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Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain
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Contents
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 2:10
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The squirrels ate all the birdseed. We greased the feeder’s pole so they couldn’t climb it. It rained. Hard. Out my window, I watched one lonely squirrel with his tail spread over its head scrounging under the bird feeder for dropped seeds. Occasionally, it would make a half-hearted attempt at climbing the pole, only to slowly slide back down. The squirrel cast baleful looks at me periodically. I felt sorry for it. So I wrote this piece.
- Program Note by composer.
The music is marked "Mournful, yearning, as if for food just out of reach."
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media Links
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Works for Band and Wind Ensemble
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Concertino Caboclo (2012)
- Dancefares (2016)
- Deep Calls to Deep (2016)
- The Exultant Heart (2016)
- Ford's Machine (2011)
- The Grand Processional of Our Reptilian Overlords (2019)
- He Who Would Valiant Be (2010)
- Heavy Weather -- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- I Know Moonrise (2019)
- If I Am to Leave... See: Symphony No. 1
- In Light, Accessible... (2015)
- The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (2004)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- Mountain Whippoorwill, The (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Rumpelstilzchen: A Fairy Tale for Wind Ensemble (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Chamber Works:
- And Can It Be, for brass sextet (2009)
- Agua Nocturna, for chamber winds and percussion quartet (2010)
- Burning Music, for chamber ensemble (2011)
- Falling Wrong, for bassoon and piano (2014)
- I Carry Your Heart, for soprano, piano, and flugelhorn (2008)
- Last Dances of Prospero, for horn quartet (2009)
- Lux Veritas, for brass quintet and harp
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon, for Bb clarinet, alto saxophone, cello, piano, and percussion (2013)
- Nuclear Family, for clarinet quartet (2014)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Tom O'Bedlam, for flute/alto flute and percussion (2014)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
Resources
- Jess Langston Turner website – Accessed 3 September 2020
- Perusal score
