Horizons

Johanna Beyer

General Info

Year: April 1942
Duration: c. 15:40
Publisher: Smith Publications (Copied and edited by Ron Coulter)

Movements

1. Liberty
2. Utopia
3. Destruction
4. Reality

Instrumentation

Instrumentation is unspecified, as in Beyer's "PERCUSSION".
14 percussionists

Program Notes

The first known complete performance of Horizons was performed by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Percussion Group (SIUCPG), conducted by Ron Coulter, at the 5th Annual Outside the Box New Music Festival (Carbondale, Illinois) on 3 April 2011. That program included world premiers of Beyer’s PERCUSSION, Strive, Horizons, and Daniel Kessner’s A Knocktet. As well as rare performances of Colin McPhee’s Kachapi Mas, Lou Harrison’s Oriental, Franziska Boas’ Changing Tensions, and Jose Ardevol’s Preludio a 11.

Commercial Discography

ORIGINS: forgotten percussion works, vol. 1 https://percussionartensemble.bandcamp.com/album/origins-forgotten-percussion-works-vol-1

Works for Percussion by this Composer

IV - (IV is the fourth movement of the composition, PERCUSSION)
Horizons - for 14 percussionists
March - Percussion Sextet
PERCUSSION - Percussion Nonet
Percussion Suite - Percussion Quintet
Percussion, op.14 - Percussion Sextet
Strive - Percussion Octet
Three Movements for Percussion - Percussion Ensemble
Waltz for Percussion - Percussion Ensemble

Additional Resources

Coulter, Ron. "Forgotten Percussion Works: Johanna Magdalena Beyer" Percussive Notes Online Research Edition, Vol. 1, pgs. 5-23, December 2016.