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North Bridge Portrait
General Info
Year: 2001
Duration: c. 9:40
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Curnow Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $89.00 | Score Only (print) - $18.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
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
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Finger Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Contrasting colors and stylistic shifts trace the historic events surrounding “the shot heard 'round the world” in this challenging concert band work by Stephen Bulla. A rhapsodic adventure North Bridge Portrait takes us from the merry atmosphere of the pre-revolutionary town through foreboding militant sounds. The fife-and-drum melody Washington's March leads inexorably to the historic beginning of the American colonies' struggle for freedom. Vivid images combine to make this descriptive composition a memorable experience for all.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Concord Band, Concord, Massachusetts, William G. McManus, Music Director.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Michigan: Senior High A
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Concord (Mass.) Band (James O'Dell, conductor) – 8 June 2019
- Concord (Mass.) Band (James O'Dell, conductor) – 20 October 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adirondack Festival Overture (2014)
- Andante con Moto (as arranger) (1816/2003)
- Bells of Christmas (1999)
- Blue Mountain Saga (1995)
- Bond, James Bond (as arranger)
- Cartoon Capers (as arranger) (2000)
- Celestial Suite (1989)
- Christmas Calypso (1997)
- Cole Porter Songbook (as arranger)
- Declaration for Trumpet
- Ellington! (as arranger) (2019)
- Escapades (as transcriber) (2002/2012)
- Euphonium Fantasia
- Excerpts from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (as arranger) (1978/2009)
- Fascinating Rhythm (as arranger) (1924)
- Firestorm (1992)
- Heather Ridge Sketches (2000)
- The Imperial March (as arranger) (1980/2008)
- Irish Lullaby, An
- Irish Songs, Set No 1 (as arranger)
- Irish Songs, Set No 2 (as arranger) (2004)
- Legend of Knife River (1997)
- Legends of Jazz (as arranger) (2012)
- Library of Congress March, The (as arranger)
- Mambo Greats (as arranger) (2013)
- Mancini! (as arranger) (2000?)
- March Creole (1995)
- North Bridge Portrait (2001)
- Of Ancient Dances (2015)
- Pride of a People (as arranger)
- Rhapsody for Flute (1996)
- Rhapsody for Hanukkah (1994)
- Russian Carol Variations (1999)
- The Schumann Suite (as arranger) (1997)
- Selections from "Into the Woods" (as arranger)
- Selections from "The Great Race" (as arranger)
- Selections from ''Sweeney Todd'' (as arranger) (1979/2009)
- Shipston Prelude (2000)
- Sinatra! (as arranger) (2011)
- Slavonic Fantasy (as arranger)
- Sondheim! (as arranger) (2021)
- Stephen Foster Songbook (as arranger) (1999)
- Symphonette (2003)
- Symphonic Highlights from "Frozen" (as arranger) (2013)
- Tiger Rag (as adapter)
- Tribute to Louis Armstrong (as arranger)
- Trilogy Americana (2002)
- Uncommon Valor (1995)
- Wade in the Water (as arranger) (2001)
- Winterfest (as arranger) (2002)
- Yankee Doodle (as arranger) (1845/)
Resources
- Bulla, S. (2001). North Bridge Portrait [score]. Curnow Music Press: Wilmore, Ky.
- Stephen Bulla website Accessed 12 June 2019