flowers for the shadows by Denin Koch and beta particle Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Denin Koch and beta particle

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Denin Slage-Koch

Composer Denin Slage-Koch

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 58

Arrangement Jazz Ensemble

Publisher Denin Slage-Koch

Level 4

Product ID 573698

Genre Jazz

Performance Group Jazz Ensemble

Product Description

A moving, expressive ballad with folklike qualities for big band, featuring trombone. Written as a tone poem honoring the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the piece also has moments for piano, 1st alto, and guitar. The piece starts softly, with piano and first alto playing in duet as the rest of the band slowly enters. As the trombone states the theme and then improvises, the piece crescendos into a massive, Kenton-esque release before winding back down towards an unresolved, tense, final chord, reminding listeners that the threat of war still looms over humanity.

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