Flourish
General Info
Year: 1996 / 2000
Duration: c. 2:20
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos Music
Cost: Score & Parts - $65.00 | Score Only - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
F French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-tam)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Timpani (4)
- Tom-Toms (2)
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Flourish was commissioned by the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Junior and Senior Music Camps and the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Bands, Kevin Collins, director, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Summer Music Camps. It was premiered on August 3, 1996, with the composer conducting.
There is a two-fold reason for titling the work Flourish. First, the composition is indeed a "flourish" in the musical sense -- "an ornate musical passage; fanfare" is how most dictionaries define this particular meaning of the term. The second reason to use this title reflects the emphasis on environmental studies on the UW-Green Bay Campus. If something "flourishes", it "grows vigorously, succeeds, thrives, prospers". It seemed appropriate for me to use this alternate definition to dictate how the material of the composition would be generated.
The work "flourishes", if you will, from the opening interval of a minor third, stated with the pitches G and Bb (for Green Bay). As the music proceeds, elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony develop according to a natural sense of growth and evolution.
- Program Note by Timothy Mahr
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska Kearney Festival Band (Brian Albers, conductor) – 27 January 2020
- The Ohio State University Symphonic Band (Scott A. Jones, conductor) - 18 December 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adoramus Te, Christe (as arranger)
- and in this dream there were eight windows... (2003)
- Appalachian Folk Dream (2016)
- Argentum (1986)
- Blue Sky Day (2006)
- Bridge Square March (2005)
- Bright Side (2015/2018)
- Carolina Folk Dream
- Climb the Castle Walls! (2011)
- Dauntless (2015)
- Daydream (1989)
- Diamond Celebration (2009)
- Dig Down Deep (2013)
- Endurance (1991)
- Etched in Stone (2018)
- Everyday Hero (2011)
- Fanfare and Grand March (1980)
- Fantasia in G (1982)
- Festivals
- Fields of Grain as Seen From a Train (2008)
- Flourish (2000)
- GF Redux: "It's Yours", from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Heroic Rhapsody (2009)
- Heroic Valor (2009)
- Hey! (2001/2005)
- Honoris Causa (2009)
- Hymn and Celebration (1994)
- Imagine, If You Will... (2013)
- Imagining Peace (2018)
- Immigrant Dreams (1992)
- Imprints
- Inaugural Dances (2006)
- Into the Air! (1998)
- Look In/Look Out (2018)
- A Mighty March (2003)
- Mountain Prayers (2006)
- Mourning Dances (2001)
- Mr. Kallman (2019)
- Noble Element (2007)
- Passages (1984)
- Pride, Promise and Progress (2009)
- A Quiet Place To Think (1999)
- Retreat, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- The Soaring Hawk (1991)
- Sol Solator (2009)
- Spirits Ablaze (2013)
- Spring Divertimento (1992)
- Suite for Band (2014)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Uncle Lumpy's Garage (2005)
- Urgent Voices (2020)
- The View from the Mountaintop (1996)
- When I Close My Eyes, I See Dancers (1997)
Resources
- Mahr, T. (2000). Flourish [score]. Neil A. Kjos: San Diego, Calif.
- Timothy Mahr website