August 05, 2008
New Piece - Tamiami Heat for Brass Quintet, Saxes, Piano and Bass
Using leftover material from my new brass quintet I put together my most massive chamber piece evah! Tamiami Heat for Brass Quintet, Saxes, Piano and Bass. A nonet, with a super funky heart and percussive and resonant brass, wind and piano writing. It reminds me of my bassoon piece, Gnomos because of its low down dirty south feeling.
The title comes from a conversation I had with a semi-pro cyclist who was giving me a ride in his truck a couple of weeks ago to pick up Elsie who'd gotten a flat tire in the middle of the island. He was describing a ride across the Everglades to surprise his wife, who was attending a conference in Miami. He said, once he ran out of water about half way through the ride and had decided to commit to finishing the ride, that it was all a blur, a heat stroke of haziness. When we were looking for a title, that image returned, because of the intense heat wave trills throughout much of the piece. The Tamiami Trail is the famous 2 lane road that goes across the Everglades from Fort Myers (near Sanibel) to Miami, through alligator-infested swamps.
Tamiami Heat for Brass Quintet, Saxes, Piano and Bass
I'm going to send it out to publishers, this and my new brass quintet, so if you'd like a copy, email me and I'll get one out to you for perusal purposes. The score is also for sale at Lulu.com where I'm slowly putting all my scores up (and designing crazy covers for each one) so that people can buy them printed and bound.
Now onto work for Sphaera's septet. I plan to make it a similar type of swirling chaotic funk.
Oh, and that new pic of me up there, is in front of the huge strangler fig tree in our parking lot backyard. Elsie took it a few weeks ago.