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Storm
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This work is the second movement of the composer's Symphony No. 1, New Orleans Symphony.
General Info
Year: 2008
Duration: c. 4:05
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00 | Score Only (print) - $30.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast. This is my attempt to conjure up that storm. Blistering unison lines are passed back and forth between woodwinds and brass and then the low woodwinds play a foreboding melody that is the same as the blistering melody, but augmented into longer note values, as if the storm is approaching from a distance. Then the musical tension increases through heightened chromaticism, frequent key changes, and increasingly contrapuntal textures. Fragments of the hymn tune Nettleton, which we heard in the first movement, are heard multiple times, each time more desperate. Finally, the chaos and confusion in the music surges to a climactic and dramatic pause. Then the music bursts forth with destructive power, breaking through the levees and engulfing the city with water. The music dissipates, the storm is over, but the city is devastated.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Cradle Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Second to None (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Stomping Ground (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- The Blawenburg Quick March (2009)
- Commonwealth Fanfare (2022)
- Cradle Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Emeritus (2015)
- From the Banks to the Blue Ridge
- Light the Way (2019)
- Murmurations
- Our Reply (2018)
- Ring Out, Wild Bells!
- Salaam (2009)
- Second to None (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Shining Through
- Stomping Ground (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Symphony No. 1 (2008)
- Jackson Square (2008)
- Storm (2008)
- Lament (2008/2015)
- Play! (2008/2015)
- When Friends Rejoice
- Within Our Reach (2019)
Resources
- Carl Holmquist website Accessed 31 October 2020