Grade level: 3+
Duration: ~5'
Echoes From Our Past - All Parts
‘Echoes from Our Past’ reflects looking on a long, varied, and honest life lived. The piece features slow, expressive, and intense build-ups of sound, unconventional chord progressions, and requires the utmost patience, delicacy, and sensitivities to perform. Both the players and the audience are tasked with the challenge of waiting, pacing, and loving each and every note on the page. There are many moments in this piece that take unexpected turns, that create beautiful soundscapes and feelings throughout.
2 Flutes
2 Oboes
English Horn (optional - all crucial notes cued in alto sax)
2 Bassoons Contrabassoon (optional - all crucial notes cued in tuba) 3 Bb Clarinets
Bb Bass Clarinet Bb or Eb Contrabass Clarinet (optional - all crucial notes cued in tuba)
2 Eb Alto Saxophones
Bb Tenor Saxophone
Eb Baritone Saxophone
3 Bb Trumpets
4 Horns in F
3 Tenor Trombones
Euphonium
Tuba
Double Bass
Timpani (Low to high: G, C, D, E)
Percussion 1: Wind Chimes, Crash Cymbals, Suspended Cymbals
Percussion 2: Suspended Cymbal
Percussion 3: Glockenspiel, Marimba
Percussion 4: Vibraphone
Percussion 5: Large Bass Drum