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Loss Verses
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 9:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Meechan Music
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $250.00 | Score Only (digital) - $50.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Flugelhorn
Flute I-II
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 I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Piano
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbal
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Loss is so very, very, hard. Nothing can prepare you for it, for the devastating pain it causes; or for the moments it catches you so unaware, where seemingly from nowhere it bites. And losing a friend when you are not able to say goodbye properly, when you are not able to gather with other friends and loved ones to share stories, share grief, find comfort -- is so very, very, tough. The pain is like being in a labyrinth; unsure of how I got in, and not knowing a way out. Each way you turn it is different, and for sure some directions are better than others, but most bring you back into the labyrinth. Ultimately there are no shortcuts -- loss is so, very, very hard.
Writing music at a time of loss, and this specific time and this specific loss is the same. Loss Verses is an expression of that labyrinth -- there are no rousing chorus, but instead echoes, moments, reflections, the new and the old, in the shape of verses, each so very, very, painful to write. Loss Verses -- in memory of a friend.
- Program Note from Illinois State University Wind Symphony concert program, 15 November 2021
In memory of a friend.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Kansas State University (Manhattan) Wind Ensemble (Frank Tracz, conductor; John Kilgore, trumpet) - 8 March 2023
- California State University, Long Beach, Wind Symphony (Jermie Arnold, conductor; Rob Frear, flugelhorn) - 17 November 2022
- Illinois State University (Normal) Wind Symphony (Anthony Marinello, III, conductor; Anne McNamara, flugelhorn) - 15 November 2021
- Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion) Wind Ensemble (Michael Flanagin, conductor; Joshua Ganger, flugelhorn) - 12 April 2021 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Forgotten Children (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Letters from Home (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2014/2020)
- Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Lullaby. See also: Suite Treats
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Song of Hope (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Taking the Fifth (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Zenith (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Apex
- Athabasca (2018)
- Autumn Falling
- Bang 2 (2007)
- Carnival (2006)
- Chorales (on Brecht) (2017)
- Close to the Sun (2018)
- Crazy Diamonds Shining
- Devil's Duel
- Dreams Unseen (2021)
- Each Life Converges (2022)
- Episodes and Echoes
- Eternal Light (2008)
- Fanfare for a Festival (Meechan)
- Forgotten Children (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Fragile Oasis (2013/14)
- ISS Flyover (2012)
- Korn Symphony (2015)
- Lament (from Macbeth) (2008/2014)
- Land of the Living Skies (2018)
- let this place (2019)
- Letters for Home (2014)
- Letters from Home (arr. Ambrose) (2014/2020)
- Lift Off (2006)
- Loss Verses (2021)
- Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Lullaby. See also: Suite Treats
- Macbeth (Meechan)
- Machines (2020)
- Match Day (2006)
- Origins (2012)
- Perpetua (2019)
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Renaissance of Wonder (2016)
- Shine (2011)
- Soliloquies from a Quiet Place (2019)
- Song of Hope (with trumpet solo) (2013/2015)
- Song of Hope (band) (2013/2015)
- Song of Hope (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Soul Divine (2017)
- Taking the Fifth (2020/2021)
- Taking the Fifth (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- These Mist Covered Mountains
- Three Stories, Three Worlds (2004)
- Through Clouds and Sunshine (2021)
- Velvet Blue (2013)
- Waves Toward the Pebbled Shore (2018)
- Zenith (Adaptable Band) (2020)
Resources
- Pete Meechan, personal correspondence, August 2022
- Pete Meechan website Accessed 13 April 2021