Joyful

In 2010 Eric Stumacher, director of the Keene Chamber Orchestra, asked Gordon to compose a piece of music to be played by that orchestra and about 60 elementary, middle and high school string players (mostly violins). The challenge was to write something at was accessible to young musicians, but which also allowed for more complex components featuring members of the orchestra. The performance was not recorded. What we have here is a synthesized arrangement of the score played from Sibelius (music composition software). It is therefore lacking in the audio quality that would be provided by a regular orchestra, but might be appreciated listened to with a grain of salt (and decent speakers). 

Download the score.

Listen (7 minutes)