Finding a Way
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 4:15
Difficulty: III 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $78.00; (digital) - $78.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
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
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bells
- Cabasa
- Crash Cymbals
- Hi-Hat
- Mark Tree
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Finding a Way is a musical depiction of the resiliency of the human spirit. There are times when life presents challenges, and when put to the test, we have to search and find a way to navigate and find peace, or resolve and bounce back. Most often we are able to find resolution and follow sorrow with acceptance, many times with fond remembrance and joy.
Beginning with an unresolved emotion (and motive), Finding a Way travels through many emotions looking for a way to find resolve and comfort. Rather than languishing in a mournful state, it conveys an uplifting and hopeful spirit that ultimately find peace. Once the sense of comfort has been established, an uplifting celebration is apparent. When healing has had a chance to occur, sadness and sorrow can become replaced with delight and excitement of our memories. The piece concludes with a restatement of the opening, questioning motive, but this time with the question answered.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class BB
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Holiday Rock (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
- Ride Through the Valley (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Ablaze
- Above the Clouds (2011)
- Air and Jig (as arranger) (2014)
- Air Force One (2011)
- All Fired Up (2017)
- American Frontier (2012)
- American Pride (as arranger) (2018)
- Among the Stars, You'll Shine (2023)
- Ancient Carol Variants (2013)
- …And Goodnight (2014)
- Animal Parade (2019)
- Appalachian Expedition (2012)
- Armored Knights (2018)
- Atomic Clock (2013)
- Attack of the Zombies (2019)
- Autopilot (2017)
- Battlestar! (2011)
- Boundless (2017)
- Call to the Heroes (2013)
- Cool Breeze (2021)
- Curse of the Pharaohs (2015)
- Dancing Kites (2015)
- Doctor Rhythm (2016)
- Dolce (2020)
- Dragon Run (2022)
- El Toro (2016)
- Empire City Overture (2016)
- Explorations (2012)
- Festival Fanfare and March (2014)
- Finding a Way (2015)
- Flash Flood (2013)
- Folk Song Celebration (as arranger) (2021)
- Forevermore (2018)
- Golden Celebration Overture (2021)
- A Hanukkah Festival (as arranger) (2011)
- Heartbeats in Shadows (2012)
- Heebie Jeebies (2015)
- High Octane (2019)
- Holiday Celebrations (as arranger) (2015)
- Holiday Rock (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
- In a New Light (2016)
- It's All Right (as arranger) (2021)
- Liftoff (2021)
- Lion Pride (2022)
- Machine Age (2015)
- March of the Robot Brigade (2016)
- Momentum (2014)
- Moonrise and Dance (2013)
- Mystic Voyage (2010)
- Mythos (2009)
- Night Journey (2010)
- On the Cape (2019)
- Pony Express (2009)
- Pop Goes the Band (2017)
- Returning Home (2015)
- Ride On (2010)
- Ride Through the Valley (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Ritual (2010)
- Shadow Warriors (2017)
- Shattered (2018)
- Skydive (2016)
- Snowfall (2017)
- Stomp, Clap, Snap Tango! (2009)
- Stonybrook Overture (2010)
- Sussex Anthem (2012)
- This Day Forward (2012)
- Through A Child’s Eyes (2011)
- To the Fore (2014)
- To the Moon (2014)
- Tribal Fusion (2011)
- Turbulence!
- Vanguard (2017)
- Vertigo (2012)
- Wind of the Waves (2018)
- Winds of Eternity (2016)
- Winter Whispers (2014)
- With Honor (2013)
- Workforce (2015)
- Worksite (2015)
Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 70.7 (2016): 57. Print
- Perusal score