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Band (Grade 5) - 7’ 30”
2021
Both my parents and brother were born on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which sometimes made me feel like the outlier growing up as I was the only “northern” in our immediate family. After my father returned from the Afghan war, we moved back to the Magnolia state. Following an extremely muggy summer, I experienced my first hurricane season. We moved post Katrina, so as scary as the name sounds, I often found myself listening to the rain or going outside to our covered back porch and watching the rain as it was rather calming and introspective. Of course, when the lights started flickering, or branches were flowing in the wind, I quickly retreated inside!
And So Brewed A Mighty Storm is my way of capturing both the tranquility and thunderously devastating nature of a storm. This piece ebbs and flows between delicate upper woodwinds representing lighter shower and dark brass melodies taking the place of swelling cumulonimbus clouds; eventually, “the bottom falls out” and the hurricane makes landfall towards the end of the piece, with a call back to melodies heard earlier.
Band (Grade 5) - 7’ 30”
2021
Both my parents and brother were born on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which sometimes made me feel like the outlier growing up as I was the only “northern” in our immediate family. After my father returned from the Afghan war, we moved back to the Magnolia state. Following an extremely muggy summer, I experienced my first hurricane season. We moved post Katrina, so as scary as the name sounds, I often found myself listening to the rain or going outside to our covered back porch and watching the rain as it was rather calming and introspective. Of course, when the lights started flickering, or branches were flowing in the wind, I quickly retreated inside!
And So Brewed A Mighty Storm is my way of capturing both the tranquility and thunderously devastating nature of a storm. This piece ebbs and flows between delicate upper woodwinds representing lighter shower and dark brass melodies taking the place of swelling cumulonimbus clouds; eventually, “the bottom falls out” and the hurricane makes landfall towards the end of the piece, with a call back to melodies heard earlier.