Sprouts

Fraser Linklater

Fraser Linklater

General Info

Year: 2019
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manitoba Band Association
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - Free

Instrumentation

Full Score
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
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Orchestra Bells
• Shaker
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Triangle
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Sprouts was written for our grandchildren. It makes reference to the folk songs Early One Morning and This Old Man. It also begins and ends with the “secret whistle” that our family uses to contact each other!

Sprouts was awarded the 2020 Howard Cable Memorial Prize by the Canadian Band Association.

- Program Note by composer

Awards

• Howard Cable Memorial Prize, 2020, winner

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Central Memorial High School (Calgary, Alb., Can.) Concert Band

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Affirmation Spring (as arranger)
• All Around the Circle (as arranger)
• Always
• Bayreuth Festspiel
• Bird in Flight
• Bridge of Sighs
• A Child's Garden of Verses
• Child's Play (2021)
• Coming Unraveled
• Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2022)
• Danse! (as arranger)
• East Coast Girl (as arranger)
• En Roulant! (as arranger)
• Eternal Trumpet
• Fantastic!
• Frenergy (as transcriber) (1998/2011)
• Gaude! Gaude! (as arranger)
• Hallelujah!
• Hey Ho!
• Icescapes (2021)
• IFS Light
• Laudate (2021)
• A Little Night Music
• Lollipop Suite
• Magic Mountain
• Mercury Rising
• Musician Français
• A New Awakening
• Nordic Flight (2020)
• Piazza di Venice
• Prague Spring
• Prairie Hymn
• Prairie Spring
• Quebec Meets Liverpool
• Russian Rhapsody
• Russian Winter
• Samurai Cowboys
• Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 46 (as arranger) (1878/)
• Soviet Circus
• Sprouts
• T-Rex
• Variations Pathétique
• Vienna 1900
• Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare (as transcriber) (1924/)
• What was the Question?
• Wind from the East
• Wind Rites
• Wind Symphonies

Resources

None discovered thus far.