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Golden Grey, The
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General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 8:35
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Roy Magnuson
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Players humming
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
I have a memory of an early morning storm, slowly moving over a field of harvest-ready corn. The morning sun, still visible to the east, shone down across the field, making the yellow and brown crops shine bright gold. The contrast between the dark, purple storm and vibrant, shimmering field was staggering. Separate, the two elements are iconic, powerful. But together, they are a beautiful balance of bitter and sweet, dark and light, life and death. The Golden Gray is an exploration of this balance and ultimately a celebration of black and white, sweet and sour, beginnings and endings.
Commissioned by Christopher Werner and the La Crosse High School Wind Ensemble, La Crosse, Wisc., February 2009.
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Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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- Illinois State University (Normal) Wind Symphony (Joe Manfredo, conductor) – 22 October 2017
- Illinois State University Wind Ensemble (Steve Steele, conductor – 7 March 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Book of the Dead (2012)
- Bound (2016)
- Five Toasts for Trombone and Wind Ensemble
- Flutter and Kick (2015)
- The Golden Gray (2009)
- Harvest Moon (2004)
- House Plants in Terracotta Pots (2014)
- in case of emergency (2014)
- Innsmouth, Massachusetts - 1927 (2014)
- little night (rain) music, A (2016)
- Seeking, Seeking (2008)
- the softest breath (2019)
- That Dear Land of Rest (2012)
Resources
- Roy Magnuson website Accessed 21 October 2017