Winds of Change (Standridge)

Randall Standridge

Randall Standridge

General Info

Year: 2016
Duration: c. 5:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00; (digital) - $85.00   |   Score Only (print) - $11.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
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
Synthesizer
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• China Cymbals
• Crotales
• Finger Cymbals
• Hi-Hat
• Log Drum (optional Woodblocks)
• Sleigh Bells
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Crash Cymbal
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tam-Tam
• Triangle
• Vibraphone
• Wind Chimes

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

In recent years, Oklahoma has seen a great increase in the development of wind energy. This development in sustainable energy sources and the winds that flow across the great state serve as the inspiration for this composition. The piece begins by depicting the great open spaces that stretch for miles across the Oklahoma landscape. Small gusts of wind (represented by scalar and arpeggiated passages in the mallets and woodwinds) dance across the landscape. The piece picks up pace as the wind races across the land, turning the turbines and charging towards the future.

Winds of Change was commissioned by the Southwestern Oklahoma Band Director's Association.

- Program Note from score

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Alabama: Class BB

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Beaver County Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Ambridge, Penn.) (Kevin Newton, conductor) – 27 March 2019
• Poland (Ohio) Seminary High School Wind Ensemble (Jeff Hvizdos, conductor) – 27 February 2018
• Southwest Oklahoma Band Directors Association Symphonic Honor Band – February 2016 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
• Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
• Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)

All Wind Works

• Adrenaline Engines (2010)
• Afterburn (2009)
• Aggressivo (2013)
• Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
• Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Angelic Celebrations (2014)
• Argentum (2015)
• Armory (2016)
• Art(isms) I: Pointallism
• Art(isms) II: Surrealism
• Art(isms) III: Abstract Expressionism
• Battlesong
• Bazaar (2017)
• Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Boom Boom Galop (2017)
• Brave Spirit (2015)
• Brighton Camp March (2012)
• Buffalo Island March
• Celebration (2016)
• Celebration Tribalesque (2011)
• Celebrations for Christmas (as arranger) (2020)
• A Christmas Bell Carol (2018)
• A Christmas Fanfare
• A Christmas Flourish (2017)
• A Christmas Tale (2016)
• Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (2014)
• Companion of My Voice (2015)
• Danse Bohemien (2010)
• Danse Carnivale (2013)
• Dark Ride (2018)
• Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Darklands Symphony
  • Darklands March (2014)
  • Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
  • Darklands Legends (2017)
  • DarkHeart (2016)
• Daybreak March
• Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• El Zorro Rojo (2019)
• Extremis (2015)
• A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Fields of Clover
• Folk Suite for Beginning Band
• Four (2017)
• Frogs (2018)
• Gadget (2012)
• Galactic Fanfare (2018)
• Gently Blows the Summer Wind (2008)
• Gestures (2019)
• Grace
• Half-Past One
• Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Her Majesty's Brigade
• High Voltage (2017)
• Holiday Galop, A (as arranger) (2013)
• Imaginarium (2015)
• In Late November
• In Simple Faith (as arranger) (2018)
• In the Paths of Truth and Grace (2015)
• In These Last Days of Autumn (2016)
• Iron and Ice (2017)
• IronHeart (2014)
• Kinetic Dances (2015)
• Life's Railway (2018)
• Little Suite for Band (2014)
• Lullabye (Waltz for Band)
• Lux Spiritus (2018)
• Metalheads (2016)
• Metrodance (2012)
• Morpheus (2016)
• New Era Fanfare (2013)
• The Nine (2018)
• Ode to Joy
• On a Catalonian Carol (as arranger) (2016)
• Pandora
• Portent
• A Prayer Before Nightfall
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Rage
• Ridge Spirit Fanfare
• A Rollicking Hannukah (2018)
• Rowan Tree, The (as arranger) (2010)
• Ruckus (2014)
• Skygazer Fanfare (2015)
• Snake Charmer (2009)
• Snow Angels (2014/2017)
• Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Stonewall: 1969 (2019)
• Steel (2011)
• Still, Still, Still (as arranger) (2011)
• Tanchōzuru (2016)
• That Old Hound Dog Rag (2009)
• To Horizons Unseen (2019)
• Towercrest March
• Undecim (2015)
• Under the Cherry Blossoms (2018)
• Union Street March
• Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Victory Parade March
• When the Spring Rain Begins to Fall (2013)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Winds of Change (2016)
• The Witching Hour (2014)
• With Every Winter's Breath (2012)
• Wolverine Summer (2018)
• A Yuletide Festival
• Zooveniers

Resources

• "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 71/8 (March, 2017), p. 30.
• Perusal score
• Randall Standridge website Accessed 8 August 2017