Fayetteville Bop

Donald Grantham

Donald Grantham

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General Info

Year: 2002
Duration: c. 10:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Piquant Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Rental ($300.00)   |   Score Only (print) - $55.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

Fayetteville Bop is inspired by the bebop of Charlie Parker's Ree Boppers and Dizzie All Star Quintet. Their classic recordings from the 1940s are the high point of the style and not to be surpassed. Nevertheless, I wanted to try my hand at a large work that incorporates some of the aspects of this exciting and challenging music. My work is in an ABA design featuring virtuosic solos for most of the standard bebop instruments. The A sections of the piece are fast and technically demanding, featuring solos for the vibraphone and piano, and a sectional solo of the four trumpets. The trombone section reprises this material near the end of the work. The 'B' section is slower and dominated by a long solo for the alto saxophone. The work was commissioned for the University of Arkansas Bands, located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, by alumni and their chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma."

- Program Note by composer

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

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Performances

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• University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Symphony Band (Michael Haithcock, conductor) – 23 October 2019

Works for Winds by this Composer

• After Hafiz (2016)
• Baron Cimetiere's Mambo (2004)
• Baron Piquant on Pointe (2011)
• Baron La Croix's Shuffle (2007)
• Baron Samedi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) (2005)
• Bum's Rush (1994)
• Circa 1600 (2018)
• Cloudless Day, Bitter Sky (2002)
• Come, Memory (2002)
• Concerto in One Movement for Bass Trombone (1979)
• Court Music (2005)
• Don't You See? (2001)
• Effulgent Light (2017)
• Exhilaration and Cry (2008)
• Fantasy on "In Dulci Jubilo" (2015)
• Fantasy on "La Golondrina" (2003)
• Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song (1998)
• Fantasy Variations (1927/1998)
• Farewell to Gray (2001)
• Fayetteville Bop (2002)
• From an Alabama Songbook (2007)
  • Honey in the Rock (2008)
• JS Dances (2003)
• J'ai été au bal (1999)
• Kentucky Harmony (2000)
• Let Evening Come (Grantham) (2014)
• Music for the Blanton (2006)
• Northern Celebration (2001)
• Phantasticke Spirites (2002)
• Shenandoah (2017)
• Southern Harmony (1998)
  • Wondrous Love (2008)
• Sol y Sombra (2014)
• Spangled Heavens (2010)
• Starry Crown (2007)
• Symphony for Winds and Percussion (Grantham) (2009)
  • Stomp (Grantham) (2009)
• Trumpet Gloria (2006)
• Tuba Concerto (Grantham) (2012)
• Variations on an American Cavalry Song (2001)
• What Comes Around (2017)

Resources

• Donald Grantham website Accessed 27 October 2019