Lighthouse Keeps Watch, The
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 3:50
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00; (digital) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass 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 I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Marimba
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Lighthouse Keeps Watch was written about a lighthouse in South Haven, a coastal community along Lake Michigan. Originally built as a wooden structure in 1872, the structure has been lighting the coast since 1903. This community is also a favorite summer and autumn travel destination for the composer, so he felt it was fitting to write a piece that would connect the community and music through this important landmark.
Commissioned by Sarah Bopp and the Baseline Middle School Concert Band, South Haven, Michigan.
- Program Note from score
Awards
- NBA/Alfred Music Young Band Composer Contest, 2020, winner
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Wayne (Neb.) State College Symphonic Band (Josh Calkin, conductor) - 16 November 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Amalthea. See: Moons of Jupiter
- Annapurna. See: Symphony No. 1
- The Archangel Gabriel (2020)
- The Beginning of All Things (2023)
- Café Bleu (2022)
- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra (2019)
- Deliverance (2020)
- Demon Dance (2011)
- The Devil's Circus (2009)
- each moment should be lived fully (2021)
- Europa. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Gathering (2019)
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Io. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Lighthouse Keeps Watch (2020)
- The March to End All Marches (2023)
- Memories in Vivid Color (2023)
- Moons of Jupiter (2020)
- On the Precipice
- Psalm 74 (2023)
- Remember Autumn Skies
- Rise Up (2020)
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Symphony No. 2 (2021)
- Underneath the Silence (2008)
- We Are Made of Star Stuff (2022)
- West Point. See: Symphony No. 2
- When a Good Man Goes to War (2018)
Resources
- Brooke Pierson website Accessed 28 June 2020
- Perusal score