Fireworks (Day)

Kevin Day

Subtitle: Brass Fanfare w/Percussion

General Info

Year: 2015
Duration: c. 1:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Kevin Day Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00

Instrumentation

A Piccolo Trumpet
C Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
Timpani
Bass Drum
Auxiliary Percussion

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Fireworks is a short fanfare that portrays the excitement of a firework show that you would see on the fourth of July. I had received an email from my director about the Dallas Winds Fanfare Composition Contest and I decided to give it a shot. I needed a concept and decided to go with the whole firework show idea. I wanted to capture the excitement and enticement that comes as people gaze into the sky to see these fire crackers go off.

The piece took me three days to finish and I sent it in for the contest. I later found out that the piece won and was to be performed on July 4, 2016, by the Dallas Winds brass and percussion section.

- Program Note by composer

Media

Audio: [https://www.kevindaymusic.com/band-grade-5 Reference recording. Lone Star Youth Winds (Bobby Francis, conductor)

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) Wind Symphony (Bobby R. Francis, conductor) - 28 September 2023
Gonzaga University (Spokane, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Peter J. Hamlin, conductor) - 4 December 2021
University of Missouri Kansas City Conseratory Wind Symphony (Steven D. Davis, conductor) - 26 September 2021
University of Colorado Boulder Wind Symphony (Donald McKinney, conductor) - 7 December 2020
University of Cincinnati (Ohio) College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony (Kevin Michael Holzman, conductor) - 10 October 2020
Lone Star Youth Winds (Dallas, Tex.) (Bobby R. Francis, conductor) – 8 May 2016

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. See: Symphony Basquiat
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

Day, K. (2015). Fireworks: Brass Fanfare w/Percussion [score]. Kevin Day Music: [United States]
Kevin Day website Accessed 15 May 2016