A brief, accessible, yet sophisticated work suitable for changing and changed male voices alike. Emily Dickinson's poem describes the coming and passing of a great storm, an allegory for the typhoid fever epidemic (in her own life) and the ongoing pandemic (in the present day).
The packet includes a full conductor's score, as as well as a piano/vocal score and instrumental parts for three percussionists. "There Came a Wind Like a Bugle" invites collaboration with student instrumentalists by utilizing accessible auxillary and pitched percussion parts.