Loonie & Toonies (2019)

for orchestral winds

 

Composed as part of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Generation Composers project

 

Download a .pdf of the score here.

Program Note:

Loonie & Toonies is a tribute to the $1 and $2 coins in Canada. It is in no way a lighthearted musical romp designed to capture the madcap energy of a particular brand of mid-twentieth-century cartoons.
 

Instrumentation:

Piccolo (doubling Flute)

Flute

Oboe I / II

Bassoon I / II

B-flat Clarinet

Bass Clarinet (doubling B-flat Clarinet)

Horn in F I / II

Trumpet in C

String Bass

Percussion I / II