Windborne

Kevin Day

This article is a stub. If you can help add information to it,
please join the WRP and visit the FAQ (left sidebar) for information.

Subtitle: Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble

General Info

Year: 2022
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Movements

1. Aero-Schematics
2. Cloud Dreams
3. Flying machine

Instrumentation

(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Windborne: Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble is my fifth concerto commission, this time in collaboration with my dear friend and soloist Steven Cohen, whom I am greatly thankful for in supporting this project.

This three-movement work is inspired by the life of a family member of mine named Oscar Desper Jr., my great uncle on my mother’s side. I never got the chance to meet him but heard many stories of him as a kid from my mother about his work in aeronautical engineering and the Rockwell International Space Shuttle Program. Before I chose my path to go into music for college, I originally wanted to be an aeronautical engineer too, with dreams of wanting to fly and explore the unknown.

With this context in mind, the three movements, Aero-Schematics, Cloud Dreams, and Flying Machine explore this aeronautical process of designing an aircraft and witnessing that design come to life. The “flying” concept for the concerto started by replaying experiences in my head hearing horns. I’ve always loved the epic and beautiful sound of the instrument, as well as its ability make the listener feel like they are soaring.

-Program Note by composer

It has different qualities like a fighter jet, zooming around, and then the second movement is very floaty and ethereal and gentle, and then you come rip-roaring out through the end.

- Program Note by Carolyn Barber

Media

Audio: Reference recording. MIDI realization

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor; Steven Cohen, horn) – 8 April 2022 (CBDNA 2022 North Central Conference, Madison, Wisc.) *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)

All Wind Works

All the Day Long (2017)
Christmas in Spain (2016)
Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble (2018)
Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2021)
Dancing Fire (2016)
Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
Deep Blue (2022)
Dual Strides (2022)
Ecstatic Samba (arr. Trentadue) (2017/2022)
Ember Skies (2021)
Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
enter data sequence (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
Fantasia for Alto Sax and Marimba (2016)
Fireworks (2015)
Galactic Voyage (2018)
Ignition (2018/2020)
Havana (2018)
Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
A Hymn for Peace (2017)
A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
J.R. (2017)
Lightning Round (2022)
Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
Metallic Figures
More than Words... (2020)
Night Sketches I (2016)
Nitrous (2020)
On Shores of Endless Sea (2022)
Pyrotechnics (2019)
Requiem for the Unarmed (2020/2022)
River Memoria (2022)
Rocketship! (2017)
Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
Shimmering Sunshine (2019). See also: Of Day and Night
A Song for Tomorrow (2019)
Summit (2020)
Tango Oscuro (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
Windborne (2022)

Resources

Kevin Day website Accessed 29 March 2022
"Wind Ensemble to premiere ‘Windborne’ concerto on March 30." Nebraska Today, 17 March 2022. Web. Accessed 29 March 2022