Street Flair
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Markowski Creative
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $175.00; | Score Only (print) - $30.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- C Piccolo
- Flute I-II
- Oboe I-II
- Bassoon I-II
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Saxophone
- 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-III
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- *Bass Drum (concert)
- *Chimes
- *Drum (low or medium)
- *Drum Set, including:
- **Kick Drum
- **Low Tom
- **Snare Drum
- **High Hat
- **Suspended Cymbal
- *High Tom
- *Low Tom
- *Samba Whistle
- *Shakers
- *Suspended Cymbal
- *Tambourine
- *Triangle
- *Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
When I was first asked to write a piece for the ISO Symphonic Band at the Third Street Music School — an organization that has been bringing music and other performing arts to the Lower East Side of Manhattan for over 125 years! — the only thing that was asked of me was to write something that reflected the mission of the school by celebrating the idea of “community.” As I began to write and find my way into the piece, I kept coming back to the idea of parades and carnivals and street festivals. It just happened to be a coincidence that the piece premiered in the middle of June — a historically festive month for New Yorkers. In fact, the Brooklyn Pride Parade was the night before, the Puerto Rican Day Parade kicked off just hours before the concert began across town, and the following weekend was the uniquely New Yorkian Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
I think any time we gather in our communities like this to show the world “who we are” in such dazzling and spectacular ways is always worth celebrating. If you can imagine all of these different festivities coming together to march down the same street at the same time to form one enormous super-parade, that’s the vibe I really hoped to capture.
Street Flair premiered on June 12, 2022 at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts performed by the ISO Symphonic Band under the direction of Paul Corn.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Columbia Summer Winds (New York, N.Y.) – August 2023
- ISO at Third Street Symphonic Band (Paul Corn, conductor) – 12 June 2022 (Lincoln Center, N.Y.) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Drawing Mars (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Finding the Words: ii. Undefined (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
All Wind Works
- As Midnight on a Moonless Night (2011)
- Blue Ambience (2003)
- Brooklyn Air (2016)
- Camerado (2013)
- The Cave You Fear (2014)
- City Trees (2012)
- Desert Sage (2022)
- Drawing Mars (2019)
- Drawing Mars (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Dreamland (2011)
- Elixir (2012)
- Embers (2015)
- Famishius Fantasticus (2012)
- Finding the Words
- Finding the Words: ii. Undefined (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Forever Summer (2016)
- Instinctive Travels (2009)
- JoyRiDE (2005/2014)
- Machiavelli's Conscience (2017)
- Monk by the Sea (2015)
- Reckoning (2017)
- Remember the Molecules (2013)
- Saturn Returns (2014)
- Shadow Rituals (2006)
- Shine (2010)
- Street Flair (2022)
- Summoning Graces (2019)
- Sunny-Side Up (2018)
- Tidal Forces (2010)
- The Tonic of Wildness (2017)
- Turkey in the Straw (2008)
- Unfamiliar Territory (2013)
- Walden (2011)
- You Are Cordially Invited (2016)
Resources
- Michael Markowski website Accessed 24 August 2023
- Perusal score