Tuba Concerto (Grantham)
General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 19:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Piquant Press
Cost: Score and Parts - rental | Score Only - $50.00
Movements
1. Fiery and Bold - 6:30
2. Languid and Expressive - 5:50
3. Boiterous! Tiny Parham in Memoriam - 6:45
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Slap Stick
- Suspended cymbal
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
My Tuba Concerto — for Tuba Solo, Orchestral Winds, Percussion and Piano — is in three movements. The first movement, marked "Fiery and bold," is a virtuosic workout featuring much interplay between the soloist and percussion, particularly the timpani. The second movement is lyric and expressive. Formally, it is a kind of continuous development as new material is added to older material without ever really replacing it, and all of the elements combine and interact throughout the entire movement.
The third movement is in a much more popular and jazzy vein, and is dedicated to the memory of Tiny Parham, a jazz musician who flourished in Chicago in the 192Os and 193Os, and was a composer whose music and scoring I particularly admire.
- Program note by composer
Donald Grantham’s three movement, twenty-three minute Tuba Concerto was completed in 2012 for solo tuba, orchestral winds, percussion, and piano. The first movement, subtitled Fiery and Bold, features a virtuosic solo tuba voice and frequent musical dialogue between the soloist and percussion section (particularly timpani). The Tuba Concerto was commissioned in 2012 by a consortium of scholastic entities, including the Marcus Wind Symphony. The work was premiered by the University of Texas at Austin Wind Symphony on March 27, 2012, under the baton of Dr. Robert Carnochan and featuring UT faculty soloist Charles Villarrubia on tuba.
- Program note by Rebecca Loshelder for the Marcus High School Wind Symphony concert program, 22 December 2012
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Owasso High School Wind Ensemble (W. Dale Warren, conductor; Charles Villarrubia, tuba)
- Audio CD: Marcus High School Wind Symphony (Amanda Drinkwater, conductor; Gene Pokorny, Tuba)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Ithaca (N.Y.) College Wind Symphony (Christopher Hughes, conductor) – 3 May 2019
- Arkansas Tech University (Russellville) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Daniel A. Belongia, conductor; Clayton Maddox , tuba) – 18 November 2018
- United States Army Band (Ft. Myer, Va.) (Timothy J. Holton, conductor; Charles Villarubia, tuba) – 4 February 2017
- University of Miami (Fla.) Frost Wind Ensemble (Robert Carnochan, conductor; Aaron Tindall, tuba)) – 2 November 2015
- Marcus High School (Tx.) Wind Symphony (Amanda Drinkwater, conductor; Gene Pokorny, tuba) – 22 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)
- Owasso (Okla.) High School Wind Ensemble (W. Dale Warren, conductor; Charles Villarrubia, tuba) – 20 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)
- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Symphony (Robert M. Carnochan, conductor; Charles Villarrubia, tuba) – 30 March 2012 (CBDNA 2012 Southwestern Division Conference, Austin, Tx.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- After Hafiz (2016)
- Amber Sky
- Baron Cimetiere's Mambo (2004)
- Baron Piquant on Pointe (2011)
- Baron La Croix's Shuffle (2007)
- Baron Samedi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) (2005)
- Bum's Rush (1994)
- Chant and Hymn for Our Lady
- Circa 1600 (2018)
- Cloudless Day, Bitter Sky (2002)
- "Come Memory..." (2002)
- Concerto in One Movement for Bass Trombone (1979)
- Court Music (2005)
- Don't You See? (2001)
- Effulgent Light (2017)
- Exhilaration and Cry (2008)
- Fantasy on "In Dulci Jubilo" (2015)
- Fantasy on "La Golondrina" (2003)
- Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song (1998)
- Fantasy Variations (1927/1998)
- Farewell to Gray (2001)
- Fayetteville Bop (2002)
- From "An Alabama Songbook" (2007)
- Honey in the Rock (2008)
- JS Dances (2003)
- J'ai été au bal (1999)
- Kentucky Harmony (2000)
- Let Evening Come (Grantham) (2014)
- Lone Star Twister (2008)
- Music for the Blanton (2006)
- Northern Celebration (2001)
- Phantasticke Spirites (2002)
- Shenandoah (2017)
- Southern Harmony (1998)
- Wondrous Love (2008)
- Sol y Sombra (2014)
- Spangled Heavens (2010)
- Starry Crown (2007)
- Symphony for Winds and Percussion (2009)
- Stomp (Grantham) (2009)
- Summer of 2008 (2008)
- Thunderbird
- Trumpet Gloria (2006)
- Tuba Concerto (Grantham) (2012)
- An Uneasy Mrch
- Variations on an American Cavalry Song (2001)
- What Comes Around... (2017)
- A Winter Sky (2022)