Life Stream
Subtitle: For Symphonic Winds and Percussion
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 6:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manhattan Beach Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $395.00 | Score Only (print) - $125.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
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
Contra-Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Claves
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Slapstick
- Suspended Cymbal (medium large)
- Tam-tam (large)
- Temple Blocks
- Triangle (medium)
- Wood Block (medium)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The opening of my work Life-Stream, inspired by the deeply thoughtful poem Stream of Life [by Rabindranath Tagore], is a flash of joyful rapid movement. In the poem, life flows, runs, throbs, rocks, dances, shouts in joy. It is a stream flowing through all living things.
My piece celebrates the poems' life-affirming message. Short musical motives or gestures are layered upon one another forming intricate collages.
The middle of section is calm, reflecting on the words, “It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean, cradle of birth, and of death, in ebb and in flow. “Here, the music gently rocks like a quiet lullaby, an occasional birdsong fluttering high above.
A bright, ecstatic mood returns, and the music builds to an exuberant climax. But then the musical ideas begin to vanish, one at a time, in a gradual fade to silence. Life’s dance goes on.
- Program Note by composer
Life-Stream was commissioned by the Jackson High School Music Department (Massillon, Ohio), Scott Eversdyke and Michele Monigold, directors.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Texas: IV. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor) - 28 September 2023
- Lone Star Youth Winds (Dallas, Tx.) (Andrew Trachsel, conductor) - 15 May 2023
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Amazing Grace (Adaptable Band) (1994/2021)
- Cajun Folk Songs: Belle (Adaptable Band) (1991/2002/2020)
- Dance (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Earth Song (Adaptable Band) (2012/2020)
- Here Take This Lovely Flower (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- In C-Dorian (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- In Yonder Valley (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Joy (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Loch Lomond (Adaptable Band) (arr. Ambrose) (2002/2020)
- Moving On (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Moving On. See also: Suite Treats
- Portrait of a Clown (Adaptable Band) (1988/2020)
- Simple Gifts (four movements) (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Simple Gifts (one movement) (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Vesuvius (Adaptable Band) (1999/2020)
All Wind Works
- Abracadabra (2005)
- Acadiana (2016)
- Amazing Grace (Ticheli) (1994)
- Amazing Grace (Adaptable Band) (1994/2021)
- Amen! (2009)
- An American Elegy (2000)
- Angels in the Architecture (2009)
- Angels Rising (2023)
- Apollo Unleashed. See: Symphony No. 2
- Ave Maria (as arranger) (1825/2004)
- BASH (2021)
- Belle. See: Cajun Folk Songs: Belle
- Blue Shades (1996)
- Boundless River (2020)
- Cajun Folk Songs: Belle (Adaptable Band) (1991/2002/2020)
- Cajun Folk Songs, Part One (1990)
- Cajun Folk Songs, Part Two (1997)
- Concertino for Trombone (1987/2007)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2014)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2010)
- Concerto for Trumpet (1990/2021)
- Dance. See: Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs
- Dancing on Water (2015)
- December Snow (2015)
- Earth Song (Adaptable Band) (2012/2020)
- Earth Song for Band (2012)
- First Light (2013)
- Fortress (1988)
- Gaian Visions (1990)
- Ghost Tale (2020)
- Here Take This Lovely Flower. See: Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs
- In C-Dorian (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- In Yonder Valley. See: Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs
- Joy (2005)
- Joy (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Joy Revisited (2005)
- Korean Folksongs from Jeju Island (2013)
- Life-Stream (2022)
- Loch Lomond (2002)
- Loch Lomond (Adaptable Band) (arr. Ambrose) (2002/2020)
- Lux Perpetua (2020)
- Midnight in Nairobi (2019)
- Midnight (2019)
- Moving On (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Moving On. See also: Suite Treats
- Music for Winds and Percussion (withdrawn)
- Nitro (2006)
- Over the Moon (2023)
- Pacific Fanfare (1994/2002)
- Peace (2015)
- Portrait of a Clown (Adaptable Band) (1988/2020)
- Portrait of a Clown (1988)
- Postcard (1991)
- Rest (2011)
- Sailing the Sky (2021)
- San Antonio Dances (2010)
- Sanctuary (2006)
- Serenade for Kristin (2018)
- A Shaker Gift Song (2004)
- Shenandoah (1999)
- Silver Lining (2017)
- Simple Gifts (four movements) (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Simple Gifts (one movement) (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs (2002)
- In Yonder Valley (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Dance (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Here Take This Lovely Flower (Adaptable Band) (2002/2020)
- Songs of Love and Life (2012)
- Sun Dance (1997)
- Symphony No. 1 (tr. Green) (2001/2011)
- Symphony No. 2 (2004)
- The Tyger (2008)
- Under the Big Top (2019)
- Vesuvius (1999)
- Vesuvius (Adaptable Band) (1999/2020)
- Wild Nights! (2007)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Ticheli, F.; Tagore, R. (2022). Life-Stream: For Symphonic Winds and Percussion [score]. Manhattan Beach Music: Brooklyn, N.Y.