Christopher Tucker: Music Gallery
SERENADE AT PROSPECT POINT
(for young band)
2007 • Estimated timing: 4'20" • Grade 2
[Published by Southern Music Company (2010)]
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Recording featuring the Rockwall-Heath HS Symphonic Band, Chris Kosterman, cond.
The composer writes, “Serenade at Prospect Point is my second middle school composition inspired by my journeys to Niagara Falls. The first, Journey down Niagara, was inspired by my trip with my wife Kimberly to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, celebrating our one-year wedding anniversary. We experienced attractions like the Maid of the Mist, White Water Walk and Journey Behind the Falls. Due to a world premiere eight months later of my Legends for symphonic band, I found myself in the Niagara Falls area. This time my wife and I visited the American side of the falls taking in the sights at the beautiful Prospect Point. The experience was more tuned to the naturalistic scope of the surrounding wildlife, graceful and tranquil. Prospect Point represents a joyful place evoking a spirit of romance and frivolity. These impressions became the basis for Serenade at Prospect Point. The work, based on the theme of Journey down Niagara, is broken up into two sections surrounded by introductory and concluding material – morning, serenade, waltz and evening.”
Serenade at Prospect Point was commissioned by the Lake Travis Middle School Bands, Austin, Texas, Kevin Jedele and Ryan O'Donoghue, directors.
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