Chosen Destiny
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 4:55
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: BandT Publications, through Print Music Source
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00 | Score Only (print) - $32.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- C Piccolo
- Flute I-II
- Oboe
- Bassoon
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- E-flat Alto Clarinet
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
- Horn in F I-II
- Trombone I-II-III
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Percussion, including:
- *Bass Drum
- *Chimes
- *Crash Cymbals
- *Glockenspiel
- *Snare Drum
- *Suspended Cymbal
- *Triangle
- *Vibraphone
- *Wind Chimes
- *Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Chosen Destiny was commissioned by the Ashdown High School Band, Josh Jackson, Director, to honor Mark G. Pounds, for his outstanding 18 years as director of bands at Ashdown High School in Ashdown, Arkansas.
The composition begins with a rhythmic motive played by the timpani and later as a fanfare by the band. The overall form of the piece is ABA. To reflect Mr. Pounds’ religious and hard-working ethics, the composer chose for the main theme in the A section a quote from the hymn This Is My Father’s World. The Adagio section or the B section represents his passion for music, his students and his alma maters, Ashdown High School and Henderson State University. The A section returns followed by the Coda.
Mr. Mark G. Pounds, a former Navy veteran, a tuba player, now assistant principal at Ashdown schools, is devoted to his family, community and church, his Chosen Destiny.
First verse to “This Is My Father’s World”
This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears,
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my Father’s world, I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, and skies and seas,
His hand the wonders wrought.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Heart of Texas (San Antonio) Concert Band (R. Mark Rogers, conductor) - 12 April 2026
- 106th Army Band (Marianna, Ark.) (William Evans, conductor) – 6 June 2025 (ACB 2025 Annual Convention (Fort Smith, Ark.))
- Helotes (Tx.) Area Community Band (Charles Booker, conductor) – August 2024
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Holiday Prelude (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2013/2020)
- March On (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1818/2015/2020)
- St Louis Blues (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1914/2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- American Curtain Time (as arranger) (2020)
- American Dances (2006)
- American Jubilee (2011)
- Amparito Roca (as editor) (1925/1935/2022)
- A True Friend (2004)
- The Black Horse Troop (as editor) (1924/2020)
- Boston Mountain Overture (2002/2005)
- Brilliant Legacy: Suite For Symphonic Band (2009)
- Capriccio and Intermezzo (1999/2007)
- Carillon Celebration (2003)
- Celebrate the Music (2022)
- Centra-Fuge (2007)
- Chosen Destiny (2015)
- Civil War Saga: The Battle of Prairie Grove 1862 (2008)
- Crossed Sabres (1998)
- Eternal Waves (2011)
- Declaration 1776 (2003)
- Gazebo Portraits (2003/2013)
- Glorious Journey (2011)
- Guns Up! (1980)
- Highland Spirits for Double Wind Quintet (2011)
- Holiday Prelude (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2013/2020)
- Irving Berlin (as arranger) (2025)
- Joan of Arc (2019)
- La Fiesta de San Antonio (2007/2013)
- Like the Stars Forever and Ever... (2003)
- Look Homeward Citizen Soldier (2010)
- March On (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- The Melody Shop (as editor) (1910/2024)
- Overture for a New Time (2014)
- Radiant Blues (2008)
- River Valley Suite (2002)
- Roar of the Armor (1981/1995)
- Rough Rider: Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, The (2007)
- Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1818/2015/2020)
- Snacks for Flute, Bb Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano (2009)
- Solace (2006)
- St Louis Blues (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1914/2017/2020)
- Suite of African American Spirituals (as arranger) (2018)
- Switchback (2010)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Thundering Steel (1996)
- Times Remembered (2009)
- The Titan (2015)
- Trailblazers, The (2004)
- Valtzz! for Euphonium and Wind Band (2003)
- With Honor and Courage (2023/2024)
- The Yeoman of the Guard (as arranger) (1888/2024)
Resources
- Charles L. Booker Jr. website. Accessed 14 August 2024
- Perusal score