I Am
From Wind Repertory Project
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General Info
Year: 1990
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos Music Company - Official Website
Cost: Score & Parts - $50.00 | Score Only - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
Alto Saxophone I-II br />
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II-III-IV
French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-tam)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Timpani
- Tom-Toms
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Woodblock
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
I Am was commissioned by Craig Aune and the Cedar Rapids Prairie High School Band of Cedar Rapids, Iowa in February, 1990. It was written in memory of Lynn Jones, a baritone saxophone player in the band who was killed in an auto accident during that winter. The work is basically tonal in nature, but includes extended techniques such as an aleatoric section and singing from members of the ensemble. The aleatoric section is intended to represent the foggy morning of the crash in which Jones died. The words "I Am" are taken from a poem that he wrote just days before his death. The piece is not intended in any way to be an elegy. Instead, it is a celebration, a reaffirmation, of life.
I Am
Life, Music, Competition.
I like exciting things, and doing good for others.
Beauty, Successfulness and Smartness are important to me.
I like to achieve recognition.
I can succeed if I really put my mind to it.
I am very set in my ways,
But I can change when I realize my ignorance.
I like a simple nonchalant lifestyle.
I hate ignorance.
I hate structuredness.
This is me. I am!
-Lynn Jones
January, 1990
Program Note by Andrew Boysen, Jr.
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Audio Links
State Ratings
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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
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- Branden's Rainbow
- Casus Belli
- Celebration In Brass
- Conversations With The Night
- Distorted Images: A Jazzman's Nightmare
- Fallen Leaf, A
- Fantasy on a Theme Sousa
- Four Horsemen, The
- Grant Them Eternal Rest
- John Henry
- Joyride
- Kinetic Energy
- Kirkpatrick Fanfare
- Ovations
- Relentless
- Shades of Ivory
- Simple Song
- Song of the Sea Maidens
- Symphony No. 4
- Thoughts Of You
- Tricycle
- Uncommon Man-Portrait Of Herbert Hoover, An
- Unraveling
- Urban Scenes
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