Rush
General Info
Year: 2006
Duration: c. 3:33
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts - $110.00 | Score Only - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion (7 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Brake Drum
- Chimes
- China Cymbal
- Crash Cymbal
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-hat
- Ride Cymbal
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam (or Gong)
- Tom (medium)
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Written as a follow-up to his wildly successful composition Ride, this Samuel Hazo work is an exhilarating display of rhythmic intensity featuring shifting meters and dynamic wind band scoring.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Kennesaw Mountain High School Wind Symphony (David Starnes, conductor) - 2006
State Ratings
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
- Minnesota: MN HS LEAGUE BAND CATEGORY II
- North Carolina: VI
- Tennessee: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Ashland (Ohio) University Symphonic Band (Joseph Lewis Jr., conductor) - 25 April 2021
- University of Leeds (England) Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Mark Jump, conductor) – 24 November 2018
- Phoenix (N.Y.) Community Band (Ronald Nuzzo, conductor) - 21 May 2018
- Bethel College (Mishawaka, Ind.) Wind Ensemble (Mike Kendall, conductor) - 12 April 2018
- Palm Desert (Calif.) High School Wind Ensemble (N. Guy Lake, conductor) – 23 February 2018
- Sand Hills (Buies Creek, N.C.) Wind Symphony (Charles Dwayne Wilson, conductor) – 12 November 2015
- Kennesaw Mountain High School (Kennesaw, Ga.) Wind Symphony (David Starnes, conductor) – 20 December 2006 (2006 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Our Kingsland Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2005/2015)
All Wind Works
- Across the Halfpipe. See: Minnesota Portraits
- Ascend. See: Georgian Suite
- Alleluia (2012)
- Arabesque (2008/2009)
- Arrows (2014)
- As Winds Dance (2003)
- Autumn on White Lake (2010)
- Blessings
- Blue and Green Music (2011)
- Books With Blank Pages (2015)
- Bridges (2007)
- Chorus Angelorum (2009)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2008/2011)
- The Christmas Music of Samuel Hazo
- Danny Boy (as arranger) (2013)
- Diamond Fanfare (2006)
- Drums of the Saamis (2014)
- Each Time You Tell Their Story (2003)
- Echoes (2005)
- Enchanted Spaces (2012)
- Everything Beautiful (2015)
- The Stillness of Remembering (2015/2016)
- Exultate (2001/2003)
- Fantasy on a Japanese Folksong (1997/2005)
- For Heaven and the Future (2016)
- From Gold (2015)
- Georgian Suite (2002-2006)
- Our Kingsland Spring (2006)
- Our Kingsland Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2005/2015)
- Rivers (2002)
- Ascend (2005)
- Glorificare (2013)
- ...Go (2008)
- Hennepin County Dawn. See: Minnesota Portraits
- In Flight (2000/2008)
- In Heaven's Air (2002)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (2012)
- Jubilatéo (Fanfare and Allegro) (2013)
- Keltic Variations (2003)
- Minnesota Portraits (2008)
- Mountain Thyme (2013)
- Novo Lenio (2002)
- Olympiada (1997/2002)
- Our Kingsland Spring. See: Georgian Suite
- Our Yesterdays Lengthen like Shadows (2010)
- Parkour (2011)
- Perthshire Majesty (2003/2004)
- Psalm 42 (2004)
- The Quest (2002)
- Rest. See: Minnesota Portraits
- Ride (2002)
- Rising Star (2006)
- Rivers. See: Georgian Suite
- Rush (2006)
- Seconds Out (2013)
- Sevens (2005)
- Siorai September (2011)
- Sky Is Waiting (2006)
- Sòlas Ané (2006)
- Southern Hymn (2009)
- Stella Maris (2014)
- The Stillness of Remembering. See: Everything Beautiful
- Their Blossoms Down (2002)
- Three Concert Fanfares (2007)
- To Be (2019)
- Today Is the Gift (2006)
- Voices of the Sky (2005)
- We Meet Again (2010)
- Whisper to their Souls (2008)
- A Zillion Nickels (2015)
Resources
- Hazo, S. (2006). Rush [score]. Musicworks: Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Samuel R Hazo website Accessed 8 April 2018