Welcome Home!! (2024)
Duration: 4 minutes
Instrumentation: 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and 3 percussionists
Commissioner: San Diego Symphony, in celebration of the re-opening of the Jacobs Music Center
Performance History
9/28/2024 Players of the San Diego Symphony w/ Rafael Payare (director), San Diego, CA
"... a spirited piece with driving rhythms ..." Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune
"... ebullient wash of fluttering themes ..." Ken Herman, San Diego Story
Program Notes
“Welcome Home!!” is a four-minute fanfare to celebrate the re-opening of the San Diego Symphony’s valued Jacobs Music Center after its renovation.
While maintaining the piece’s festive nature, I combined musical styles associated with the notion of home, including folk and pop music of my native Korea, Indigenous San Diegan music (which happens to be similar to Venezuelan Joropo music), and funk jazz (which is familiar to most of the audience). I hope the piece highlights the new hall’s fantastic acoustics and the brilliant musicianship of the San Diego Symphony’s players, in addition to welcoming the audience to their new home!!
Instrumentation: 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and 3 percussionists
Commissioner: San Diego Symphony, in celebration of the re-opening of the Jacobs Music Center
Performance History
9/28/2024 Players of the San Diego Symphony w/ Rafael Payare (director), San Diego, CA
"... a spirited piece with driving rhythms ..." Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune
"... ebullient wash of fluttering themes ..." Ken Herman, San Diego Story
Program Notes
“Welcome Home!!” is a four-minute fanfare to celebrate the re-opening of the San Diego Symphony’s valued Jacobs Music Center after its renovation.
While maintaining the piece’s festive nature, I combined musical styles associated with the notion of home, including folk and pop music of my native Korea, Indigenous San Diegan music (which happens to be similar to Venezuelan Joropo music), and funk jazz (which is familiar to most of the audience). I hope the piece highlights the new hall’s fantastic acoustics and the brilliant musicianship of the San Diego Symphony’s players, in addition to welcoming the audience to their new home!!