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Cafe Bleu
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General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 6:40
Difficulty: IV-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Taurus Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts – Available later 2023
Instrumentation
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
During the last several years, my wife and I have created an evening ritual of playing cards and listening to music on Spotify. Originally beginning with a station centered around Postmodern Jukebox, we transitioned to New Orleans jazz and eventually to 1920s jazz style band music (both instrumental and also some of the great artists of the time). My wife had just discovered Josephine Baker and over the last four months we have spent much time with Baker’s music, as well as the musical style of other great artists such as Édith Piaf.
As a music teacher, I also recently spent several years studying An American in Paris by George Gershwin as part of my instruction with the International Baccalaureate coursework. Now listening to the music of Baker and Piaf on a regular basis (among other French style jazz singers), I have come to appreciate just how well crafted the work by Gershwin truly is. When approached to write another work, I knew I wanted to pay homage to the time I’ve spent experiencing this great music; writing a work which infuses elements from both singers, Gershwin, and my compositional language, seemed a great fit for wind ensemble.
The work will include three primary sections: an opening “bang” to a sultry orchestra, then a sweet and big band style with brushes (Gershwin inspired with some altered quotation), followed by an energetic finale utilizing the motif presented earlier.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.) Concert Band (Jonathan Sweet, conductor) - 23 April 2023
- Blinn College (Round Top, Tx.) (Sarah Burke, conductor) - 16 December 2022 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Amalthea. See: Moons of Jupiter
- Annapurna. See: Symphony No. 1
- The Archangel Gabriel (2020)
- The Beginning of All Things (2023)
- Café Bleu (2022)
- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra (2019)
- Deliverance (2020)
- Demon Dance (2011)
- The Devil's Circus (2009)
- each moment should be lived fully (2021)
- Europa. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Gathering (2019)
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Io. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Lighthouse Keeps Watch (2020)
- Memories in Vivid Color (2023)
- Moons of Jupiter (2020)
- On the Precipice
- Psalm 74 (2023)
- Remember Autumn Skies
- Rise Up (2020)
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Symphony No. 2 (2021)
- Underneath the Silence (2008)
- We Are Made of Star Stuff (2022)
- West Point. See: Symphony No. 2
- When a Good Man Goes to War (2018)
Resources
- Brooke Pierson website Accessed 16 December 2022