Kuster | Pinery Park

Pinery Park

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for solo trumpets & symphonic wind ensemble

Kristin Kuster

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Pinery Park

for solo trumpets & symphonic wind ensemble

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Kristin Kuster

Program Note

Pinery Park is written for trumpet soloist William Lucas. A four-movement work, Pinery Park showcases the multi-faceted sounds and styles of varied trumpets, as well as my love of the Pinery Provincial Park on the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario. While the solo trumpet parts are tailored to highlight Lucas’s work as a crossover artist (a decades-long member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s trumpet section, Lucas is also an assistant professor in the Jazz Department of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance), Pinery Park can be presented with multiple soloists.

Pinery Provincial Park is a magical place. It is gorgeous. It has about 6 miles of shoreline on Lake Huron, with extremely rare ecosystems. It is also home to over 300 bird species. There are 10 walking/hiking trails, a beautifully-kept bike trail, and ski and snow-shoeing trails for the winter months. There are camping sites that snuggle up to the base of the dunes, and one can simply pop over a dune and spend the day on the breathtaking beach.

Membership dues for the Friends of the Pinery organization go to preserving the park. The park has naturalists on hand to educate visitors on the varied ecosystems within the park, as well as an app with maps, resources, etc.. My favorite page on the app is “Dynamic Dunes,” which has graphics illustrating the evolution and ecology of the park’s beaches. It details how the shoreline of the Pinery is a landscape that is always changing. While the Pinery usually gains sand each year, occasionally the levels of Lake Huron have risen and eroded material away: in some periods the Pinery grows; in others it gives back some of its sand to the lake. Due to global warming and climate change, Lake Huron’s levels have been steadily increasing over the last decade, and the Pinery is currently in the midst of an ebb period—the shoreline dunes of the park are eroding away.

I adore the Pinery, and this music is a thank-you note to its beauty, grandeur, and loveliness.

Pinery Park was commissioned by director of bands and professor of music Michael Haithcock, for the University of Michigan Symphony Band.

for Bill Lucas

Thank you for the fun, & for introducing me to this magical place

3 Flutes

3 Oboes

3 Clarinets in Bb Bass Clarinet

3 Bassoons

Soprano Saxophone

Alto Saxophone

Tenor Saxophone

Baritone Saxophone

Solo Trumpet Trumpet in C Piccolo Trumpet Flugelhorn in B-flat Trumpet in B-flat 4 Horns in F 3 Trumpets in C

Trombones

Euphoniums

Tubas 2 Contrabass

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3 Percussionists

Crotales, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Marimba (5-octave), 3 Triangles (graduated: sm., med., lg.)

Harp

Piano

1 Suspended Cymbal (c. 16”, c. 22”), Tam-Tam (large), 1 Tom-Tom (medium-low pitch)

Duration: 28'

First printing, January 2024

-Kristin P. Kuster

PINERY PARK

commissioned by Michael Haithcock & The University of Michigan Symphony Band

I.Dunes Beach : Global Warming

Piccolo

Flute 1-3

Oboe 1-3

Clarinet in B b 1-3

Bass Clarinet in B b

Bassoon 1-3

Soprano Saxophone

Alto Saxophone

Tenor Saxophone

Baritone Saxophone

Solo Trumpet in C

Horn in F 1,3

Horn in F 2,4

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Hn 1,3

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f sfz sfz sfz sfz si m

sfz sfz sfz sfz si

f sfz

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B

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