From
Detroit to LA
for Wind Band (Grade 4)
live performance by the
University of
Texas Symphony Band
conducted by Scott Hanna
"From Detroit to LA” is based on a flight I took in November
2009. This was the first time
I had flown on a clear day at a low altitude, and I was struck by the
patterns that emerged from the air:
not only the man-made patterns of towns and plowed farmland, but also
the natural patterns
from mountains, rivers, and canyons. Though we were actually
moving at several hundred miles per hour,
everything below seemed expansive, and shifted from view at a slow
pace, which is the reason
for the quasi-minimalist style often found in this piece.
All of the melodies for the piece were composed on the actual
flight, and the order
in which they appear in the composition is the order in which they
appeared during the flight.
The purpose of the trip was to visit the University of Southern
California, so a few of the
motifs and melodic fragments (as well as other aspects of the
composition) are imitative
of and/or inspired by the music of Frank Ticheli. This piece was edited
in September of 2011 for a
reading session by the UT Wind Ensemble and subsequent premiere by the
UT Symphony Band.
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