Beyond the Walls and the Water
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Subtitle: For New Orleans, Louisiana, Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 12:25
Difficulty: V+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stuart Folse
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone (doubles Soprano Saxophone)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Sousaphone
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cabasa
- Castanets, Mechanical
- Cowbell
- Crotales
- Police Whistle
- Rainstick, Large
- Ratchet
- Shaker, Metal
- Snare Drum (2)
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks (4)
- Thunder Sheet
- Tom-Tom (5)
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Players clapping, singing and whistling
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Beyond the Walls and the Water: For New Orleans, Louisiana Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina was written in honor of New Orleans, Louisiana’s survival ten years after the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. The work emphasizes two attributes that are intricately linked to the city: the rich culture of Mardi Gras music and time. The composer draws on his early years living in south Louisiana and recalls the rhythms, timbres and essence of Mardi Gras music past and present. Additionally, the timelessness of the city is reflected in the way that rhythm and time are manipulated throughout the piece.
Beyond the Walls and the Water is saturated with different formulations of the 3+3+2 rhythms that are basic to the sound of the city. Additionally, the composer works with multiple time streams and different types of time (straight, swing, pushed, relaxed) simultaneously.
The work is introduced by a percussion section replicating the sound of a barge breaking through the walls of the Industrial Canal on August 29, 2005. What follows are two “water motives” that come back to interrupt the “Mardi Gras” sections later in the work. The first represents gushing water, the second depicts relentlessly seeping water.
New Orleans continues to be a vibrant outlet of art and culture. Beyond the Walls and the Water: For New Orleans, Louisiana Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina pays tribute to the Crescent City and the resilience and persistence of its people, culture, history, timelessness and, attitude. In spite of everything, it endures.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Wisconsin - Lacrosse Wind Ensemble (J. Thomas Seddon IV, conductor) – 23 February 2018 (CBDNA 2018 North Central Conference, Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Wind Ensemble (Tom Seddon, conductor) – 19 November 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Beyond the Walls and the Water (2015)
- Thrace
- Ubi Caritas (2022)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Stuart Folse, personal correspondence, January 2018
- Stuart Folse website Accessed 5 January 2018