Gale
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Subtitle: Rock Creek Opus. For Solo Trumpet and Wind Band.
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 6:05
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bryce Owen Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- Solo Trumpet
- 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
- Timpani
- Percussion I-VI
- (Percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece was written for and about my pal Buddy Deshler, Jupiter XO artist and trumpeter with the Dallas Brass. It's a chronology of sorts, outlining how he has progressed as an artist in my eyes, beginning with our time together at George Mason University. When we met, he was already a fantastic trumpet player and an incredibly nice guy, and he was just starting to build a portfolio career.
So Gale sort of documents that progression, starting out kind of innocent, then once it gets going, bumbling and awkward and halting, and as it moves along, it becomes more refined and cohesive. The title Gale is the most apt name I could think of to describe Buddy's fervor and determination to always be improving his craft. As such, once the tempo picks up, it never relents. Even in the flowing section before the cadenza, the tempo is simply taken at half time, which indicates a sort of respite with the knowledge that the hard work is about to pick right back up where it left off.
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by the Deep Run High School band program, Jim Pennington, director.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Florida (Gainesville) Symphonic Band (John Watkins, conductor; Ben Elgan, trumpet) - 7 April 2022
- Herndon (Va.) High School Symphonic Winds (Buddy Deshler, trumpet) – Spring 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Between Dreams and Waking (2012)
- Coração (as arranger)
- Effington
- Fake News (2017)
- Fantasy on O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
- Gale (2017)
- Hit Me (as arranger)
- The Irish Blessing (2013)
- A Patron's Memento (2015)
- Rue's Farewell
- Sanguinity (2020)
- Shift
- Tis the Season: A Christmas Medley (as arranger)
- Voyage
- Zeal (2018)
Resources
- Bryce Owen website. Accessed 15 August 2024