3.3.3.3 / 4.4.3.1 / timp.3 perc.harp / strings
2’20”
composed 2011
commissioned and premiered by the Youth Orchestras of Fresno (Fresno, California)
Composer’s Note
Jubilation Fanfare was composed for the Youth Orchestras of Fresno to celebrate their 60th anniversary. This compact two minute work opens up with a bright and triumphant call in the trumpets and trombones, quickly echoed by the rest of the ensemble. The piece maintains a quick and upbeat pace, propelled forward by a repeated eighth note pulse as lyrical melodic "wisps" pass back and forth amongst the woodwinds and strings. Hints of a chorale melody emerge prior to the climax of the work, slowly rising from the lowest voices of the ensemble and eventually passing into the entirety of the brass section. The work concludes with the same fanfare call that opens the work, transposed to a new key and reorchestrated to provide an even brighter color than the initial presentation.