Ford's Machine
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General Info
Year: 2011
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: HaFaBra Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €148.00 | Score Only (print) - €30.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ford’s Machine is a homage to one of America’s great innovators, Henry Ford. Ford’s assembly line method of manufacturing revolutionized American industry, helping the USA become an economic powerhouse. Throughout the piece, there are nods to American composers such as Aaron Copland, William Schuman, and John Adams.
- Program Note from publisher
Henry Ford represents all of the best qualities of the American spirit. His innovative and entrepreneurial approach to industry led him to develop the assembly line method of manufacturing, which in turn helped the U.S.A. to develop into the economic powerhouse that it is today. Of course, Henry Ford is most commonly associated with the automobile that bears his name, and while he didn't invent the automobile, he did help to make the automobile available to the average American, thereby mobilizing an entire nation.
Ford's Machine is a celebration of the best qualities of the American spirit as exemplified by Henry Ford. The piece begins with a fanfare which is based on Ford's name (F-dO-Re-D). The F-O-R-D motive is to appear many times throughout the piece in differing guises. After the opening fanfare, there begins a musical description of a large factory. The music here grinds, clangs and thuds along, driven by the relentless pounding of the percussion. The factory finally grinds to a halt, and a celebration of the golden age of the American automobile begins. Overt allusions to the 12-bar blues form, swing rhythms, and the sound of car horns combine into a joyous celebration of Ford's America. Eventually, the industrial factory sounds take over again, building into a climax before the F-O-R-D fanfare motive appears again as a chorale in the brass, bringing Ford's Machine full circle to a triumphant close.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Lone Star Wind Orchestra (Dallas, TX) (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) – 27 January 2019
- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Wind Ensemble (Evan Feldman, conductor) – 18 April 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Agua Nocturna (2010)
- And Can It Be (2009)
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Burning Music (2011)
- Chamber Concerto No. 1 (2012)
- 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 (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)
- Last Dances of Prospero (2009)
- Light Beyond Shadow (as arranger) (2020/2022)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby for Leaving (2021)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Lux Veritas,
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- The Mountain Whippoorwill (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Nuclear Family (2014)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Red Rover (2019)
- Rumpelstilzchen (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Resources
- Jess Langston Turner website Accessed 25 January 2019
- Perusal score