To the Wind
The title of this work is correctly written with ellipsis: ...to the Wind.
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 5:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Longitude 91 Publications / Aaron Perrine
Cost: Score and Parts - $115.00 | Score Only - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
Clarinet I-II
Bass Clarinet
Alto Sax I-II
Tenor Sax I-II
Baritone Sax
Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V-VI-VII, including:
- Carriage Bolt Chimes*
- Chimes
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-hat
- Key Chimes*
- Maracas
- Marimba
- Ribbon Crasher
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Sound Tube
- Suspended Cymbal
- Vibraphone
*Carriage bolt chimes and key chimes are homemade instruments, similar in effect to wind chimes.
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ideas for new works often present themselves in unusual ways. Because this piece was commissioned in honor of a 50th annual band festival, I decided to try to make a connection between the beginning of the band festival to the present. My grandfather was a band director in the 1960s, so I began the process of searching for connections to the past by speaking with him. We discussed some of the music that he programmed with his groups during this time (including many of his favorite Karl King marches), but none of this discussion added any clarity to the task at hand. Perhaps sensing my frustration, my grandfather advised, “Throw caution to the wind and write the piece!” As it turns out, the phrase, “to the wind,” stuck!
…to the Wind was commissioned by the Detroit Lakes Band Program in honor of their 50th annual All-City Band Festival.
-Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Kansas (Lawrence) University Band (Sharon Toulouse, conductor) – 20 Novemnber 2023
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) North Star Band (J. Nick Smith, conductor) – 27 February 2020
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Clinic Honor Band III (Troy Bennefield, conductor) – 2 February 2020
- Texas Woman's University (Denton) Wind Symphony (Carter Biggers, conductor) – 15 November 2019
- Ohio University (Athens) Symphonic Band (Richard Suk, conductor) – 6 December 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Life Painting (Adaptable Band) (2019/2020)
- Tears of St. Lawrence (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
All Wind Works
- All the Things I'm Not (2019)
- Among the Aspens (2022)
- And Sings the Tune Without the Words (2020)
- April (2008)
- Beneath a Canvas of Green (2012/2018)
- Bluebonnet Drift (2021)
- Child Moon (2017)
- Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- A Dream of Trees (2019)
- Drifting (2022)
- Fever Flash
- Floral Larceny (2018)
- Forever Radiant (2019)
- A Glimpse of the Eternal (2016)
- I was Just Looking at the World (2011)
- In the Open Air, in the Silent Lines (2018)
- In This Moment (2001/2011)
- Inner Sanctum (2010)
- Iris (2016)
- It Has to Be Beautiful (2018)
- Life Painting (2019)
- Life Painting (Adaptable Band) (2019/2020)
- The Long Light After Time (2022)
- Move
- Only Light (2014)
- Pale Blue on Deep (2011)
- Snap
- Shimmer
- Stained with Light
- Tears of St Lawrence (2014)
- Tears of St. Lawrence (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
- Temperance (2016)
- ...to the wind (2014)
- Traces of Amber Sky (2018)
- Vignettes of Mount Vernon (2022)