Band Bass Clarinet 1, Bass Clarinet 2, Bass Drum, Bass Trombone, Bassoon 1, Bass...(+)
Band Bass Clarinet 1,
Bass Clarinet 2, Bass
Drum, Bass Trombone,
Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2,
Bones, Celesta, Clarinet
in Bb 1, Clarinet in Bb
2, Clarinet in Bb 3,
Clarinet in Bb 4,
Clarinet in Bb 5,
Clarinet in Bb 6,
Clarinet in Eb,
Contrabassoon and more.
SKU: PR.115402600
Composed by Carter Pann.
Score and parts. Duration
10 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#115-40260. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.115402600).
ISBN
9781491137888. UPC:
680160692576. 11 x 17
inches.
The thrills
of downhill skiing
inspired Carter Pann’s
SLALOM, originally a
multi-prize winning
orchestral work, and
well-loved in the
composer’s own wind
ensemble scoring. This
tone poem flashes through
sections including First
Run, Open Meadow,
Champagne Powder,
Straight Down, Tuck, and
On One Ski,
Gyrating.Pann’s program
note explains, The work
is performed at a severe
tempo throughout,
showcasing the wind
ensemble’s volatility
and endurance. The work
is presented as a
collection of scenes and
events one might come by
on the slopes. In this
way SLALOM shares its
programmatic feature with
that of Richard
Strauss’ Alpine
Symphony.
Slalomxa0was
originally written for
orchestra in 1998-99 as a
scherzo perpetuo. It was
to be a chance to flex my
orchestration muscle to a
degree I had not yet
reached. In 2001
conductor John Lynch was
seeking to commission a
new work for wind
symphony, and we agreed
thatxa0Slalomxa0could
make an attractive
addition to the
repertoire. Arranging the
piece for wind symphony
has proven my most astute
compositional act to
date.Slalomxa0is a taste
of the thrill of downhill
skiing. The work is
performed at a severe
tempo throughout,
showcasing the
orchestra’s volatility
and endurance. The idea
for a piece like this
came directly out of a
wonderful discovery I
made several years ago at
Steamboat Springs,
Colorado, when I embarked
on the mountain-base
gondola with a cassette
player and headphones. At
the time I was treating
myself to large doses of
Shostakovich’sxa0Tenth
Symphonyxa0and
Rachmaninoff’sxa0Sympho
nic Dances.xa0The
exhilaration of barreling
down the Rockies with
such music pumping into
my ears was overwhelming.
After a few years of
skiing with some of the
greatest repertoire, it
occurred to me that I
could customize the
experience.The work is
presented as a collection
of scenes and events one
might come by on the
slopes. The score is
peppered with
phrase-headings for the
different sections such
as “First Run”,
“Open Meadow, Champagne
Powder”, “Straight
Down, Tuck” and “On
One Ski, Gyrating ”
among others. In this way
SLALOMxa0shares its
programmatic feature with
that ofxa0Richard
Strauss’xa0Alpine
Symphony.xa0The
similarities end there,
however,
forxa0SLALOMxa0lasts ten
minutes ... precisely the
amount of time I need to
get from Storm Peak (the
peak of Mt. Werner,
Steamboat Springs) to the
mountain base, skiing
full throttle.