CONCERT BAND
Mulholland Drive - David Hockney's Road to the Studio
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Acrylic on canvas: 2.18m (h) x 6.17m (w) • LACMA, Los Angeles
© David Hockney Foundation • Used by Permission (Kew Wind Orchestra 2011)
Mulholland Drive - David Hockney's Road to the Studio
Commissioned by: Kew Wind Orchestra (U.K.), with funds from ‘Awards for All’ from the UK National Lottery
Duration: 10:15
Grade: 6
Instrumentation: 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 clarinet in Eb, 3 clarinets in Bb, 1 alto clarinet in Eb, 1 bass clarinet, 2 alto sax, 1 tenor sax, 1 baritone sax, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 euphonium, 1 tuba, timpani, drumkit, percussion, xylophone
First Performance Details: Chiswick London
Date: July 4, 2002
Performers: Kew Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Spencer Down
Second Performance: BASWBE, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Date: April 13, 2003
Performers: Kew Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Spencer Down
Short Programme Note:
This musical work for full complement symphonic wind band, is inspired by and descriptive of Bradford born David Hockney's vivid, epic, and multi-perspective 1980’s canvas, Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, which is over six metres in length, and exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Hockney explained that the word “Drive” in the title was “not the name of the road but the act of driving” along a route he came to know well, when he daily took it, to and from his then studio in Southern California. Every twist and turn and new viewpoint, yields new vistas in electric blues, reds, greens, yellows.....and the music attempts to capture this eclectic and vibrant palette of ever changing landscape, as it charts every twist and turn on this "drive" along one of the West Coast’s most celebrated highways. The piece was commissioned from Michael Omer by Kew Wind Orchestra with funds from the National Lottery Awards for All scheme.
Imagined Corners - Concerto for Trumpet* & Concert Band
*optional flugelhorn in 2nd movement
"At the round earth's imagined corners
Blow your trumpets..."
John Donne (1573-1631)
Imagined Corners - Concerto for Trumpet & Concert Band
Originally Commissioned by: Guildford High School (2004)
Duration: 18:00
Grade: 6
Instrumentation: 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 clarinet in Eb, 3 clarinets in Bb, 1 alto clarinet in Eb, 1 bass clarinet,
2 bassoons, 1 soprano sax, 1 alto sax, 1 tenor sax, 1 baritone sax, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 euphonium, 1 tuba, 1 double bass, timpani, 3 percussion
First Concert Band Performance Details: Colchester, Essex, UK
Date: November 16th, 2018
Performers: Claire Howard (trpt) & The Band of the Royal Parachute Regiment, UK
Conductor & Director of Music: Captain Matthew Simons
Short Programme Note:
The original work was scored for trumpet and symphony orchestra, and was written between October 2003 and February 2004, in London and the Swiss Alps. This reimagining was facilitated by Kit Turnbull, and translates superbly into the concert band medium. This work is in one continuous movement, of around 18 minutes in length, though falling into three main sections - broadly “fast-slow-fast”. The outer sections have a driving energy, with engaging interplay between soloist and band, and include extensive cadenzas. The central slower section is moody and heavily jazz-influenced, in a slow hot-house jazz-style, and may optionally be played on flugelhorn.
