Unknown Friend, The
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 4:20
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alarcon Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €55.77
Instrumentation
One player per part recommended
Full Score
Flute I
Flute II/C Piccolo
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
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Glockenspiel
- Suspended Cymbal
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Luis wrote me a Cello Concerto which the Cleveland Winds recorded and filmed last year (2022), and makes a marvelous video – I go to it whenever I'm depressed. We did the UK premiere of that piece on July the 10th. Luis came across, and he came with this little piece, because Matthew, my second son, was due to come out and hear the premiere, which was in memory of my third son – all of my sons seem to die. And he never came, because he died in August [2021]. So Luis never met him, and so this is dedicated to Matthew – to The Unknown Friend. And I think – well, somebody, I think it was Adam Gorb, said that the piece is so poignant. It's full of sentiment for me, but not sentimental. It's difficult to write band music that's not sentimental, and I think this is it.
- Program Note adapted from oral comments by Timothy Reynish
To Matthew Reynish. In memoriam.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Louisville (Ky.) Concert Band (Timothy Reynish, conductor) - 21 December 2023 (2023 Midwest Clinic)
- Shishiki Gakuen Music University (Tokyo, Japan) Green Tie Wind Ensemble (Timothy Reynish, conductor) - 5 December 2023
- North Cheshire (UK) Wind Orchestra (Timothy Reynish, conductor) – 12 March 2023
- Cleveland Winds (Cleveland, Ohio) (Timothy Reynish, conductor) – 5 March 2023
- University of Kentucky (Lexington) Wind Symphony (John Cody Birdwell, conductor) – 28 February 2023
- Irish Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Cork) – 29 January 2023
- Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) Alumni Wind Orchestra (Luis Serrano Alarcón, conductor) – 10 July 2022
- Unión Musical Santa Cecilia (Villar del Arzobispo, Spain) Symphonic Band (Luis Serrano Alarcón, conductor) – 16 October 2021 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Angelita (2012/2014)
- Cello Concerto (2021)
- Charlie, the Chameleon (2013), from Bestiarium
- Concertango (2004)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- De Tiempo y Quimera (2005)
- Duende (2010)
- El Torico de la Cuerda (2002/2006)
- Enric Cullell (2014)
- Invocación (2017)
- La Dama Centinela (2009)
- La Lira de Pozuelo (2010)
- Marco Polo Trilogy
- Marco Polo: El Libro de la India (2013)
- Marco Polo: The Cathay Years (2010)
- Marco Polo: La Ruta de la Seda (2006)
- Memorias de un Hombre de Ciudad (2003)
- Pas de Quatre (2019)
- Pequeña Suite para Banda (2008)
- Preludio y Danza del Alba (2006)
- Second Symphony (2017)
- Spanish Dances (2021)
- Symphony for Wind Orchestra (2012)
- Three Sketches for Wind Ensemble (2014)
- Tim (2018)
- Tramonto (2007)
- The Unknown Friend (2021)
Resources
- Alarcón Music website Accessed 28 February 2023