Music That Looks Good, Sounds Good, and Feels Good
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Composer:
Lucas Blevins (b. 2001)
Difficulty:
Advanced
Performance Time:
Approximately 4 minutes
Instrumentation:
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon
Description:
The human mind processes an enormous amount of visual stimuli each and every moment, and yet from that enormous amount of data, the conscious self only notices a fraction of it. Eyesight for woodwind quartet seeks to transmit that key fraction of visual data that the brain has deemed most important from the eyes to the ears, simulating a grand ensemble sound through only four instruments.
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The Fallen and the Free - Wind Band
"Dedicated to the brave soldiers who have laid down their lives so that we may be free.”
The Fallen and the Free was premiered at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on March 22nd, 2018 by the Century High School Band, written and performed to honor the valiant American soldiers who died there that fateful day and every other soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
Blevins’ Latest Composition…
Inspired by the head-banging tunes of New York Subway band, the Lucky Chops, Funk92 was originally composed for the 6:30am Brass Band during Lucas Blevins’ tenure as director. At the time, he had been surrounded by a very contemporary New Orleans brass band sound and Funk92’s composition was a byproduct of that. At its namesake, 92 beats per minute, the chart is just fast enough to get you moving with grooving 16th note syncopations but still slow enough to keep the feel laid back and funky. This version arranged for SaxBand was further inspired by Lucas’ time playing with the Washington State University Big Band I under the direction of Dr. Greg Yasinitsky who is fond of calling tunes (many of which he composed or arranged himself) that feature the saxophones. The soli section in Funk92 reflects that traditional big band sax soli sound Lucas has become accustomed to playing combined with the rhythmic drive of the contemporary New Orleans brass band melodies that had originally inspired the composition.
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