"Festival of Praise" Classical Guitar, Violin, Oboe, Bassoon

I wrote “Festival of Praise” for the 50^th anniversary of Philadelphia Romanian Church of God in Chicago, where I’ve been serving in the Music Department since 1990 and as Music Director since 2004.

The piece is written for Classical Guitar, Violin, Oboe, and Bassoon. Composed in a Baroque style, the work features some counterpoint content as well as some responsory sections, with the Guitar, Violin, and Oboe taking leading roles at different times throughout the piece.

I am suggesting a tempo of about 85BPM, but our ensemble usually ends up playing closer to 95-100BPM.

The included mp3 is a straightforward mp3 reduction of the score, written in MuseScore, so the tempo changes are not reflected in the recording. Use the mp3 recordings (score and individual parts) only as a guide.

I am also including our first public performance of this piece, on October 20, 2023, at the first Jubilee Service at the church. It is not a perfect performance, but I feel it might give you a more realistic feel of how the piece should sound.

Included with your purchase:

• Full Score

• Classical Guitar Part

• Classical Guitar TAB

• Violin Part

• Oboe Part

• Bassoon Part

• Full Ensemble mp3

• Classical Guitar mp3

• Violin mp3

• Oboe mp3

• Bassoon mp3

 The mp3 files have been digitally extracted from the MuseScore file – they are not performed on actual instruments, but should be helpful in learning the individual parts and the combined parts.

Everything comes in a zip file which can be decompressed to access each individual file.