Into the Air!
General Info
Year: 1998
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $195.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II (II doubling Alto Flute)
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra-alto Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Piano
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbal
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Low Tom-tom
- Marimba
- Mark Tree (or Wind Chimes)
- Slapstick
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam (2)
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Cello
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by The United States Air Force Band, the overture Into The Air! was completed in September 1998. As I began working on this composition, I found myself often thinking about the unselfish courage exhibited by the members of the United States Air Force, as well as the absolute thrill it is to be able to fly. Hopefully this music embodies these noble qualities of character and experience.
Into The Air! received its world premiere in July 1999.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio: U.S. Air Force Band (Lowell E. Graham, conductor)
- Audio CD: U.S. Air Force Band (Lowell E. Graham, conductor) - 2008
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- West Virginia University (Morgantown) Wind Symphony (Scott C. Tobias, conductor) – 29 October 2018
- The Ohio State University (Columbus) Wind Symphony (Jeff Krubsack, conductor) – 21 April 2017
- St. Olaf Band (Northfield, Minn.) (Timothy Mahr, conductor) – 12 February 2010
- United States Air Force Band I (Washington, D.C.) (Lowell Graham, conductor) – 20 December 2000 (2000 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adoramus Te, Christe (as arranger)
- and in this dream there were eight windows... (2003)
- Appalachian Folk Dream (2016)
- Argentum (1986)
- Blue Sky Day (2006)
- Bridge Square March (2005)
- Bright Side (2015/2018)
- Carolina Folk Dream
- Climb the Castle Walls! (2011)
- Dauntless (2015)
- Daydream (1989)
- Diamond Celebration (2009)
- Dig Down Deep (2013)
- Endurance (1991)
- Etched in Stone (2018)
- Everyday Hero (2011)
- Fanfare and Grand March (1980)
- Fantasia in G (1982)
- Festivals
- Fields of Grain as Seen From a Train (2008)
- Flourish (2000)
- GF Redux: "It's Yours", from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Heroic Rhapsody (2009)
- Heroic Valor (2009)
- Hey! (2001/2005)
- Honoris Causa (2009)
- Hymn and Celebration (1994)
- Imagine, If You Will... (2013)
- Imagining Peace (2018)
- Immigrant Dreams (1992)
- Imprints
- Inaugural Dances (2006)
- Into the Air! (1998)
- Look In/Look Out (2018)
- A Mighty March (2003)
- Mountain Prayers (2006)
- Mourning Dances (2001)
- Mr. Kallman (2019)
- Noble Element (2007)
- Passages (1984)
- Pride, Promise and Progress (2009)
- A Quiet Place To Think (1999)
- Retreat, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- The Soaring Hawk (1991)
- Sol Solator (2009)
- Spirits Ablaze (2013)
- Spring Divertimento (1992)
- Suite for Band (2014)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Uncle Lumpy's Garage (2005)
- Urgent Voices (2020)
- The View from the Mountaintop (1996)
- When I Close My Eyes, I See Dancers (1997)
Resources
- Mahr, T. (2000). Into the Air! [score]. Neil A. Kjos Music Co.: San Diego, Calif.