Music
Grade: 5
Duration: 6'15"
Perusal Score (PDF)
Instrumentation
Stampede (2003)
Premiered: February 18th, 2004, Alberta International Band Festival, by the Calgary Stampede Band, Dan Finley, Conductor.
Commissioned by the Calgary Stampede Band, with support by the Rozsa Foundation.
This work is on the Texas UIL Prescribed Music List as a grade 5.
Stampede is a western, at once evoking the romanticized "wild west", while the much wilder, unpredictable reality of that era repeatedly interjects its presence.
The music is a high-spirited celebration of the Calgary Stampede's cultural amalgamation (from the cowboys and the agricultre and livestock industries they represent, to the First Nations, to the Young Canadians, and of course, the Stampede Band), and the unified spirit of all these groups in promoting their western values and heritage.
It can loosely be thought of as Copland's Billy the Kid meets John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Written for the Calgary Stampede Showband, this work is meant for the large, symphonic band ensemble. Yeehaw!
Orchestra
Professional
Educational/Youth
Band
Professional
- Alchemy in Silent Spaces
- Axis Mundi
- Concerto for Cello (NEW)
- Concerto for Piano (NEW)
- Concerto for Wind Ensemble (NEW)
- Ecstatic Waters
- Monkey
- RedLine
Medium / Difficult
- Anthem
- First Light
- Paean (NEW)
- Parody Suite
- - ImPercynations
- - Suite Dreams
- - MetaMarch
- - Chester Leaps In
- Radiant Joy
- Rise
- Stampede
Educational/Youth
- Bloom
- Dusk
- Interruption Overture
- Interruptions (NEW)
- The Machine Awakes (NEW)
- The Marbled Midnight Mile
- Wings That Work
Mixed
- A Million Suns at Midnight
(two versions)