Dillon's Flight
General Info
Year: 2007
Duration: c. 5:05
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $72.00; (digital) - $72.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
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
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (or PAD Bass)
Synthesizer
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Cabasa
- Chimes
- Congas
- Crash Cymbals
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba (optional)
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Inspired by the legend of the Phoenix! This bird of fire, here from the beginning of time, is still living today in a hidden desert land. In order to live, the Phoenix must be consumed by fire and rise from the ashes in glorious triumph. This dynamic musical depiction resonates with energy and inspiration.
- Program Note adapted from publisher
Dillon's Flight is based upon the ideals and precepts established by the code of conduct at Emerson J. Dillon School. Being located in the community of Phoenix, New York, their mascot, appropriately, is the mythical bird that I found in the legends of Egypt Greece, China, Arabia and Native American cultures. It is a bird of fire that doe not lay eggs, ha no younglings, was here at the beginning of time and still lives today in a hidden desert land. It I the glorious bird of the sun that possesses red and gold dazzling brilliant feather like the sun itself. Every 500 years, the sun burn down on the Phoenix until a flash of light appears and it becomes consumed by the flames of fire. From the pile of silvery-grey ash rises up a young Phoenix, which grows rapidly until its original size I recaptured. The young Phoenix then take flight and sings its glorious song to the sun for another 500 years.
Commissioned by the Emerson J. Dillon Select Band, Phoenix, New York, James DeMauro, David Frateschi and Kim Gould, conductors.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Grisham Middle School Band (Betty Bierschenk-Pierce, conductor) - 2008
State Ratings
- Indiana: ISSMA JH/MS/ELEM BAND GROUP I
- South Carolina: IV
- Tennessee: IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Grove City (Penn.) College Wind Ensemble (Andrew S. Erb, conductor) - 17 October 2023
- GMEA District 13 Clinic Band (Lorne Reid, conductor) – 8 February 2014
- Grisham Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Band (Betty Bierschenk-Pierce, conductor) – 18 December 2008 (2008 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- American Hymn Tune Trilogy (as arranger) (2001)
- Areopogus (2011)
- Ashford Celebration (2001)
- Auld Tannenbaum (2008)
- Bellingrath Gardens (2003)
- Blunderbuss Battles (2012)
- Broadway Classics (as arranger) (2003)
- Cango Caves (2002)
- Christmas Bossa Nova (as arranger) (2001)
- Classical Gas (as arranger) (2014)
- CompleX 2030 (2013)
- Con Brio (2012)
- Cotton Ferry Expedition (2007)
- Coventry Carol (as arranger) (2009)
- Creepers in the Castle (2015)
- Dancin' on the Bayou (2003)
- Dark Adventure (2001)
- The Dark Knight Rises (as arranger) (2013)
- Dervish (2008)
- Desperado (as arranger)
- Dillon's Flight (2007)
- Dimensions (2003)
- Divas! (as arranger) (2001)
- Down Home Christmas (as arranger) (2006)
- Dumb Love (as arranger) (2013)
- Dune Buggy (2012)
- El Tiburon! (2017)
- Everything is Awesome (as arranger) (2014)
- Fantasy Carol (as arranger) (2005)
- Fire Caves of Golgathon (2006)
- Fire's Edge (2015)
- For All the Wyle Eternal (2009)
- Frosty's Caribbean Holiday (as arranger) (2003)
- Funkytown (as arranger) (2014)
- G-Force Five (2005)
- Galileo's Vision (2004)
- Give Up the Funk (as arranger) (2012)
- Gizmo (2011)
- Go West! (as arranger) (2004)
- Happy Birthday Around the World (as arranger) (2003)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part II (as arranger) (2011)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (as arranger) (2001/2005)
- High School Cadets (as arranger) (2000)
- Highlights from "The Lord of the Rings" (as arranger) (2002)
- Hip-Hop All the Way (as arranger) (2005)
- Hooroosh! (2006)
- House of Cards Theme (as arranger) (2013/2015)
- Hyperdrive (2014)
- Idols of America (as arranger) (2004)
- In Glorious Splendour (as setter) (2011)
- Invasion! (2019)
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (as arranger) (2004)
- It's My Party (as arranger) (1963/2001)
- It's Vegas, Baby
- Journey of the Taikonaut (2004)
- Kernkraft 400 (as arranger) (2012)
- The Last Battle (2003)
- Layla (as arranger) (2007)
- Let it Snow!/Winter Wonderland (as arranger) (2005)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (as arranger) (2001)
- Lux Prima (as arranger) (1791/2008)
- Minecraft (as arranger) (2011/2015)
- Minnie the Moocher (as arranger) (2013)
- Moonlight Serenade (as arranger) (2004)
- New Age Christmas (as arranger) (2000)
- Ooh La La (as arranger) (2014)
- Panopticon Rising (2015)
- Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (as arranger) (2000)
- Patton (as arranger) (2007)
- Pippin (as arranger) (2014)
- Pique Dame Highlights (as arranger) (2012)
- Planet X (2015)
- Quantum Mission (2009)
- Rogue River (2019)
- Romanza (1991/2002)
- Royal Canadian Sketches (2001)
- Sailing Onward until Dawn (2013)
- Secret Agent Man (as arranger) (2002)
- She Flies with Her Own Wings (2015)
- Majestic Columbia
- Galaxy in Crater Lake
- Rogue River (2015/2019)
- Sea to Sky
- Beyond Whistler (2008)
- March: The Lion's Gate (2007)
- Shannon Falls (2007)
- Stawamus Chief (2008)
- The Sleeping Place of the Stars (2004)
- Slip and Slide (2000)
- Slovenian Folk Dances (as arranger) (2005)
- Songs of Aloha (2014)
- Soul Man (as arranger) (1967/2012)
- Sounds of Joy (as arranger) (2002)
- Spirit of Troy (2010)
- Spy Games (2008)
- Strange Pursuit (2007)
- Suite from "Man of Steel" (as arranger) (2014)
- Suite from Video Games Live - Part I (as arranger) (2007)
- Suite from Video Games Live - Part 2 (as arranger) (2002/2008)
- Sun Peaks (2009)
- Swing Those Bells (as arranger) (2000)
- A Swingin' Holiday (as arranger) (2008)
- Swingin' on the Housetop (as arranger) (2001)
- Temple of Ka Uka (2008)
- Theme from "Patton" (as arranger) (1970/2007)
- To Forge the New Frontier (2000)
- Tonadillas Suite (as arranger) (2012)
- Totally Tina Turner (as arranger) (2005)
- Un Flambeau Jeannette, Isabelle (2004)
- Video Games Live, Part I. See: *Suite from Video Games Live - Part I
- Video Games Live, Part II. See: Suite from Video Games Live - Part 2
- Voices of Thronateeska (2002)
- Voyage Jubiloso (2002)
- Walvisbaai (2014)
- Winter Rhapsody (2004)
- The Wizard of Oz, Themes (as arranger) (2007)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Phoenix (mythology), Wikipedia Accessed 17 July 2021