seminary Orchestra in Louisville premièred her Movements Four South, an

orchestral suite, in 1993. That year also saw the placement of six Shirl Jae Atwell scores in the permanent collectionof the Paris Bibliothèque Internationale de Musique Contemporaine at the invitation of the Contemporary MusicInternational Information Service.

Ms. Atwell was named the 1996 winner of the National School Orchestra Association composition contest withher string orchestra piece Modus á Four. She is also the 1997 winner of the Texas Orchestra Directors Associationcontest with a string orchestra piece entitled Drifen.

Lucy, the ballet, with music by Ms. Atwell and choreography by Alun Jones, was premièred by the LouisvilleBallet in January 1999. Lucy was inspired by the discovery of a 3.2 million year old skeleton, and was the subject ofa Kentucky Education Television documentary that was aired on November 10, 1999.

In June 2000, the televised production of Lucy was awarded the Arts & Culture Emmy by the Ohio ValleyChapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; in July, a Certificate of Merit was awarded to Lucyby Unda-USA, the National Catholic Association for Communicators; and in January 2001, Lucy was awarded 2ndplace by the National Education Television Association for program performance. In 2002, the GreensboroSymphony Orchestra of North Carolina recorded the music to the ballet Lucy, which is now available on AlbanyRecords. The compact disc also includes the orchestral suite Movements Four South, and three string orchestra works,Pulsar, Meander, and Drifen.

In 2005 and 2006, Ms. Atwell was commissioned to write works for the McEachern High School StringOrchestra of Powder Springs, Georgia, and the Oceanfront String Orchestra of Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 2007, shewas commissioned to write a string quartet and a full orchestra piece for the 2007 Kentucky All-State Orchestra. Sheis currently working on her second ballet suite entitled Ela.

An active composer with many commissions and publications to her credit, Ms. Atwell retired from full-timestring teaching with the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2007. She is looking forward tospending more time composing, conducting, arranging, and presenting. Ms. Atwell maintains active memberships inASCAP, Music Educators National Conference, ASTA with NSOA, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, and theKentucky Music Educators Association.

The CompositionImagine yourself in a mist of sound where melodies and harmonies tempt you into believing that B minor is the

key, but in actuality it is only the tonal center around which the music moves. There are no definite cadences or tonalclarity, only a B pedal point that moves this work from one section to the next. Mist is vague and undefined, creatingimpressions that appear and then fade into something different. It is an illusion found only in mist.

Instrumentation List (Set C)8 – 1st Violin 5 – Cello8 – 2nd Violin 5 – String Bass5 – Viola 1 – Full Conductor Score

Additional scores and parts are available.

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MistFull Conductor ScoreApprox. time – 2:55 Shirl Jae Atwell

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