American Highlands
composer: Nancy Galbraith (2025)
genre: wind orchestra
length: 1 movement, 8:40 minutes
orchestration: pic, 2 fl, 2 ob, 3 cl, b-cl, 2 bn;
sop-sax, alt-sax, ten-sax, bar-sax;
4 tpt, 4 hn, 2 tbn, b-tbn, euph, tba;
piano, 4 perc
publisher: Subito Music Publishing (ASCAP)
60 Depot Street, Verona, NJ 07044
mail@subitomusic.com • 973-857-3440
audio/video:

world premiere: 23 March 2025
Carnegie Mellon Wind EnsembleStephen Story, conductor
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) • Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA
program notes:

American Highlands is inspired by the early American tradition of The Sacred Harp ("shape-note") choral singing, thus featuring areas of wide tonal harmonies with open fifths, and an overall spirit of exuberance and joyous innocence. —Martha Tablewight

source: nancygalbraith.com