Gale - for solo trumpet and wind band
This piece was written for and about my pal Buddy Deshler, Jupiter XO artist and trumpeter with the Dallas Brass. It's a chronology of sorts, outlining how he has progressed as an artist in my eyes, beginning with our time together at George Mason University. When we met, he was already a fantastic trumpet player and an incredibly nice guy, and he was just starting to build a portfolio career.
So Gale sort of documents that progression, starting out kind of innocent, then once it gets going, bumbling and awkward and halting, and as it moves along, it becomes more refined and cohesive. The title "Gale" is the most apt name I could think of to describe Buddy's fervor and determination to always be improving his craft. As such, once the tempo picks up, it never relents. Even in the flowing section before the cadenza, the tempo is simply taken at half time, which indicates a sort of respite with the knowledge that the hard work is about to pick right back up where it left off.
This piece was written for and about my pal Buddy Deshler, Jupiter XO artist and trumpeter with the Dallas Brass. It's a chronology of sorts, outlining how he has progressed as an artist in my eyes, beginning with our time together at George Mason University. When we met, he was already a fantastic trumpet player and an incredibly nice guy, and he was just starting to build a portfolio career.
So Gale sort of documents that progression, starting out kind of innocent, then once it gets going, bumbling and awkward and halting, and as it moves along, it becomes more refined and cohesive. The title "Gale" is the most apt name I could think of to describe Buddy's fervor and determination to always be improving his craft. As such, once the tempo picks up, it never relents. Even in the flowing section before the cadenza, the tempo is simply taken at half time, which indicates a sort of respite with the knowledge that the hard work is about to pick right back up where it left off.
This piece was written for and about my pal Buddy Deshler, Jupiter XO artist and trumpeter with the Dallas Brass. It's a chronology of sorts, outlining how he has progressed as an artist in my eyes, beginning with our time together at George Mason University. When we met, he was already a fantastic trumpet player and an incredibly nice guy, and he was just starting to build a portfolio career.
So Gale sort of documents that progression, starting out kind of innocent, then once it gets going, bumbling and awkward and halting, and as it moves along, it becomes more refined and cohesive. The title "Gale" is the most apt name I could think of to describe Buddy's fervor and determination to always be improving his craft. As such, once the tempo picks up, it never relents. Even in the flowing section before the cadenza, the tempo is simply taken at half time, which indicates a sort of respite with the knowledge that the hard work is about to pick right back up where it left off.