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Blue Sky Day
General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts - $90.00 (print) | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat TrumpetI-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Sandpaper blocks
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Timpani
- Tom-toms
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Nothing beats waking up in the morning, stepping outside and finding that there isn’t a cloud in the sky. Such great promise is held in a blue sky day. This work hopefully reflects the optimism embodied in this somewhat innocent phrase.
Program note by Timothy Mahr
Blue Sky Day was commissioned for the 2005 North Dakota All-State Band by the North Dakota National Band Association, and the North Dakota Music Educators Association.
Media
- Audio CD: Dobyns-Bennett High School Symphonic Band (Lafe Cook, conductor) - 2009
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of North Dakota (Bismarck) Wind Ensemble (James Popejoy, conductor) – 8 October 2019
- Indiana University (Bloomington) Concert Band (Jason H. Ham, conductor) – 21 April 2016
- University of Nevada Reno Symphonic Band (Andrew McMahan, conductor) – 11 March 2010 (CBDNA 2010 Western/Northwestern Division Conference, Reno, Nev.)
- Dobyns-Bennett High School (Kingsport, Tenn.) Symphonic Band (Lafe Cook, conductor) – 18 December 2009 (2009 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adoramus Te, Christe (as arranger)
- and in this dream there were eight windows... (2003)
- Appalachian Folk Dream (2016)
- Argentum (1986)
- Blue Sky Day (2006)
- Bridge Square March (2005)
- Bright Side (2015/2018)
- Carolina Folk Dream
- Climb the Castle Walls! (2011)
- Dauntless (2015)
- Daydream (1989)
- Diamond Celebration (2009)
- Dig Down Deep (2013)
- Endurance (1991)
- Etched in Stone (2018)
- Everyday Hero (2011)
- Fanfare and Grand March (1980)
- Fantasia in G (1982)
- Festivals
- Fields of Grain as Seen From a Train (2008)
- Flourish (2000)
- GF Redux: "It's Yours", from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Heroic Rhapsody (2009)
- Heroic Valor (2009)
- Hey! (2001/2005)
- Honoris Causa (2009)
- Hymn and Celebration (1994)
- Imagine, if you will... (2013)
- Imagining Peace (2018)
- Immigrant Dreams (1992)
- Imprints
- Inaugural Dances (2006)
- Into the Air! (1998)
- Look In/Look Out (2018)
- A Mighty March (2003)
- Mountain Prayers (2006)
- Mourning Dances (2001)
- Mr. Kallman (2019)
- Noble Element (2007)
- Passages (1984)
- Pride, Promise and Progress (2009)
- A Quiet Place To Think (1999)
- Retreat, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- The Soaring Hawk (1991)
- Sol Solator (2009)
- Spirits Ablaze (2013)
- Spring Divertimento (1992)
- Suite for Band (2014)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Uncle Lumpy's Garage (2005)
- Urgent Voices (2020)
- The View from the Mountaintop (1996)
- When I Close My Eyes, I See Dancers (1997)
Resources
- Mahr, T. (2009). Blue Sky Day [score]. Neil A. Kjos Music: San Diego, Calif.
- Perusal score
- Timothy Mahr website