NIGHTSCAPE/DAYBREAK (2006)

For Solo Trumpet and Wind Ensemble

Awarded honorable mention in the 2006 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize

Selected for the 2007 Virginia Chapter of CBDNA Symposium 32 for New Band Music

   

Program Note:

Daybreak is inspired by the Georgia O’Keeffe painting Radiator Building at Night (1927). Daybreak imagines what the building and city in O’Keeffe’s painting would be like during the day, as the city awakens and the streets begin to bustle with people.

While Daybreak is commonly performed as a stand-alone work, it is a movement from a larger work, Nightscape/Daybreak also inspired by the same Georgia O’Keeffe painting. The first movement, Nightscape, depicts the painting as it is: the nightline of a building illuminated by stark vertical columns of floodlights.

**To see an image of Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting: click here

Recording:

Excerpts:

    Excerpt I:

    Excerpt II:

Full Recording:

    II. Daybreak (9 minutes):

Past performances:

- Yale University – Eric Nathan, conductor; Allan Dean, trumpet (May 1, 2006)

- Virginia Intercollegiate Band, Virginia Tech, VA; Eric Nathan conductor, John Adler, trumpet.

- Nishi High School Band, Hakodate, Japan; Ryota Narita, director, Yoshiaki Onishi, conductor.