Morehead: Prairie Portraits for Alto Saxophone and Piano Genre_with PercussionCode: JP4048 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0052 9 Prairie Portraits is an expression of the composer's love for the wide open prairies of her homeland Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Manitoba, with its almost always sunny skies (be the temperature 90 degrees above zero in the short summers or 35 below zero during the long winters), gave her great freedom of spirit. Chicago, Illinois, Ms. Morehead's current home, is for her just a much bigger Winnipeg surrounded by
'slightly tipsy'
with versions by Vivaldi and Geminiani being the most well-known today
It was renamed in 2018 to more accurately reflect the inspiration behind the composition
Originally written for two contrabassoons
requested the instrumentation of the work
The music is meant to be challenging with the hopes that the student will rise to it
he has a vision of children playing in blackened
they contain a variety of styles and lovely Romantic writing for the clarinet
Selected Works for Clarinet and Piano 1850-1890" with Matthew Nelson
The instrumentation in this edition
It will be a great contrast to your program
they also appeared in an alternative version for clarinet