- For orchestra or piano
- May be performed as part of Traditional Pieces
- Duration: 3 minutes
Orchestration: flutes, piccolo, clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoons, contrabassoon, horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba, percussion, strings
Reviews
“The music’s echoes of vivacious dance tunes and sweet, folk-tinged melodies recall the parlor songs of a bygone era.”
Georgia Rowe
San Francisco Classical Voice, 2012
“Raising the Colors is a beautiful fanfare-like encore for brass, virtuoso finished with wood and strings.”
Hans Visser
Gooi en Eemlander, 2010
Gallery
“Tiefer und Tiefer” means deeper and deeper. It changes key after every six measures, but is strictly diatonic in between. “Fiddler” is strictly diatonic throughout. Since the tunes seemed Irish when they occurred to me, I harmonized them mostly in fourths and fifths. Then I needed a title. My own patronymic ancestors appear to have come from a suburb of Belfast call Ballymoney. Since “The Fiddler of Ballymoney” by Getty might raise unintended nuances, I moved my ancestors a few miles away to Ballykeel. “Ewig Du” (Forever You), which owes much to the spirit of Schubert, was set for piano some twenty years ago. So was “Ehemals” (Once Upon a Time) which is more in the style of a later waltz king.
Gordon Getty