Everything Must Go

Though in the light of recent political events, the title Everything Must Go is in no relation to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. However, the piece is about the finality of all things; that all things come to an end in the long term.

The piece itself was commissioned to be for the seemingly new ensemble that arose out of the pandemic; the “makeshift” adaptable wind ensemble. Because most schools are having students enter at sporadic times, it’s nearly impossible to perform works for full fledged wind ensemble. So the piece can be played by a wide variety of wind instruments (whatever you got) in either a chamber music setting or as a large (socially distant) ensemble. In all honesty, the compositional process of this piece is more closely aligned to solving a crossword puzzle; there are so many constrictions baked into the “makeshift” ensemble that there are only a handful of things that can work for seemingly any wind combination.

The piece is available for purchase as a direct to email PDF set of score and parts here.