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Bright Lights... City Nights
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General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 9:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: HAFABRA Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €148.00 | Score Only (print) - €30.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
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-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This Broadway-style work paints a glamorous picture of American life and popular music of the 1920s. Based on a night “out on the town,” the music is boisterous, powerful, and moves through a series of key changes that add energy and vitality to the music. A laid-back middle section features a sultry alto sax solo before the music becomes more playful in nature. The entire ensemble returns for the final curtain call.
- Program Note from publisher
As to programme note I'm not really very good at this. The following is as much a general instruction to the ensemble as a programme note.
The music reflects a glamorized notion of American society in the nineteen twenties, particularly how a night out may have been. As with a lot of popular music of that period it should be played with swagger and panache.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Gold Campus Band (Shaun Evans, conductor) – 5 March 2020
- Oregon (Portland) Symphonic Band (Michael Burch-Pesses, conductor)- 22 April 2018
- Band of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment (Vancouver, B.C.) – 11 November 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Bright Lights ... City Nights (2013)
- Carnaby Street
- Cartoon (1991)
- Circus Ring (1995)
- Journey and Celebration
- Silver Screen (2003)
- Skyrider
- Sunrise (1999)