Asylum
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General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 6:05
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Andrew David Perkins
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $120.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Traverse City State Hospital in Traverse City, Michigan, (previously known as the Northern Michigan Asylum) is the last Kirkbride Building in the state. Completed in 1885, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1985. Dr. James Decker Munson was a firm believer in the "beauty is therapy" philosophy. Patients were treated through kindness, comfort, pleasure, and beautiful flowers provided year-round by the asylum's own greenhouses and the variety of trees Munson planted on the grounds. Restraints, such as the straitjacket, were forbidden. Also, as part of the "work is therapy" philosophy, the asylum provided opportunities for patients to gain a sense of purpose through farming, furniture construction, fruit canning, and other trades that kept the institution fully self-sufficient.
Changes in the law and mental health care philosophies brought on the decline of the institution, and it was closed in 1989. Over the next decade, the community struggled with plans for reuse of the hospital grounds, until 2000, when the Grand Traverse Commons Redevelopment Corporation secured an agreement to renovate the historic buildings. Their efforts have led to the gradual but successful preservation and re-use of the former Building 50 as part of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, a residential and commercial development. The beautiful complex now houses condominiums, stores and shops, bakeries, art galleries and gourmet restaurants.
Asylum is a tone poem that that attempts to reflect the complex beauty, pain, and healing of both the people who lived and worked here, as well as the incredible architectural achievement of the Kirkbride building itself.
- Program Note from publisher
Awards
- The American Prize in Composition—Band/Wind Ensemble (professional division), 2018-19, second place
- NBA Revelli Award, 2018, finalist
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Symphony Band (David Thornton, conductor) – 24 October 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Noble Gases (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Alcatraz (2014)
- Asylum (2017)
- Clutch. (2019)
- Conspiracy Theories (2016)
- Gradients (2017)
- Horror Vacui (2020)
- Noble Gases (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- On Shoulders of Giants (2021)
- Prayers in Villefranche (2016)
- The Raptor Rides the Whale (2018)
- Skeletonic (2022)
- Société Blue (2022)
- Southeast by Northwest (2016)
- Trip the Light Fantastic (2015)
- Tuebor (2020)
- Until the Night Collapses (2018)
- Vox Nostra (2022)
- Wigs & Gilt (2023)
Resources
- Andrew David Perkins website Accessed 24 October 2017
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 72/9 (April 2018), p. 32.