Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 2:10
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute (div.)
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone (div.)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F (div.)
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Castanets
- Glockenspiel
- Guiro
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
- Woodblock
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The squirrels ate all the birdseed. We greased the feeder’s pole so they couldn’t climb it. It rained. Hard. Out my window, I watched one lonely squirrel with his tail spread over its head scrounging under the bird feeder for dropped seeds. Occasionally, it would make a half-hearted attempt at climbing the pole, only to slowly slide back down. The squirrel cast baleful looks at me periodically. I felt sorry for it. So I wrote this piece.
- Program Note by composer.
The music is marked "Mournful, yearning, as if for food just out of reach."
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Agua Nocturna (2010)
- And Can It Be (2009)
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Burning Music (2011)
- Chamber Concerto No. 1 (2012)
- Concertino Caboclo (2012)
- Dancefares (2016)
- Deep Calls to Deep (2016)
- The Exultant Heart (2016)
- Ford's Machine (2011)
- The Grand Processional of Our Reptilian Overlords (2019)
- He Who Would Valiant Be (2010)
- Heavy Weather (2012)
- I Know Moonrise (2019)
- If I Am to Leave... See: Symphony No. 1
- In Light, Accessible... (2015)
- The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (2004)
- Last Dances of Prospero (2009)
- Light Beyond Shadow (as arranger) (2020/2022)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby for Leaving (2021)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Lux Veritas,
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- The Mountain Whippoorwill (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Nuclear Family (2014)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Red Rover (2019)
- Rumpelstilzchen (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Resources
- Jess Langston Turner website – Accessed 3 September 2020
- Perusal score