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Road Stories
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General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 15:50
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Lawdon Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - Rental | Score Only (print) - $65.00
Movements (may be played separately)
1. Speed Bike – 3:30
2. Winding Tree Lane – 6:40
3. Rail Lights – 5:20
Instrumentation
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Road Stories is a series of portraits of life journeys. In Speed Bike, the listener moves along in a joyful ride over sudden lifting hills and along paths that are comprised of quick twists and turns; there is a relishing of freedom and the speed of youth. Winding Tree Lanemoves at a much slower pace ... a quiet street of leafy sunlit patterns, absorbed by the traveler in slow footfalls; this is time movement in contemplative moments. Rail Lights is the visual phenomenon of being on a train, looking through windows at fast-passing lights. No picture is clear, but sometimes a space will go by where the passenger can see a larger picture than the momentary shifts of lights. The traveling that we all do while moving from one day to the next often shows us only passing glimmers, but there are those moments when a clear picture shifts into focus of a larger world.
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by The National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group. Movements may be performed individually.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Symphony (Ryan Kelly, conductor) – 6 February 2023
- Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Wind Symphony (Bruce Moss, conductor) - 28 October 2021
- Ball State University (Muncie, Ind.) Wind Ensemble (Sean Smith, conductor) – 26 October 2018
- University of Colorado Boulder Wind Symphony (Donald J. McKinney, conductor) – 20 September 2018
- 2018 Lesbian and Gay Band Association (Kansas City, Mo.) LGBA Emerald Band (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 26 May 2018
- Boston (Mass.) Conservatory Wind Ensemble (Kelly Corcoran, conductor) – 4 May 2018
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, Wind Symphony (Steven D. Davis, conductor) – 24 April 2018
- Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.) Wind Orchestra (Richard Clary, conductor) – 28 February 2018
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor) – 7 December 2016
- University of Oregon (Eugene) Wind Ensemble (Rodney Dorsey, conductor) – 22 November 2016
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory Wind Ensemble (Joseph Parisi, conductor) – 28 September 2016
- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Ensemble – 28 November 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aspire (2022)
- Blue Cathedral (tr. Nowlin) (1999/2020)
- Blue Cathedral (tr. Patterson) (1999/2015)
- Fanfare Ritmico (2002)
- Kelly's Field (2006)
- Like ClockWork
- Machine (tr. Blon) (2003/2017)
- Mysterium (2011)
- Oboe Concerto (2005/2008)
- Percussion Concerto (2005)
- Road Stories (2012)
- Rhythm Stand (2004)
- SkyLine (arr. Scott) (2002/2020)
- Soprano Sax Concerto (2005/2007)
- Spirit (2006)
- Steeley Pause (1988)
- Tenfold (2010)
- Wind Shear (2000)
Resources
- Higdon, J. (2010). Road Stories [score]. Lawdon Press: [Philadelphia, Penn.]
- Ney, A. (2014). "Jennifer Higdon – Road Stories." Prezi.com Accessed 6 September 2016