Vulcan for Concert Band is Grammy award winning composer Michael Daughertys first work for the high school and intermediate level college band. The work is a colorful homage to Gene Roddenberrys interstellar universe as depicted in the classicAmerican television series Star Trek (1966-69). The title refers to the fiery planet Vulcan home world of half-human half-Vulcan Mr. Spock. As the rational-minded science officer aboard the starship Enterprise (commanded by the hot-bloodedCaptain James T. Kirk) Mr. Spock grapples with the fascinating predicament of making decisions predicated on human emotion versus Vulcan logic. Daugherty has composed stirring yet highly structured music that alludes to the Vulcan Pon Farr ritual Vulcan telepathic mind-melds and the volcanic planet itself. At the the Ann Arbor Michigan world premiere (utilizing the combined forces of the Pioneer Huron and Skyline High School bands) Vulcan was an immediate hit and willsurely become one of Daughertys most performed works.
SKU: GI.G-CD-989
UPC: 785147098928.
This latest release in the GIA Composer's Collection series showcases the work of Michael Daugherty. Grammy® award winning composer Michael Daugherty is one of the most commissioned, performed, and recorded composers on the American concert music scene today. His music is influenced by modern, post-modern, and romantic music and is performed extensively throughout the world.  Stunningly performed by the North Texas Wind Symphony, under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon, this recording brings together some the best works of this accomplished composer. The booklet includes extensive liner notes about Michael Daugherty and his contribution to wind band repertoire.  The GIA Composer's Collection offers wonderful recordings of masterworks by some of the most respected wind symphony composers of all time. Contents: Niagara Falls (1997) • UFO (2001): Traveling Music, Unidentified, Flying, ???, Objects • On the Air (2012) • Lost Vegas (2011): Viva, Mirage, Fever • Red Cape Tango (1999) • Brooklyn Bridge (2005): East, South, West, North • Desi (1991) • Vulcan (2014): Pon Farr, Mind Meld, Vulcan's Forge • Bells for Stokowski (2002) • Winter Dreams (2015) • Bizzaro (1993) • Alligator Alley (2003) • Motown Metal (1994) • Rio Grande (2015).
