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for wind ensemble

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I N S T R U M E N TAT I O NPiccolo

Flute 1 & 2Oboe 1

Oboe 2 (doubling English Horn)Bassoon 1 & 2

Bb Clarinet 1 - 4Bb Bass Clarinet

Bb Contrabass Clarinet

Eb Alto Saxophone 1 (doubling Soprano Saxophone)Eb Alto Saxophone 2Bb Tenor Saxophone

Eb Baritone Saxophone

Bb Trumpet 1 - 3F Horn 1 - 4

Trombone 1 - 3Euphonium

TubaString Bass

Percussion 1: TimpaniPercussion 2: Snare Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Bass Drum (shared)

Percussion 3: Glockenspiel, Suspended Cymbal, Sand BlocksPercussion 4: Chimes, Bass Drum (shared)

Percussion 5: VibraphonePercussion 6: Marimba, Crash Cymbal, Tam-Tam

D U R AT I O Nca. 6:00

Cover artwork by Jessica Tang.www.tessatangerine.com

Copyright © 2016 Michael Markowski / Markowski Creative (ASCAP). All rights reserved.For more information, please visit http://www.michaelmarkowski.com

FOREVER SUMMERM I C H A E L M A R K O W S K I

for wind ensemble


Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne Daniel Tembras

Grand Street Community Band Brian Worsdale

Texas Tech University Duane Hill

Louisiana State University Dennis Llinás

University of Arkansas Benjamin Lorenzo

University of Puget Sound Gerard Morris

Michigan State University John T. Madden

Scarsdale High School Jason Noble

C O M M I S S I O N E D B Y


S P E C I A L T H A N K SFrench Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, Brian Worsdale, Ron Schaefer,

Daniel Tembras, Jacob Wallace, Jessica Tang, Erin Coughlin

P R O G R A M N O T EBy Jacob Wallace

For twelve weeks each summer in the western Catskill Mountains, the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts convenes. Attracting talented young students in the areas of music, drama, dancing, and much more, it has become one of the premier camps for the performing arts in the United States. Its dedicated faculty have produced alumni who represent the upper

professional musicians currently active today. In 2014, to commemorate the French Woods Festival and the 75th birthday of its founder, Ron Schaefer, Michael Markowski was commissioned to compose a work for the festival symphony orchestra. In regards to the work’s inspiration, the composer says:

Ron Schaefer was a former band director who eventually went on in his “summer years” to build this incredible empire at French Woods. The piece essentially takes two perspectives: one is a celebration of the amazing achievements the festival has made and an acknowledgement of its success today, and the other is nostalgic, looking back at the years past for both Ron and the students, pining for those summers away or abroad that we wish would never end.

Markowski’s Forever Summer is carefree and rhapsodic,

Its motivic content is relatively simple, with only a few distinct melodic ideas that all relate to each other. The work captivates instead through its dynamically shifting harmonic realms and a compelling and exciting structural unpredictability, with the yearning tunes suddenly giving way to dazzling fanfares. The piece begins with

underneath a graceful soprano saxophone melody in the lydian mode. From here, energy builds with sizzling sixteenth notes that become rippling arpeggios as the tune develops and eventually metamorphoses

energy back to the relatively static nature that began the work. A similar shape follows immediately: a wistful melody (here shared from the horn to muted trumpet), a development of energy (rousted by bell tones in the

major section of the piece to a close. The midsection of the work, which begins in the strikingly distant tonal center of D mixolydian, develops a series of variations on the earlier muted trumpet tune, introduced in a stately version offered by the horns. Through imitative repetitions that bounce around the ensemble, it erodes into the simplest rendition of its core: three ascending pitches that repeat as insistent quarter notes and have a searching quality, as they spin the piece faster and through more daring harmonic

work’s concluding section, with an upward ripping motive that combines elements both of the nostalgic tune that

section celebrates both the past and the present, as all the themes from the work are combined and layered in a triumphant push. An insistent sandblock ostinato keeps the effervescent tempo leaning forward, and playful syncopations are reminiscent of the exuberant spirit of Michael Torke’s Bright Blue Music. The end

bright timbre, replete with thunderous bass drum and heroic chords, in joyful celebration.

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Forever Summer was commissioned by a consortium of wind bands led by Daniel Tembras and was premiered by the Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne Wind Ensemble on March 8, 2016 at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Daniel Tembras, conductor.


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