Poetic Justice
|
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. |
General Info
Year: 2025
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Movements
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Masque of the Red Death
Instrumentation
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
"Nervous … very very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say I am mad?”
Thus, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart attempts to convince the reader of his sanity while describing in gruesome detail the murder he has committed. Poe’s classic horror story seems an unlikely inspiration for a musical piece, but it, along with two other tales by the author, was the stimulus for a work commissioned by a member of the Concord Band and created by composer/arranger Roger Cichy.
Each of the three movements of the piece, titled POEtic Justice, interprets the short story it represents, says Cichy. The music relies on “a lot of dissonance and tension” to convey the macabre tone of the tales.
- Program Note excerpted from Laurie O'Neill
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Concord (Mass.) Band (Roger Cichy, conductor) - 25 October 2025 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Amazing Grace (as arranger) (1779/2014)
- American Band Salute (2009?)
- and make a joyous sound
- Breakthrough (1994/2000)
- Bugs (2000)
- Centennial Fanfare (1990)
- Colours (1997)
- Divertimento for Winds and Percussion (1994)
- El Caballero (2000)
- Emblazoned Joy (2019/2021)
- Fanfare for a Festive Day (1996)
- Festival!
- First Flights
- Flowing Pens from Concord (2013)
- For Purple Mountain Majesties (2005)
- Galilean Moons (1996)
- Geometric Dances (2007)
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (as arranger) (2022)
- The Golden Baton March
- Hats Off (2016)
- In Exuberant Celebration (2009)
- Interpretations
- Le fée printemps (2025)
- Maestro
- New Millennium, Different World, New Beginnings (2004)
- Pandemonium (2006)
- POEtic Justice (2025)
- Quartets (2006/2012)
- Rachmaninoff Prelude (as arranger)
- Silhouette
- Sounds, Sketches, and Ideas (2002)
- T. Rex
- We Walked with Heads Held High (2006)
- Westminster Carol (1991)
- Windsicle (2006)
- Wisconsin Soundscapes
- Wizards
Resources
- O'Neill, Laurie. " Poe’s horror stories take musical flight at band’s fall concert." The Concord Bridge, 23 October 2025. Accessed 24 october 2025
- Roger Cichy website. Accessed 24 October 2025