California
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 10:55
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maslanka Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $259.00; (digital) - $179.00 | Score Only (print) - $69.00; (digital) - $49.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Anvil
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Orchestra Chimes
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Tenor Drum
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
- Horn III & IV, m.91-92: Horn III & IV in unison with Horn I & II.
Program Notes
Dedicated to California Music Educators that have weathered the storm, with spirits set on new beginnings and the strongest times to come as the California All-State Music Education Conference moves to San Jose, CA in 2016.
“Music is wonderful. It lets us tell ourselves things we can’t speak out in words. It opens the dream space and lets us dream together. It lets us imagine the world as it really is, a place of vitality, power and possibility.
We live in fear of destruction, from climate change, nuclear bombs, increasing population, vanishing resources, continuous war. When the troubles are listed like this it is hard to know what we think we are doing with our seemingly simple and innocent music making.
California has always been a place of big dreams. The music of California celebrates the California dream space. There is tremendous beauty here — the forests, deserts, mountains and valleys, the ocean — and also the strength within the people and in the earth to meet the times that are upon us. Music lets us dream, and in that dream is the possibility of a new world, one in which humans live in harmony, within themselves, with all other people, with all other species, with the planet. Is this dream impossible? Are circumstances too complex? Will human nature never change? My answer to these questions is no. The dream starts somewhere. Let our music making be one such place.”
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio flash drive: University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Symphonic Band (Randall Coleman, conductor) – 2020
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Man., Can.) Wind Ensemble (Jacquie Dawson, conductor) - 10 February 2023
- University of Portland (Ore.) Wind Symphony (Patrick Murphy, conductor) - 19 November 2022
- San Jose (Calif.) State University Wind Ensemble (David Vickerman, conductor) – 18 March 2022 (CBDNA 2022 Western/Northwestern Conference, Tacoma, Wash.)
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette Wind Ensemble (William Hochkeppel, conductor) - 9 March 2022
- McClellan College (Waco, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Jon Conrad, conductor) - 19 November 2020
- State University of New York, Fredonia, All College Band (Carrie Pawelski, conductor) – 4 March 2020
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Symphonic Band (Randall Coleman, conductor) – 20 February 2020 (CBDNA 2020 Southern Division Conference, Natchitoches, La.)
- Wind Symphony of Clovis (Calif.) (Christine Keenan, conductor) - 20 February 2020 (2020 CASMEC Conference, Fresno)
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Symphonic Band (Randall O. Coleman, conductor) – 1 February 2019
- Amador Valley High School (Pleasanton, Calif.) Wind Ensemble I (Jonathan Grantham, conductor) - 20 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
- California State University, Fullerton, Symphonic Winds (Dustin Barr, conductor) – 8 December 2019
- Pacific Lutheran University (Parkland, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Edwin Powell, conductor) – 13 October 2019
- Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, Calif.) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Andy Collinsworth, conductor) – 10 May 2019
- Colorado State University Symphonic Band (T. André Feagin, conductor)- 7 May 2019
- Atlanta (Ga.) Youth Wind Symphony (Scott A. Stewart, conductor) - 19 May 2018
- San Jose (Calif.) State University Wind Ensemble (David Vickerman, conductor) - 10 May 2018
- CBDNA WNW Intercollegiate Band (Rohnert Park, Calif.) (Larry Gookin, conductor) – 24 March 2018 (CBDNA 2018 Western/Northwestern Conference, Rohnert Park, Calif.)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Symphonic Band (Mark Norman, conductor) – 16 November 2017
- Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.) Symphonic Band (Matthew Arau, conductor) – 11 November 2017
- California Band Directors Association All-State High School Wind Symphony (Mallory Thompson, conductor) - 13 February 2016 (2016 CASMEC Conference, San Jose) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alex and the Phantom Band (2002/2015)
- Angel of Mercy (2015)
- California (2016)
- A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (1999)
- Concerto for Marimba and Band (1990)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2015)
- Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (1979)
- Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- Concerto No 2 for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (2002)
- Concerto No 3 for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2016)
- Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Crown of Thorns (1991)
- Desert Roads (2005)
- Fanfare-Variations on the Chorale Melody "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall). See: Recitation Book
- First Light (2016)
- Four Pieces for Band (1980)
- Give Us This Day (2005)
- Golden Light (1990)
- Heart Songs (2001)
- Hell's Gate (1997)
- Hohner (1999)
- Hosannas (2015)
- Husa (2016)
- Hymn for World Peace (2014)
- Illumination (2013)
- In Memoriam (1990)
- Laudamus Te (1995)
- Letter to Martin (2015)
- Liberation (2012)
- Little Concerto (1990)
- Mass (1995/2005)
- Montana Music: Chorale Variations (1993)
- Morning Star (1997)
- Mother Earth (2008)
- Mountain Roads (1997)
- On This Bright Morning (2013)
- Peace (2012)
- Prelude on a Gregorian Tune (1981)
- Procession of the Academics (2008)
- Quintet for Winds Number 2
- Recitation Book (2006)
- Remember Me (2013)
- Requiem (2013)
- Rollo Takes a Walk (1980)
- Saint Francis (2015)
- Sea Dreams (1998)
- The Seeker (2016)
- Song at the End of Time
- Songs for the Coming Day (2012)
- Song Book (2001)
- Symphony No. 2 (1987)
- Symphony No. 3 (1991/2007)
- Symphony No. 4 (1993)
- Symphony No. 5 (2000)
- Symphony No. 6 (2004)
- Symphony No 7 (2004)
- Symphony No 8 (2008)
- Symphony No. 9 (2011)
- Symphony No. 10 (2018)
- Tears (1994)
- Testament (2001)
- Traveler (2003)
- A Tuning Piece: Songs of Fall and Winter (1995)
- ufo dreams (1999)
- Unending Stream of Life (2007)
- Variants on a Hymn Tune (1995)