ADRENALINE

CITY
by ADAM GORB
ADRENAL|NE CIW is a concert overture inspired by both the stress and vibrancy of
twenty-first century city life. lt is in sonata form and is notable for a time signature in 10/8.
The harsh and dissonant opening passage is contrasted by a mellow second subject
theme in thesa<ophones. The percussion cometothefore in the middlesection, and atthe
close of the work the harmonic tension reaches an exhilarating breaking point before
resolving on the tonal centre of A. The composer is indebted to Steve Grimo of the US Air
Force Academy Band for organising the consodium that commissioned the work, The
bands involved were: the USAF Academy Band (Lt Col Steven Grimo, Commander), the
US Military Academy Band (Lt Col Timothy J Holtan, Commander), the USAF Band of Flight
(Lt Col Alan Sierichs, Commander), the USAF Band of Liberty (Lt Col larry H Lang,
Commander), the USAF Heritage of America Band (Maj Douglas Monroe, Commander),
the USAF Band of the Golden West (Capt Michael Meneh, Commander) and the USAF
Band of Mid America (Capt Donald Schofield, Commander).

Duration: 8'15"

Adam Gorb was born in Cardiff, Wales, and studied music at Cambridge University and
composition at the FtoyalAcademy of Music, London, where he graduated with the highest
honours, including the Principal's Prize in 1993. His music is performed, broadcast and
recorded world-wide. His concert band composition Metropol's won the 1994 Walter
Beeler Memorial Prize in the USA, and the solo piano lnterlude and Postlude the 1995
Purcell Composition Prize. Kol Simcha. a ballet, has been given overfifty pedormances by
the Rambert Ballet Company and bothAwayday and )?ddlsh Dances for concert band have
received countless performances allovertheworld. Adam has received commissionsfrom
such prestigious performing bodies as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Maggini Quartet, the Tokyo KoseiWind Ensemble and
the Zephyr Ensemble of Great Britain. He is the Head of the School of Composition and
Contemporary Music atthe Royal Northern College of Music.

ADRENALINE CIW
is recorded by the
Royal Northern College of Music
Wind Orchestra
on Polyphonic CD - QPRM 15'lD
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