Kitty Hawk, 1903
Subtitle: The Dream of Flight
General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 4:10
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The audience will be transported back to December 17, 1903 -- the day Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted the historic first airplane flight. Wind chimes and air blowing through various instruments take us to the windswept beach where the flight took place. As the music intensifies through a flurry of woodwinds and bold brasses, the plane takes off. Gentle harmonies and countermelodies take us along for the ride and the exhilarating theme returns to conclude the piece as the plane touches down.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the 2011 ATSSB All-State Band by the Association of Texas Small School Bands, Robert Vetter, President.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Hebron High School (Carrollton, Tx.) Wind Symphony (Rodney Klett, conductor) - 2010
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class CC
- Ohio: OMEA Junior School Band A
- Tennessee: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Rancho Cordova (Calif.) River City Concert Band (Tom Seaton, conductor) - 19 March 2023
- University of Akron (Ohio) Concert Band (Alfred Watkins, conductor) – 14 February 2022
- Henderson State University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Concert Band (Raven Morris, conductor) – 12 March 2018
- Shaker Heights (Ohio) Middle School 7th Grade Symphonic Winds (Jeff Pattie, conductor) - 2015
- Hebron High School (Carrollton, Tx.) Wind Symphony (Rodney Klett, conductor) – 17 December 2010 (2010 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
All Wind Works
- Across the Great Plains (2017)
- After the Darkness (2021)
- Albany Fanfare (2011)
- All Things So Wondrous
- Antiphon (2011)
- Battle Command
- Big Bend (2023)
- The Blue Orchid (2005)
- Blue Sky (2002)
- But Joy Comes... (2010)
- Captain Dane (2003)
- Carnegie Anthem (2012)
- Carpathia (2007)
- Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Caverns of Sonora (2019)
- Chisholm
- Congolese (2017)
- Corps of Discovery (2010)
- Country Day Dances (2004)
- Courtlandt County Festival (2004)
- Credo (2012)
- Curtain Up!
- Dances Americanesque (2008)
- Declaration and Dance (2010)
- Destined to Fly (2018)
- Egyptique (2010)
- The Eighth Day (2022)
- El Pato Loco (2010)
- El Vaquero! (2017)
- Every Day New (2018)
- Excelsior! (2008)
- Exhaltations! (2006)
- Fandango Caliente (2017)
- Fantasia on "Adeste Fidelis" (as arranger) (2007)
- Festive Proclamation (2015)
- Flourishes! (2019)
- Flourishes! (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Great Wall (2016)
- Hark! (A Holiday Celebration) (As arranger)
- Heavenwards (2015)
- Heroes Triumphant (2012)
- Hopak! (2014)
- In Autumn (2009)
- In Joyful Celebration (2003)
- Ironclads (The Monitor and the Merrimack) (2012)
- Journey of the Bonfire (2017)
- Jupiter (as arranger) (1916/2006)
- Kamehameha (2006)
- Kitty Hawk, 1903 (2010)
- Krakatoa (2008)
- Maesong (2004)
- Mars (as arranger) (1916/2009)
- The Mighty 97th (2008)
- New Horizons March (2016)
- Of Gentle Spirit
- Paintings (2011)
- Paradise Awaiting... (2017)
- Quicksilver (2018)
- Resplendence (2017)
- Silversides (2021)
- The Southern Dawn (1998/2002)
- Spit-Fire (2013)
- Summit Fanfare (2008)
- The Tahoka Galop (2004)
- Tangelridge (2009)
- Tambora! (2013)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Terracotta (2009)
- Three Scottish Vistas (2007)
- To Her Majesty's Delight (2020)
- Tudor Sketches (2013)
- Tundra (2018)
- Wedgwood March (2002)
- The Wings of Mercury
- With Valor and Brave Heart (2011)
- The World's Greatest Show! (2022)
- Yonaguska (2016)
- Zia (2014)
Resources
- Perusal score
- William Owens website Accessed 29 August 2021