COURAGE & COMPASSION
by Jim Bonney - for concert band [7 '12"/ Grade 3+]
score and musical examples coming soon!
"My aim is to put down on paper what I think and what I feel in the best and simplest way." - Ernest Hemingway
There is a very fine line you tread when attempting to write something simple yet eloquent. Ernest Hemingway was a master at this, and with this piece, I tried to apply Hemingway's aesthetic to my work. There are also elements of French Impressionism, orchestral Americana, and compositional techniques used by Renaissance composers. This was a very difficult process, and Courage & Compassion took longer to write than any other piece I've attempted. I'm no longer sure whether it is an expression of what I had originally intended, or an expression of what I was thinking and feeling in the process of actually writing it.
Courage & Compassion is dedicated to my grandmother, Margaret Kemper Bonney, who never heard more than my finished piano sketch before she passed.
World Premiere: New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL, James Warrick, director
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