The composer's late father-in-law, Alan, carved a small wooden item on his lathe and gave it to his daughter, the composer's wife. he noticed it on the mantlepiece as he was naming this piece. A small dedication for a little piece of music, designed to make…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Lachlan Davidson
Publisher:
Brolga Music
As often happens, Lucky Lockie lept off the piano and demanded to become a tune when the composer was teaching saxophone to another Lockie. The bass line became the key ingredient. Both Lockies were lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I guess…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Lachlan Davidson
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Melting Clocks is a quirky romp through Salvador Dalí’s painting 'The Persistence of Memory.' Quotes of the commissioning school’s fight song and alma mater are synthesized with bending melodies, tick-tocking elements, and a unique harmonic language.Program…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Chad Heiny
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
South of the Baw Baw Ranges, about 160km east of Melbourne, Victoria, lies Moondarra Reservoir, a water catchment and storage dam. Moondarra - a word that comes from the local Australian Aboriginal people - is thought to mean “plenty of rain and thunder” and…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Steven Capaldo
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Scored for percussion quintet with optional offstage percussionist(s), Thundersnow is mysterious, mesmerizing, bold, but also extremely delicate at times: much like the storms themselves.Program NotesIt’s rather ironic that I wrote Thundersnow for a…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Chad Heiny
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications