Stephenson - SCRAM!, for full orchestra (score video realization)

SCRAM!, realization for full orchestra

SCRAM! was commissioned by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band; Colonel Jason K. Fettig, Director as a work for solo trumpet and concert band. A piano reduction was later created, and the version for trumpet and chamber orchestra was commissioned by Mary Elizabeth Bowden.

SCRAM! program notes:
A fun encore for my friends at the US “President’s Own” Marine Band. I have nothing but the highest regard for Amy McCabe, the dedicatee of the solo part, and Colonel Jason K. Fettig, who asked me to compose the piece.

The piece was composed for the band’s October, 2018 tour of the Midwest (including a stop in my home city of Chicago), and is meant to “chase” Amy off the stage after having performed another work of mine: The Storyteller. Because the latter piece ends quietly, I imagined an encore to quickly show Amy’s virtuosic skills before she was to hasten back to the principal trumpet chair; hence the name “Scram!”

Jim Stephenson; July 15, 2018