Airborne
Movement 1 from Suspended for Symphonic Wind Band
by Alex Shapiro
Concert Band - Sheet Music

Score and Parts Concert Band (Score & Parts) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.4007244

Movement 1 from Suspended for Symphonic Wind Band. Composed by Alex Shapiro. Activist Music. Concert. Softcover. Duration 285 seconds. Published by Activist Music (HL.4007244).

UPC: 840126969436. 9.0x12.0x1.21 inches.

“Airborne” is the sole movement from Suspended by Alex Shapiro that's purely acoustic, with no accompaniment audio soundscape. It launches the symphony upward with a tightly motivic Sonata form of short repeating passages, in an unrelenting, ever-swirling and disorienting wake-up call. This is one of four movements in Suspended, a piece is composed in the tradition of an 18th century Classical symphony: four contrasting movements which serve specific functions and reveal a story. The work begins in absolute rage and chaos, then alternates between moments of grief and bleakness. Grim reality shifts to a macabre, circus-like insanity, and by the end, flickers of genuine hope contrast a pervasive sense of dread, and finally arrive at more optimistic possibilities.