Road Trip 3. Slow Movement
Michael Enright
About this work:
This, the third movement of the Road Trip Suite, is the slow movement. Often, the movements of a suite or sonata will be in a fast-slow-fast order. Nodding my head to the said status-quo, the title throws in a dry 'one-liner'.
Imagine the period of your journey, when the initial vigor and excitement have settled down, you've overcome an obstacle or forty-thousand, and now you just ARE. You're on the journey, doing your thing, you ARE who you BE, you AM, you IS, and your focus is simply clear, you are not jittery, you are not depressed, or excited, none of that.... You're in 'the zone'.... A higher plane if you wish. Though that does not have to be it, you're just clear. You wiped off the table.
Anyways, I used one of my favorite motives- what I call the 'cowboy' theme to open the opera. This then develops a fugue out of a honky-tonky pentatonic idea.
That's the basic development of the piece.
Year composed: 2004
Duration: 00:03:21
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Other Combinations, 2-5 players
Instrumentation: 1 Oboe,1 Oboe soloist(s), 1 Eb Clarinet,1 Eb Clarinet soloist(s), 1 Bassoon,1 Bassoon soloist(s)