Storyville

James Syler

James Syler

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General Info

Year: 1996
Duration: c. 16:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: J. Ballerbach
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Rental ($350.00)   |   Score Only (print) - $40.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Storyville is a one movement “Third Stream”-type symphonic poem. Early jazz styles and contemporary devices are used in a modern setting to intensify the realities of Storyville – the infamous New Orleans prostitution district. The work is dramatic with a sense of sadness and spaciousness.

- Program Note by publisher

Three of James Syler's works – Congo Square, Storyville, Minton's Playhouse – can be performed independently or as a larger trilogy titled Three Pieces in Jazz.

- Program Note by composer

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• University of South Florida (Tampa) Wind Ensemble (Matthew McCutcheon, conductor) – 16 February 2020

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
• Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
• The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
• Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)

All Wind Works

• Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• A Blue Streak
• Cantique (2012)
• Congo Square (2016)
• Country Bandstand (2002)
• Fantasia on "Silent Night"
• Fields (1994)
• Galop (as transcriber) (c. 1909/2013)
• Gearbox (2009)
• Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
• Hocus Pocus (2013)
• The Hound of Heaven (1988)
• Hymn for Emmanuel (2015)
• Love Among the Ruins (2016)
• Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
• Minton's Playhouse (1994)
• O Magnum Mysterium (1996)
• The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
• Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Silent Shadows to the Last (2017)
• Sinfonietta (2012)
• Storyville (1996)
• Suite Louisiane (2018)
• Symphony No. 1, “Blue” (1999)
• Symphony No. 2 (2019)
• Tattoo (2005)
• The Temptation of St. Anthony (2014)
• Suite Argentine (2020)
• Wu Xing (2016)

Resources

• James Syler website Accessed 16 February 2020
• Syler, J. (1996). Storyville [score]. J. Ballerbach: Boca Raton, Fla.