Drifting
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Subtitle: A Concerto for Euphonium
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 12:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Movements
Four
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Aaron Perrine's Euphonium Concerto Drifting is the product of a commission consortium begun in 2020. Premiered in March of 2022, the piece is inspired by the North Shore of Lake Superior and the composer's close connection to that area.
The piece is also evocative of a Mary Oliver poem by the same name, that reads:
I was enjoying everything: the rain, the path
wherever it was taking me, the earth roots
beginning to stir.
I didn't intend to start thinking about God,
it just happened.
How God, or the gods, are invisible,
quite understandable.
But holiness is visible, entirely.
It's wonderful to walk along like that,
Thought not the usual intention to reach an answer
but merely drifting.
Like clouds that only seem weightless
but of course are not.
Are really important.
I mean, terribly important.
Not decoration by any means.
By next week the violets will be blooming.
Anyway, this my delicious walk in the rain.
What was it actually about?
Think about what it is that music is trying to say.
It was something like that.
- Program Note from Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble concert program, 20 May 2022
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Atlanta (Ga.) Youth Wind Symphony (Scott Stewart, conductor; Adam Frey, euphonium) - 9 October 2022
- Northern Illinois University (DeKalb) Wind Ensemble (Thomas Bough, conductor; Vince Kenney, euphonium) – 20 May 2022
- Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) Wind Symphony (Robert Meunier, conductor; Vince Kenney, euphonium) – 27 March 2022 *Premiere Performance*
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)
- Cathedral of Fountains (2025)
- Child Moon (2017)
- Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- A Dream of Trees (2019)
- Drifting (2022)
- Earthshine
- 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
- On the Grid
- Only Light (2014)
- Pale Blue on Deep (2011)
- A Place in the Stars (2024)
- Snap
- Shimmer
- Stained with Light
- Steeplechase (2020)
- Tears of St Lawrence (2014)
- Tears of St. Lawrence (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
- Temperance (2016)
- This Is Water
- ...to the wind (2014)
- To Hope (2024)
- Traces of Amber Sky (2018)
- Under the Harvest Moon (2025)
- Vignettes of Mount Vernon (2022)
Resources
- Aaron Perrine website. Accessed 16 May 2022