June 12, 20187 yr A while ago I decided that writing for wind band was something I wanted to seriously pursue. After a couple false starts this year, I finally got going on a second wind band work (after 'Aviary', which was performed twice last year), and gradually worked on it over the last two months. It's now become my longest single-movement work so far, and I'm quite proud of a few of the ideas in it. I'll soon be sending it around to a few conductor friends of mine to see if anyone will be willing to play it, but I'm pretty sure that someone will somewhere. The score still needs a bit of polishing here and there but I'll leave that for if/when I have to make some presentable parts.
June 13, 20187 yr @stewboy Well that was just wonderful! 9/10 from me. Very well made, very well orchestrated, you actually made a 9 minutes piece with the one same theme, I can't write a 6 minutes piece without adding a second one. Very impressive, I'm sure that the conductors you know will be glad to perform it with their orchestra. One thing that bothered me was the fact that I didn't really feel any obvious climax, but maybe that's what you intended to do. Also, I think that the fact that at the beginning it isn't stable rhythmically, and then it becomes more and more stable helps to the feeling of progression. If I had wrote this piece, I'd probably write a one or two pages story, to guide the listeners, to give them the atmosphere. Tell them about the forest spirits. I wish you good luck with that, please upload the performance once you get it!
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