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Adrenaline City
Contents
General Info
Year: 2007
Duration: c. 8:15
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Studio Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $140.25 | Score Only (print) - $31.25
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
Double Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (or Bass Guitar)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(Percussion instrumentation undifferentiated in score)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Adrenaline City is a concert overture inspired by both the stress and vibrancy of 21st century city life. Composed in 2006, it was premiered by the West Point Band on March 3, 2006, at West Point, New York.
- Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music
A concert overture, inspired by both the stress and vibrancy of twenty-first century life. The harsh and dissonant opening passage is contrasted by a mellow second subject theme in the saxophones. The percussion come to the fore in the middle section, and, at the close of the work then harmonic tension reaches an exhilarating breaking point before resolving on the tonal centre of A.
- Program Note by publisher
I am deeply indebted to Steve Grimo of the U.S. Air Force Academy Band for getting this project together. The bands involved in the commissioning of Adrenaline City include:
The USAF Academy Band, Lt Col Steven Grimo, Commander The US Military Academy Band, LTC Timothy J. Holtan, Commander USAF Band of Flight, Lt Col Alan Sierichs, Commander USAF Band of Liberty, Lt Col Larry Lang, Commander USAF Heritage of America Band, Maj Douglas Monroe, Commander USAF Band of the Golden West, Capt Michael Mench, Commander USAF Band of Mid America, Capt Donald Schofield, Commander
- Program Note by composer
Awards
- Adrenaline City has been recommended as interesting, serious and distinctive music by members of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).
Commercial Discography
Media
State Ratings
- Tennessee: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C.) (Bryan P. Sherlock, conductor) – 13 January 2019
- Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti) Symphonic Band - 2010
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Adrenaline City (2006)
- African Samba (2006)
- Ascent (1996/2004)
- Awayday (1996)
- Bells Across the Atlantic (2013)
- Bermuda Triangle (1994)
- Bohemian Revelry (2013)
- Bridgewater Breeze (1996)
- Candlelight Procession (2001)
- Concerto for Euphonium (1997)
- Dances from Crete (2003)
- Downtown Diversions (2000)
- Eine Kleine Walzermusik (2009)
- Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (2003)
- Elements (1998)
- Farewell (2008)
- French Dances Revisited (2004)
- Little Salsa Music, A
- Little Tango Music, A (2007)
- Metropolis (1992)
- Midnight in Buenos Aires (2007)
- Parade of the Wooden Warriors (1999)
- Pikes Peak (2017)
- Repercussions (2011)
- Scenes from an English Landscape
- Scenes from Bruegel (1994)
- Suite for Winds (1993)
- Summer Dances (2012)
- Symphony No. 1 in C (2000)
- Three Way Suite
- Towards Nirvana (2002)
- Tranquility (2009)
- Yiddish Dances (1997)
Resources
- Adrenaline City, WASBE Accessed 25 June 2016
- Gorb, A. (2006). Adrenaline City [score]. Studio Music: London
