Colors Ever so Vibrant
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 6:25
Difficulty: IV+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Salvador Alan Jacobo
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00 | Score Only - $20.00
Instrumentation
Flutes (2-4)
Oboe
Bassoon
Contrabassoon (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinets (4-6)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophones (2-4)
B-flat Tenor Saxophones (1-2)
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpets (4-6)
Horns in F I-II-III-IV
Trombones (2-4)
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tubas I-II
Timpani
Double Bass
Percussion (6 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Suspended Cymbals
- Tam-Tam
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ever since I have accepted myself as part of the LGBTQ+ community, I have desired to show my appreciation to that loving community with music. Colors Ever So Vibrant is a musical part of me that I hold dear and that means a great deal to me and those I have grown to know in the LGBTQ+ community.
We live in a time where this community is becoming understood and accepted, but still faces much unnecessary rejection, hatred, and violence. Amidst this turmoil, my music is meant to send out a message to all those who, LGBTQ+ or not, fight for love: there is hope.
There is hope for a better society, hope for a better life, and hope for peace. And however bleak things may seem at times, we must hold on to that hope. After all, if you look up, you will find that the colors remain ever so vibrant in the sky.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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Media
- Audio: Reference recording. MIDI Realization.
- Audio: "Episode 578, Pride." Wind and Rhythm Air date 28 June 2020
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Rainbow City (Seattle, Wash.) Concert Band (Jennifer Lang-Powers, conductor) — 17 November 2023
- Ithaca (N.Y.) College Wind Symphony (Benjamin Rochford, conductor) - 8 March 2023
- Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) - 4 May 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Fanfare for Earthrealm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Havoc (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Solar Flare Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Vuelo (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
All Wind Works
- Armageddon (2018)
- Arsenal Fanfare (2017)
- Canción para Cristof (2021)
- Colors Ever So Vibrant (2017)
- The Cyber Initiative (2021)
- Deliver Us (2022)
- Discoteca (2018)
- Enchantment (2023)
- Exultation Fanfare (2018)
- Fake A, Rush B (2023)
- Fanfare for Chaosrealm (2022)
- Fanfare for Earthrealm (2019)
- Fanfare for Earthrealm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Forsaken Desires (2018)
- The Hourglass (2020)
- Havoc (2019/2022)
- Havoc (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Here to Eternity (2022)
- if we must dance... (2020)
- Infierno Interno
- Michael's Hymnal (2021)
- Midnight Hi-Jinx (2022)
- Netherrealm (2019)
- Norteño Suite (2019)
- Norteño Suite 2 (2023)
- Requiem for Forgotten Eras
- Solar Flare Fanfare (2020)
- Solar Flare Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Symphony No. III (2018)
- Symphony No. V (2021)
- Symphony No. VI (Ragnarok) (2022)
- Vuelo (2018)
- Vuelo (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Weapons of Brass Destruction (2022)
- Where're We Droppin'? 2024)
Resources
- Perusal Score
- Salvador Alan Jacobo, personal correspondence, January 2020
- Salvador Alan Jacobo website Accessed 3 August 2021