We Are Orlando by Christopher Patton Sheet Music for Woodwind Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title We Are Orlando

Artist Christopher Patton

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Christopher Patton

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 13

Arrangement Woodwind Ensemble

Publisher Christopher Patton

Product ID 1125348

Genre Contemporary

Instruments English Horn Flute Oboe

Performance Group Woodwind Trio

Product Description

Writing this duet for flute and oboe//English Horn began immediately after the massacre at the Pulse night club in Orlando, FL in June 2016. The fate which befell those innocent people was undeserving in spite of where they were and who they were. I expressed my anger and outrage in this music to honor the memory of those who died that night.

The first movement is a bit off-kilter; there is something in the air. The second movement is evocative of having a nice evening and enjoying time with friends. As the the third movement begins, the music depicts something ominous coming which crescendos to the flute and oboe a second apart representing screams. My intent with the prior statement is not to relive the horrors of that evening. I wanted to respectfully represent what happened. I wanted the performers in addition to interpreting my music to have an active role in the composition in which the flute and oboe engage in an improvisation to represent the rampage and their outrage. The remainder of the final movement gradually slows as the flute and oboe notes are sustained and ascending to a quiet and peaceful end with the unspoken message nothing will keep us down.

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