Duration: 7:00
Recorded by Jim Hayes, cooperation band, conductor Michael Fowles on the CD Angels Will Fall
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Slate, Sea and Sky features a musical landscape and journey in three integrated and continuous sections, led by the cornet soloist alongside ensembles broadly representing the title’s elements: ‘slate’ (flugelhorn, tenor horns and trombones); ‘sea’ (baritones, euphoniums and basses) and ‘sky’ (cornets). These alternate throughout with the full band, travelling towards and through a storm, and emerging into bright skies at the end.
The title Slate, Sea and Sky is inspired by Norman Bissell’s evocative poem of the same name, found in a book of poetry given to me by a close friend, to whom the work is dedicated.
Liz Lane, 2016. www.lizlane.co.uk
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Slate, Sea and Sky, A Journey from Glasgow to the Isle of Luing, Norman Bissell, published by Luath Press.
Slate, Sea and Sky
An island on the rim of the world
in that space between slate, sea and sky
where air and ocean currents
are plays of wild energy
and the light changes everything.
Norman Bissell
Front cover photo Stuart Pearson
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Instrumentation:
Eb Soprano Cornet
Bb Solo Cornets
Bb Repiano Cornet
Bb Cornet 2
Bb Cornet 3
Bb Flugelhorn
Eb Solo Tenor Horn
Eb Tenor Horn 1
Eb Tenor Horn 2
Bb Baritone1
Bb Baritone2
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Bass Trombone
Bb Euphonium
Eb Bass
Bb Bass
Timpani
Percussion 1: Tambourine, Bass Drum
Percussion 2: Snare Drum, Medium and High Suspended Cymbals, Clash Cymbals