Ludlow, by Roland Barrett is an absolute amazing piece. He incorporated some beautiful solos for flute, trumpet, clarinet, bass clarinet, and oboe. The piece is written about a massacre in Colorado, it visualizes the events that took place in 1914, the Ludlow Massacre.
The piece opens with a percussion and a flute solo, then joined by clarinet and oboe. It starts out with dissonance and builds tension until it has you on the edge of your seat, each section joins in on the chord until it can no longer hold. The trumpets lead the melody followed by french horns and saxophones. It then starts to calm down but percussion is still driving the band, woodwinds come in and trumpets.
The piece slows down dramatically and opens up for solo on trumpet, the trumpet solo is backed up by a beautiful clarinet and bass clarinet counter melody. The trumpet solo is very melancholy, almost like the trumpet is crying. The band joins in and builds momentum until everything collapses, seemingly like all hope is lost, but in reality, that's when the fun begins.
The band is preparing for an extreme cry for help. The music near the finale of the piece is eventful, and triumphant. The band is beginning the final stretch to the end. A bassoon and bass clarinet enters a powerful melody, then included by clarinets and saxophones. The part sounds very, very dissonant. It was without harmony. The music triumphs with a powerful exciting melody and ends with trumpets double tonguing, sounding like machine guns. and then the song ends with a boom.
The piece opens with a percussion and a flute solo, then joined by clarinet and oboe. It starts out with dissonance and builds tension until it has you on the edge of your seat, each section joins in on the chord until it can no longer hold. The trumpets lead the melody followed by french horns and saxophones. It then starts to calm down but percussion is still driving the band, woodwinds come in and trumpets.
The piece slows down dramatically and opens up for solo on trumpet, the trumpet solo is backed up by a beautiful clarinet and bass clarinet counter melody. The trumpet solo is very melancholy, almost like the trumpet is crying. The band joins in and builds momentum until everything collapses, seemingly like all hope is lost, but in reality, that's when the fun begins.
The band is preparing for an extreme cry for help. The music near the finale of the piece is eventful, and triumphant. The band is beginning the final stretch to the end. A bassoon and bass clarinet enters a powerful melody, then included by clarinets and saxophones. The part sounds very, very dissonant. It was without harmony. The music triumphs with a powerful exciting melody and ends with trumpets double tonguing, sounding like machine guns. and then the song ends with a boom.