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Open Space
Contents
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 9:15
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $100.00 | Score Only - $15.00
Movements
1. Launch
2. Floating, Yet Falling
3. Spacewalk - 3:15
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Bb Contrabass Clarinet
Eb Alto Saxophone I-II
Bb Tenor Saxophone
Eb Baritone Saxophone
Bb Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium (Bass Clef & Treble Clef)
Tuba
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Bells
- Chimes
- China Cymbals
- Marimba
- Sandpaper Blocks
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Experience the International Space Station through the power of music. This epic three-movement work musically depicts several astronauts' first-hand accounts of launch, first experiences of floating, and a breathtaking spacewalk. Movements include Launch; Floating, yet Falling; and Spacewalk.
-Program Note by publisher
Balmages said this about Open Space:
This piece is easily one of the most intriguing pieces I have written in my career as a composer. It is inspired by a friend of mine, G. Reid Wiseman, who is an astronaut with NASA. Wiseman spent two years preparing to launch and spent six months on the International Space Station, where he actually was when Open Space was premiered.
The piece is broken into three movements, each dealing with a specific aspect of his mission. The third movement, Spacewalk, was inspired by the following comment: 'If I get to do a spacewalk, that will certainly be the absolute highlight of the mission -- the scariest, most intense, and probably the most rewarding. And the view when outside in a spacesuit ... the only thing between you and Earth is a two-mm thick piece of glass. Wow.'
Open Space was commissioned by the American School Band Directors Association and was primered at the 60th ASBDA National Conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Program Note by the Utah Wind Symphony
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Audio Links
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Seacoast Wind Ensemble (Kittery, Maine) (Mark Stickney, conductor) - 27 May 2018
- Troy (Ala.) University Concert Band (Rad Bolt, conductor) - 30 April 2018
- University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Jack Snyder Concert Band (Douglas Bush, conductor) – 26 April 2018
- Utah (Salt Lake City) Wind Symphony (Craig Kirschoff, conductor) - 20 December 2014 (2014 Midwest Clinic)
- Niu Valley Middle School (Honolulu, Hawaii) Concert Band (Brian Balmages, conductor) - October 2014
Works for Winds by this Composer
- African Journey (2001)
- Always United, Forever Strong (2013)
- American Big Top (2018)
- Among the Clouds (2004)
- Apollo (2008)
- Arabian Dances (2009)
- The Awakening
- Backstage Pass (2015)
- Beyond the Summit (2004)
- Blue Ridge Reel (2013)
- Bright Morning Stars
- Bringer of War (2017)
- Call of the Wild (2013)
- Camptown Variations
- Chant and Savage Dance
- Chesapeake Serenade
- Comet Ride
- Conquest
- Courtly Dance and Procession
- Dragonfly
- Eagles Among Us (2017)
- Elements (2010)
- Enchantment (2014)
- Endless Rainbows (2013)
- Escapades
- Etowah
- Evocatio (2014)
- Falcon Fanfare (2012)
- Fanfare Canzonique (2003)
- Fanfare on a Theme of Imagination (2015)
- A Festive Fanfare (2017)
- A Festive Finale (2019)
- Fiesta de los Toros (2017)
- Flight
- Flight of the Griffin
- Forever... (2014)
- Fusion (2007)
- Gettysburg (A Civil War Portrait)
- Grace (2016)
- Groove Music (2013)
- Haunted Clocks (2014)
- A Hero's Destiny
- Homage to Bharat (2018)
- A House Divided (2013)
- Hypnotic Fireflies (2013)
- Images of Ireland
- Incantation and Ritual
- In Nature's Glory
- Industrial Loops (2017)
- Infinite Hope (2018)
- Instant Christmas Spirit
- Into the Arctic (2015)
- Invictus
- Jingle Bell Tones
- Journey By Night
- Journey for a Soldier (2010)
- Joy in All Things (2012)
- Joy of Life (2015)
- Jungle Dance (2011)
- Kilauea (The Volcano's Fury)
- Kindred Spirits (2009)
- Legacy (Processional for Band)
- Legend
- Legend of the Drop Bear (2016)
- A Light at the End of Forever (2016)
- Loudoun Praises
- Lullaby to the Moon (2017)
- Majestica
- Marche Diabolique (2014)
- Metal (2013)
- Metamorphic Dances (2019)
- Midnight on Main Street (2009)
- Midnight Suite
- Miramar Fanfare
- Moscow, 1941 (2006)
- Motion (2006)
- Nevermore (2011)
- Not Afraid to Dream (2006)
- O Mio Babbino Caro
- Of Emperors and Chariots
- Olympia
- Open Space (2014)
- Parade of the Jesters
- Pele (2004)
- Phasing Thunder (2014)
- Primal Dances (2018)
- Proclamation
- Proudly We Hail
- Raging Machines
- Rain (2008)
- Renaissance Reimagined (2017)
- Reverberations (2009)
- Rhythms and Riffs
- Rippling Watercolors (2015)
- Rite of Passage (2000)
- Rocky Mountain Romp
- Sapier's Story
- Shadow Waltzes (2016)
- Shadows Unleashed (2013)
- Shenandoah Triptych
- Shrine of the Fallen (2016)
- Silence Overwhelmed (2010)
- Smithsonian Suite
- A Solitary Wish (2017/2018)
- Sound Prisms (2002)
- Sparks (2007)
- Spirit of the Stallion (2016)
- Spontaneous Beings (2017)
- Star Above, Shine Brightly (2001)
- Star-Spangled Banner, The (arr Balmages) (as arranger) (1814/2014)
- Starscapes (2007)
- Summer Dances (2000)
- Summer Resounding!
- Summit City
- Sun Cycles (2012)
- Swirling Prisms
- Symphonic Episodes
- Symphony No. 1 for Brass
- Synthesis (2016)
- Temple of the Murals (2011)
- That Which Binds Us (2015)
- Three Celtic Dances (2008)
- Through Courageous Eyes
- Trust in Angels (2017)
- Twittering Machine (2017)
- A View of the World
- Waves
- When Spirits Soar (2006)
- Whispering Winds
- Winged Victory (2007)
- Winter Dances
- Within the Castle Walls (2012)
References
None discovered thus far.
