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Postcard from Pittsburgh
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Contents
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts - $65.00 | Score Only - $7.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto 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
Trombone I-II
Euphonium (Bass Clef & Treble Clef)
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(percussion detail needed)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This well-conceived musical postcard conveys the sights and sounds of the beautiful, artistic, and historic Pennsylvania city. An opening section that includes a metallic Steel City theme is intended to portray the city’s industrial heritage through the use of deliberate and intense repeated rhythmic patterns and powerful chords, This section builds to a slower, contrasting section that features a majestic City of Bridges theme that celebrates the grandeur of the city, its three rivers, and numerous bridges through soaring lines and beautiful harmonies. These themes then develop and intertwine to create the driving City of Champions section that moves to the finale — a powerful section featuring ascending chords that represent the breathtaking ride up the 800-foot Duquesne Incline, ultimately bringing the work to a dramatic conclusion.
-Program Note from The Instrumentalist
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
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
All Wind Works
- Cathedral Grove
- Codebreaker
- Continuum (2011)
- December
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (2016)
- Eagle Song (as arranger) (2018)
- Echo Lake
- Echoes of the Silent (2018)
- Excerpts from "The Rite of Spring" (as arranger)
- Fantasy on the Huron Carol
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- Free Running (2012)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
- Hymn to Freedom (as arranger) (1962/2017)
- I Am the Doctor (as arranger)
- Jitterbug! (2018)
- LOL (2016)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Pacifica (Buckley)
- Portraits of the North
- Arctic Fire (2014)
- Land of the Midnight Sun
- Iditarod (2013)
- Postcard from England (2014)
- Postcard from Pittsburgh (2013)
- Prestidigitation (2016)
- Procession of the Sorcerers
- ReBoot
- Red Sky
- Rock It Science
- The Seas of the Moon
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Thunderbird
- Undercurrents (2016)
- Walking to the Sky (2016)
- Windjammer (2011)
References
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 69/8 (March 2015), p. 32.
- Buckley, R. (2013). Postcard from Pittsburgh [score]. Musicworks: Milwaukee, Wisc.
