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City
Rain
by Judith Zaimont
Release Date: September 2003
Ordering
information:
Score and parts: $50.00 (HL04002014)
Conductor score: $5.00 (HL04002015) |
In her tone poem City Rain, Judith
Zaimont captures the spirit and vitality of a summer
shower as it falls on a busy city street. This piece
draws a lively picture of a passing storm and is unified
by the jazz-like rhythmic motive based on the pattern
of the title words “city rain.”
About the Composer
Judith Lang Zaimont was born in Memphis, Tennessee,
and raised in New York in a musical family, beginning
her professional career (with her sister) in a teenage
duo piano team which performed, recorded, and appeared
on radio and TV. She began to compose at age 12 , and
her early music was recognized through prizes from the
National Federation of Music Clubs and BMI. Her formal
composition studies were accomplished primarily through
school programs (Queens College, CUNY; and Columbia
University), and with postgraduate orchestration study
with André Jolivet in Paris.
Zaimont is an internationally recognized
composer with an impressive catalogue of approximately
100 works in all genres, many of which are prize-winning
compositions. Her works have been programmed at Lincoln
Center, Carnegie Hall, and other major auditoriums on
three continents by such groups as Connecticut Opera,
Philadelphia Orchestra, Czech Radio Orchestra (Prague),
Baltimore Symphony, Kremlin Chamber Symphony (Russia),
Women's Philharmonic (San Francisco), Jacksonville Symphony
(Florida), Greenville Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina),
Nassau Symphony (New York), International Double Reed
Society, the Plymouth Music Series, and Dale Warland
Singers.
First prize awards for her symphonic
music include the First Prize-gold medal in the Gottschalk
Centenary competition (1970), the State of Liberty centennial
chamber orchestra competition (1986), and the 1995 McCollin
International Competition (for Symphony No. 1). More
recently, she was the 1999 Commissioned Composer at
University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and in 2001 served
as Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts
(FL).
Instrumentation
1-Conductor
1-Piccolo
3-Flute 1
3-Flute 2
2-Oboe (optional)
2-Bassoon (optional)
4-B flat clarinet 1
4-B flat clarinet 2
4-B flat clarinet 3
2-B flat Bass clarinet
2-E flat alto saxophone 1
2-E flat alto saxophone 2
2-B flat tenor saxophone
1-E flat baritone saxophone |
4-B
flat trumpet 1
4-B flat trumpet 2
4-B flat trumpet 3
4-F horn (optional)
4-Trombone 1
4-Trombone 2
2-Baritone B.C.
2-Baritone T.C.
4-Tuba
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2-Percussion 1: bongos, tom toms,
gong
2-Percussion 2: triangle, rainstick (optional), marimba
2-Percussion 3: sand blocks, snare drum, glockenspiel
2-Percussion 4: maracas, suspended cymbal, bass drum
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City Rain is
a part of BandQuest Advanced 
