| Instrumentation |
Baritone horn, Cornet, Euphonium, Horn, Trombone, Timpani, Drum set, Flugelhorn, Soprano Cornet |
| Description |
An original character piece based on The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher from the Beatrix Potter story of the same title. "Jeremy Fisher is a frog who lives in a "slippy-sloppy" house at the edge of a pond. One rainy day he collects worms for fishing, and sets off across the pond on his lily-pad boat. He plans to invite his friends for dinner if he catches more than five minnows. He encounters all sorts of setbacks to his goal, and escapes a large trout who tries to swallow him. He swims for shore, decides he will not go fishing again, and hops home." The music follows his encounter with the trout. Jeremy is represented by the lugubrious fugue theme in the basses, the river by the descending scale pattern and the trout by the descending triplet figures. Every part of the band gets to play something interesting and the music needs to be lively. |