Windborne
Subtitle: Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $250.00 | Score Only (print) - $75.00
Movements
1. Aero-Schematics
2. Cloud Dreams
3. Flying machine
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Horn in F
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
C Trumpet I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Contra-Bass
Piano/Celeste
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Drum Set
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Windborne: Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble is my fifth concerto commission, this time in collaboration with my dear friend and soloist Steven Cohen, whom I am greatly thankful for in supporting this project.
This three-movement work is inspired by the life of a family member of mine named Oscar Desper Jr., my great uncle on my mother’s side. I never got the chance to meet him but heard many stories of him as a kid from my mother about his work in aeronautical engineering and the Rockwell International Space Shuttle Program. Before I chose my path to go into music for college, I originally wanted to be an aeronautical engineer too, with dreams of wanting to fly and explore the unknown.
With this context in mind, the three movements, Aero-Schematics, Cloud Dreams, and Flying Machine explore this aeronautical process of designing an aircraft and witnessing that design come to life. The “flying” concept for the concerto started by replaying experiences in my head hearing horns. I’ve always loved the epic and beautiful sound of the instrument, as well as its ability make the listener feel like they are soaring.
-Program Note by composer
For Steven Cohen.
- Program Note from score
It has different qualities like a fighter jet, zooming around, and then the second movement is very floaty and ethereal and gentle, and then you come rip-roaring out through the end.
- Program Note by Carolyn Barber
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Central Washington University (Ellensburg) Wind Ensemble (T. André Feagin, conductor; Jeffrey Snedeker, horn) - 1 June 2023
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor; Steven Cohen, horn) – 8 April 2022 (CBDNA 2022 North Central Conference, Madison, Wisc.) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
- Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- All the Day Long (2017)
- Aurora (arr. Trentadue) (2021/2023)
- Christmas in Spain (2016)
- Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2021)
- Dancing Fire (2016)
- Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
- Deep Blue (2022)
- Dual Strides (2022)
- Ecstatic Samba (arr. Trentadue) (2017/2022)
- Ember Skies (2021)
- Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- enter data sequence (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- The Essence of Being (arr. Trentadue) (2021/2022)
- Fantasia for Alto Sax and Marimba (2016)
- Fireworks (2015)
- Flash Fury (2023)
- Galactic Voyage (2018)
- Ignition (2018/2020)
- Havana (2018)
- Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- A Hymn for Peace (2017)
- A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- J.R. (2017)
- Lightning Round (2022)
- Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- Metallic Figures
- More than Words... (2020)
- MOTO (2023)
- Night Sketches I (2016)
- Nitrous (2020)
- On Shores of Endless Sea (2022)
- Pyrotechnics (2019)
- Requiem for the Unarmed (2020/2022)
- River Memoria (2022)
- Rocketship! (2017)
- Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Sangre Royal (2023)
- Shimmering Sunshine (2019). See also: Of Day and Night
- Solace in the Wind (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2023)
- A Song for Tomorrow (2019)
- Summit (2020)
- Symphony Basquiat (2023)
- Tango Oscuro (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Unquiet Waters (2020/2023)
- Variation V (arr. Collins) (2020/2022)
- Windborne (2022)
Resources
- Kevin Day website Accessed 29 March 2022
- Perusal score
- "Wind Ensemble to premiere ‘Windborne’ concerto on March 30." Nebraska Today, 17 March 2022. Web. Accessed 29 March 2022