Randall Standridge · (not) Alone (Grade 2.5, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score (click Here) • • • Why I wrote (not) Alone Many who live with mental health conditions experience a profound sense of isolation. Discussing these issues and more so, identifying as someone who lives with them, has been extremely taboo in…
Randall Standridge · Santa the Barbarian and the Pirates of the North Pole (Gr 1.5-2, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Santa the Barbarian and the Pirates of the North Pole This feisty and festive holiday work finds our titular anti-hero taking to the seas to spread his…
Randall Standridge · A Christmas Carol (Grade 2.5, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is brought to life in this engaging attacca suite by composer Randall Standridge. A narrator guides the audience through the story of Ebenezer Scrooge as he…
Randall Standridge · The Clapping Song (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About The Clapping Song What do you get when you mix symphonic motivic development, a touch of a country hoedown, and a hint of jazz, all tied together with clapping from the ensemble? You get…
Randall Standridge · Palette (Grade 2.5, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Palette Drawing on his background in visual art, composer Randall Standridge creates an impression of the various colors on the color wheel in this imaginative suite of miniatures for young ensembles. Electric Yellow buzzes with electricity,…
Randall Standridge · Columbia (Grade 4, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Columbia Named after both “Lady Columbia” (the personification of liberty) and the city of Columbia, Missouri, this exciting new work by Randall Standridge is sure to be an audience favorite. Hints of Americana, quartal harmony, soaring…
Randall Standridge · Autumn Light (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Autumn Light This emotional new work from Randall Standridge serves both as an illustration of the Autumn months and a reflection on mortality. The colorful orchestration alternates between hopeful and bittersweet harmonies as motives and…
Randall Standridge · F-1 (Grade 1.5-2, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About F-1 Racers…start your engines! This driving new work from Randall Standridge combines staccato articulations, dramatic dynamic changes, and unbridled energy with accessible ranges and rhythmic vocabulary to create a work that sounds far more challenging than…
Randall Standridge · Blue Sky Horizon (Grade 2, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Blue Sky Horizon Uplifting and bursting with energy, Blue Sky Horizon is a work that is very personal to the composer. Written on a day when he came out of a long depression episode,…
Randall Standridge · River Valley Overture (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About River Valley Overture An homage to some of his favorite band composers of the past, Randall Standridge wrote River Valley Overture with the intent that is sound like it was from the heyday of…