In Pieces
Subtitle: For wind ensemble and audio playback
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 33:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Schott EAM
Cost: Score and Parts - €409.50
Movements (played without pause)
1. Manic/Groove - 8:35
2. Weird/Sad - 7:40
3. Pick It Up - 4:05
4. Attachment - 4:20
5. Rupture Days - 3:55
6. Reprise: Pick It Up - 4:05
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-VI
Horn in F I-VI
Trombone I-II-III-IV-V
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Harp
Percussion (8 players), including:
- Claves
- Drum Sets (2)
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Tenor Drum
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Cello
Audio Playback
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In Pieces was written during a time of deep unrest. My mind was batting around, my life adrift. I was writing music that seemed to me simultaneously to be the most earnest possible expression of raw emotion while at the same a cuttingly ironic jab at the world. Angry, humorous, sad, tender. All of it.
This piece is a playground for different stylistic idioms, in varying degrees of straightforward representation. It was both fun and painful to write.
This piece is dedicated to a friend who has been with me for twelve years, day and night, rain or shine—the most solid rock I've ever known: my dog, Wally, who always puts me back together again whenever I fall to pieces.
I am deeply grateful to all the extraordinary ensembles forming the consortium which commissioned this work. I am so happy to have had the chance to write such an ambitious and large-scale piece for wind ensemble.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Wind Symphony (Kenneth Thompson, conductor) - 13 October 2022
- Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Wind Symphony (Bruce Moss, conductor) - 20 September 2022
- University of South Carolina (Columbia) Wind Ensemble (Cormac Cannon, conductor) - 13 April 2022 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Resources
- University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble concert program, 13 April 2022