Golden Gate
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Subtitle: Three Images for Concert Band
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stephen Michael Gryc
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $200.00 (digital) - $20.00
Movements
1. The Bridge
2. Ships in the Fog
3. Barbary Coast
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Golden Gate pays homage to the city of San Francisco in the form of a three-movement tone poem. The brassy fanfares of the first movement, The Bridge, evoke the steely strength and grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge. Movement two, Ships in the Fog, is a misty nocturne that features solos for flute and tuba. Barbary Coast, movement three, recalls the energy and illicit activity of San Francisco’s red-light district which arose as an entrepreneurial response to the Gold Rush era and later matured as an entertainment district with dance halls and jazz clubs. The fanfare motive of the first movement is recalled in Barbary Coast and then transformed into a jazz-inspired clarinet solo. The diverse percussion instruments of the third movement include castanets, sandpaper blocks, and a cuica, a type of friction drum that makes an odd grunting sound.
Golden Gate was commissioned by the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony and its conductor, Eric Rombach-Kendall, who organized a consortium of ten ensembles from eight states to support the project. The goal of the composer was to create a work that would be appropriate for high school students while maintaining the composer’s unique voice.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Washburn University (Topeka, Kan.) Wind Ensemble (J. Thomas Seddon IV, conductor) - 21 November 2021
- Lynbrook High School (San Jose, Calif.) Wind Ensemble - March 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Blue Rider
- Concerto for Winds and Percussion (2011)
- Evensong (2000)
- Fanfare for a Noble Rebel
- Fire Brigade Volunteers Quick March
- Fly High
- Golden Gate (2015)
- Guignol (2016)
- Las Campanas (2001/2009)
- Masquerade Variations on a Theme of Sergei Prokofiev (1997/2004)
- Passaggi (2005/2006)
- Rossiniana (2016)
- Six Romances after Mendelssohn (2013)
- Spring Rain (2023)
- Stone Colors (2022)
Resources
- Stephen Gryc website Accessed 16 August 2020