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DOUBLE AVIARY

concerto for tenor saxophone and orchestra (2023) — by Griffin Candey for Drew Hosler — commissioned by the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra made possible by support from the Eric Stokes Fund, Earth's Best in Tune

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Double Aviary

concerto for tenor saxophone and orchestra

I. First Aviary

II. —

III. Second Aviary

Griffin Candey 2023

Program Note

Double Aviary (2023) a tenor saxophone concerto commissioned by Matt Salvaggio and the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra with saxophonist Andrew Hosler, follows an arc of climate disaster and renewal through a simple lens: shore birds.

Bird populations are a core indicator of shoreline health. Because of their rich infrastructure of marsh plants, algae, and insects, shorelines attract a tremendous array of birds, all of whom play important roles in maintaining watershed biodiversity. Any number of human impacts—erosion, deforestation, chemical waste—can upset the natural equilibrium of a shoreline, threatening the migratory patterns, habitat, and reproduction of the area’s birds. In the case of the Lake Erie shoreline, the focus of this work, avian populations plummeted with the rise of massive industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries, suffocated by deforestation and depletion of prey. Only after sizeable climate activism in response to climate disasters—including the Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969, in which pollutants on the river caught fire and burned for hours—did the tide begin to turn for Erie, a renewed health especially signaled by one key factor: the reemergence of its bird populations.

Double Aviary draws a three-movement arc through all of this. In First Aviary, we see an unspoiled image of the shore before industrial intervention, built upon the song of an Erie native, the red-winged blackbird; in a second, unnamed movement, we follow the cycle of human error that never self-corrects until the weight of its short-sightedness is too grave to ignore; and the last movement, Second Aviary, depicts a (not-so-distant) future in which the watershed flourishes again in earnest, an intentional and thoughtful equilibrium, reviving the songs from native Erie birds. This work was generously supported by the Eric Stokes “Earth’s Best In Tune” Fund, and we cannot thank them enough for their kindness and dedication to conversation.

Movements

I. First Aviary

II. —

III. Second Aviary

Instrumentation

Flute 1-2

Oboe 1-2

Clarinet in Bb 1-2

Bassoon 1-2

Horn 1-2

Trumpet in C 1-2

Trombone 1-2

Percussion (2 players):

Player 1: Tom-tom (mid-to-low), Kick Drum, Brake Drum, Tambourine, Woodblock (1), Suspended Cymbal, Vibraphone

Player 2: Tom-tom (mid-to-low), Kick Drum, Brake Drum, Castanets, Triangle, Glockenspiel, Tubular Bells Instruments cannot be shared between the two players

Piano

Solo Tenor Saxophone Strings

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Duration: 17 minutes

First printing of this edition, August 2024

concerto for tenor saxophone and orchestra

I. First Aviary

semi-aleatoric — mostly texture, breathe and re-attack when necessary

Violin I

Violin II

Viola

long, slow cool down

(parenthetical tempi are guidelines, not precise)

long, slow cool down al ne (parenthetical tempi are guidelines, not precise)

Seething, heckling = 76

still loose and imprecise, but dying away — land more precisely on the nal E

abrupt cut-oﬀ

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loose, ribbon-like — at your own pace, but whip quickly and ferociously up at the end

frantic in the background

Percussion 1

Glockenspiel

trying to begin again

con sord.

senza vib. — very smooth, change bow as needed

con sord. senza vib. — very smooth, change bow as needed

Violin I

Violin II

Glockenspiel

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