Proud Music of the Storm

Grade: Professional

Duration: 7:10

Composed June - August, 2010 in Los Angeles

Premiered February 25, 2011 by the Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia, David Gilbert conducting.

Version: 1.0

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Then I woke softly, And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,

And questioning all those reminiscences—the tempest in its fury,

And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,

And those rapt oriental dances, of religious fervor,

And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs,

And all the artless plaints of love, and grief and death,

I said to my silent, curious Soul, out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,

Come, for I have found the clue I sought so long,

Let us go forth refresh’d amid the day,

Cheerfully tallying life, walking the world, the real,

Nourish’d henceforth by our celestial dream.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)

Instrumentation:

2 Flutes (2nd doubling Piccolo)

2 Oboes

2 Clarinets in B-flat

Baritone Saxophone

2 Bassoons

4 Horns in F

3 Trumpets in C

3 Trombones

Tuba

Timpani

Percussion 1: Bass Drum, Cowbell, Crotales, Glockenspiel, Hi-hat, High and Low Tom-toms

Percussion 2: Chimes, Guiro, Snare Drum, Xylophone

Percussion 3: Bass Drum, Kick Drum, Triangle, Vibraphone, Wood Block

Piano / Celesta (sounds 8va)

Harp

Strings - (Not less than 16, 12, 10, 8, 6)