Vignettes for Solo Euphonium and Band

The great British composer Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) devoted a significant part of his career writing music for his friends and colleagues in the music world. He once said, "Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is." It's this very sentiment that has animated my long musical and personal relationship with the Ridgewood Concert Band, and which inspired the creation of this piece.
VIGNETTES is exactly what the title implies: a series of short musical scenes in which the euphonium reveals certain elements of its character and personality, with the active assistance of the band. The listener may draw some comparisons to a concerto (though the piece really isn't one) in that the two elements - soloist and band - remain of equal importance to each other throughout the duration of the work. There are six sections to the piece which connect to each other seamlessly; there are no pauses between each section, as in a traditional multi-movement work.