From
Detroit to LA
for Wind Band (Grade 4)
live performance by the
University of
Texas Symphony Band
"From
Detroit to LA” is based on a flight that 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 moving at several
hundred miles per hour, everything
below seemed expansive, and shifted from view at a slow and gradual
pace, which led me to compose this piece in a quasi-minimalist
style.
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 take a composition lesson with Frank
Ticheli, so a few of the motifs
and melodic fragments (as well as other aspects of the composition) are
imitative of
and/or inspired by his music.
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