JoyRiDE (Markowski)

From Wind Repertory Project
Michael Markowski

Michael Markowski


General Info

Year: 2005 / 2014
Duration: c. 2:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Markowski Creative
Cost: Score and Parts - $145.00   |   Score Only - $35.00


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
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-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V-VI, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Snare Drum
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Glockenspiel
  • Hi-Hat
  • Marimba
  • Mark Tree
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Suspended China Cymbal
  • Tam-Tam
  • Tambourine
  • Triangle
  • Vibraphone
  • Wood Block
  • Xylophone


Errata

The following errors are in the parts and score:

  • B-flat Clarinet II: m. 6 and m. 8 should be the same as m. 5 and m. 7
  • B-flat Trumpet II, m. 10: eighth note on the and-of-2 should tie over to beat 3
  • Trombone I-II-III, Euphonium, m. 15: accents on beat 2 should be on the and-of-2 to match trumpet accents


Program Notes

joyRiDE drew inspiration from an earlier period in my life. Nearly ten years ago, in the summer of 2005, I was on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City playing alto saxophone as a senior in my high school band. When my band director, Jon Gomez, first received word that our high school music department was selected to perform in New York, he asked me if I'd like to write something to open the concert and commemorate the trip —- something that was bursting with joy. "Maybe," he suggested, "it would be cool to take something more traditional, like Beethoven's Ode to Joy, and blend it with something more modern, like John Adams." The idea was so simple and so astounding that the assignment excited me immediately -- it excited me so much that within ten days, I had completed the first complete draft of joyRiDE, a two-and-a-half-minute concert opener that borrows Beethoven's infamous melody and dresses it in a tie-dye blazer of rhythm and texture that nod humbly to John Adams's Short Ride on a Fast Machine.

- Program Note from Composer


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State Ratings

  • Texas: IV. Complete


Performances

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  • Kennesaw (Ga.) State University Wind Ensemble (David Kehler, conductor) - 2 February 2024
  • California State University Northridge Wind Ensemble (Lawrence Stoffel, conductor) - 28 February 2023
  • Baylor University (Waco, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Isaiah Odajima, conductor) - 15 September 2022
  • University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Symphonic Band (John Leonard, conductor) – 19 October 2021
  • McClellan College (Waco, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Jon Conrad, conductor) - 2 March 2021
  • East Texas Baptist University (Marshall, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Nathan G. Phillips, conductor) - 2 October 2020
  • West Virginia University (Morgantown) Wind Symphony (Scott C. Tobias, conductor) – 9 March 2020
  • Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.) Symphonic Band (Matthew Arau, conductor) – 7 March 2020
  • State University of New York, Fredonia, Concert Band (Ray Stewart, conductor) – 21 November 2019
  • Westchester (N.Y.) Symphonic Winds (Curt Ebersole, conductor) – 10 November 2019
  • University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Belton, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Nils Landsberg, conductor) -1 October 2019
  • NorthWinds Symphonic Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (John Bell, conductor) - 5 May 2019
  • Metropolitan Wind Symphony (Lexington, Mass). (Louis J. Buckley, conductor) – 3 March 2019
  • Tallahassee (Fla.) Winds (Patrick Dunnigan, conductor) – 12 February 2019
  • Lone Star Wind Orchestra (Dallas, TX) (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) – 27 January 2019
  • Ronald Reagan High School (San Antonio, Tex.) Wind Ensemble (Dan Morrison, conductor) - 21 December 2018 (2018 Midwest Clinic)
  • Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.) Wind Ensemble (Jay S. Gephart, conductor) – 18 November 2018
  • University of North Texas (Denton) Symphonic Band (Dennis W. Fisher, conductor) – 26 April 2018
  • Northwest Missouri State University Wind Symphony (Jacob Jennings, conductor) – 12 April 2018
  • Los Alamos (N.M.) Community Winds (Ted Vives, conductor) – 24 February 2018
  • Western Illinois University (Macomb) Concert Band (Matt Thomas, conductor) – 9 December 2017


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