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Lightning Field
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 5:20
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Osti Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $125.00 | Score Only - $20.00
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
Prepared Piano
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- China Cymbal
- Marimba
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Crash Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Thunder Tubes (3)
- Tom-Tom (4)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
John Mackey's Lightning Field takes its title from a work of art by Walter De Maria. That work is a massive expanse, 385 acres, of New Mexico desert, claimed and transformed by the artist via an installation of 400 steel rods: planted in the earth and reaching toward the sky, they call down its power -- literally creating man-made lightning storms. Like them, Mackey's piece speaks to the ancient impulse to summon nature's power, and the magic such acts unleash.
A sense of energy runs throughout the work, with the driving onstage percussion enhanced by the sound of thunder (provided by inexpensive hand-held percussion instruments called "thunder tubes") surrounding the audience.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- Texas: III. Complete
Performances
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- Buchanan High School (Clovis, Calif.) Wind Symphony (John Lack, conductor) - 24 March 2023 (2023 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- The Ohio State University (Columbus) University Band (Alex Mandragon, conductor) - 23 February 2023
- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Campus Band (Andrew Bohn, conductor) - 16 November 2022
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) North Star Campus Band (Lauren Visel, conductor) -- 20 October 2022
- Texas A&M University (College Station) Concert Band (Lance Sample, conductor) - 2 October 2022
- California All-State Junior High School Concert Band (Jeanne Christensen, conductor) – 20 February 2022 (2022 CASMEC Conference, Fresno)
- Bridgewater (Va.) College Symphonic Band (Christine Carrillo, conductor) - 7 November 2021
- Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.) Symphony Band (Julia Baumanis, conductor) - 14 October 2021
- Madison (S.D.) High School Band (Nicole Decker, conductor) - 16 May 2021
- Columbus (Ohio) State Community College Concert Band (Thomas Lloyd, conductor) - 20 April 2020 (planned but not performed)
- University of Tulsa (Okla.) Wind Ensemble (Richard Wagner, conductor) – 10 March 2020
- University of Tulsa (Okla.) Symphonic Winds (Aaron Wacker, conductor) – 2 March 2020
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Maroon Campus Band (Lance Sample, conductor) – 2 December 2019
- University of Southern Main (Gorham) Concert Band (Jackie Townsend, conductor) – 13 November 2019
- Austin (Tx.) Symphonic Band (Richard Floyd, conductor) – 12 November 2019
- Antelope Valley College (Palmdale, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Gary Heaton-Smith, conductor) – 5 May 2019
- Metropolitan Wind Symphony (Lexington, Mass). (Louis J. Buckley, conductor) – 5 May 2019
- Henderson State University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Symphony Band (Shaun R. Popp, conductor) - 1 May 2019
- Cincinnati (Ohio) Junior Youth Wind Ensemble – 29 April 2019
- Humboldt State University (Arcata, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Aaron Lopez, conductor) – 9 March 2019
- Patrick Marsh Middle School Band (Sun Prairie, Wisc.) (Chris Gleason, conductor) – 13 May 2015 – *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Antique Violences (2017)
- Asphalt Cocktail (2009)
- Aurora Awakes (2009)
- Clocking (2007)
- Concerto for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Damn (1998)
- A deep reverberation fills with stars (2022)
- Divine Mischief (2022)
- Drum Music: Concerto for Percussion (2011)
- Fanfare for Full Fathom Five (2015)
- Foundry (2011)
- The Frozen Cathedral (2012)
- Harvest: Concerto for Trombone (2009)
- High Wire (2012)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (arr. Wallace) (2010/2021)
- Kingfishers Catch Fire (2007)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (2020/2021)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Lightning Field (2015)
- Liminal (2016)
- Mom Song
- The Night Garden (2017)
- Night on Fire. See: The Soul Has Many Motions
- Places we can no longer go (2018)
- (redacted) (2013)
- Redline Tango (2004)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (2017/2018)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (arr. Blegen) (2017/2018/2020)
- Sacred Spaces (2019)
- Sasparilla (2005)
- Sheltering Sky (2012)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Snarl (2018)
- Some treasures are heavy with human tears (2021)
- Songs from the End of the World (2015)
- The Soul Has Many Motions (2013)
- Night on Fire (2013)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Strange Humors (2006)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Strange Humors (saxophone ensemble) (2006/2021)
- This Cruel Moon (2014/2017)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Turbine (2006)
- Turning (2007)
- Undertow (2008)
- Until the Scars (2014/2019)
- Wine-Dark Sea (2014)
- Xerxes (2010)
Resources
- Batcheller, James. "Lightning Field." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 368-375. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.
- Perusal score