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Heavy Weather
Subtitle: Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 23:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $450.00 | Score Only (print) - $80.00
Movements
1. Heat Wave – 9:50
2. Supercell/Threnody and Dissipation – 13:00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Tuba
Flute I-II-III (all doubling Piccolo)
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Contra-Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV-V
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-VI
Horn in F I-VI
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
Harp
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Crotales
- Crystal Glass
- Glockenspiel
- Gongs (pitched)
- Marimba
- Mark Tree
- Rainstick
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam (small)
- Tenor Drum
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Heavy Weather seeks to describe two powerful meteorological phenomena that can cause much damage and discomfort to humans -- a heat wave and a supercell. Rather than simply describing how one may be affected by a first-hand experience with one of these weather events, Heavy Weather attempts to depict the actual natural processes involved.
A supercell is a product of a highly unstable atmosphere. When a cold dry air mass collides with a warm moist air mass, supercells can form. Compared to a normal thunderstorm, a supercell is much severe and longer-lived. As the thunderheads build darker and higher, an upwardly rotating column of air (called the “updraft”) forms. The updraft is responsible for the formation of hail, and ultimately is instrumental in the formation of one of the most terrifying forces of nature, the tornado. As the storm grows more and more powerful and destructive, it becomes clear that, while man can control many things in this world, the weather remains out of our grasp. The piece ends as it began as the storm slowly dissipates. Tenuous stability returns to the atmosphere … for now.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- The Hartt Symphony Band (West Hartford, Conn.) (Glen Adsit, conductor; Scott Mendoker, tuba) - 30 April 2022
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 30 April 2022
- Perusal score