Kaboom!
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $58.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Mark Tree
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This exciting composition intends to "fascinate, enervate and captivate" – drawing listeners to the very end and then … KABOOM!"
- Program Note from The Instrumentalist
Two notes, then two more and the fuse is lit! A counterstatement follows, and then another. Ideas develop and unravel - percussion punctuates, brass recapitulates, woodwinds decorate... as the fuse burns. The music grows as it progresses, fascinating and captivating, drawing the listener in to the decisive and explosive finale!
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Orillia Secondary School Music Department (Orillia, Canada) in celebration of the opening of their new school in 2016. Laura Lee Matthie & Robin Watson, directors.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
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Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 72/9 (April 2018), p. 32.
- Perusal score
- Vince Gassi website Accessed 15 August 2019