What We Do Is Secret  ('11)   21'00"
[concerto for brass quintet and wind ensemble]
Barlow Endowment commission for Triton Brass and the wind ensembles of The Boston Conservatory, MIT, and the University of Miami.
Winner, The International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011.
Honorable Mention, the 2012 Red Note Festival Competition for Wind Ensemble Music.
Aaron Copland Fund Recording grant, 2013
Winner, Global Music Award, 2014
Third Prize, The American Prize, 2013
Released on The Unheard Music: New American Music for Wind Ensemble and Brass CD, Albany Records (2013).

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The Madding Crowd  ('07)   18'30"
brass quintet
Meet The Composer commission for Triton Brass
Premiered at the 2007 Tanglewood Institute.
Performed numerous times around the country. Spanish Brass Luur Metalls has performed it numerous times, including at the International Brass Chamber Music Festival, the XVIII Ciclo de Música Contemporánea de Málaga, Spain, the ENSEMS International Festival of Contemporary Music, Valencia, Spain, the Festival Nacional de Metales, Bogata, Columbia, and The Lieksa Brass Festival, Finland.
Also included on The Unheard Music CD (Albany Records, 2013).
view score


Intro


Part 1.


Part 2.


Part 3.


Part 4.


Part 5.


Glaze  ('00)  10'
brass quintet & drum kit
Written for and recorded by the Atlantic Brass Quintet & percussionist Robert Schulz
Released on the Sixth Species CD (Albany Records, 2008)

III. Glaze 3


IV. Glaze 4


V. Glazed


REVIEWS

"The Madding Crowd is a new, major work for brass quintet. ...complex and difficult but very worthwhile."

"Smart, compelling music that gives strong hints of a punk-band past. ... [Glaze] offers a sequence of short, contrasting 'aural snapshots', freely mixing melancholy lyricism with flashy, brilliant passages for the instrumentalists. Glaze in particular offers a chaotic collision of exuberant populist style with a bluesy edge and infectious punch."

Gramophone Magazine, Annual Awards issue.

"McLoskey produced what I believe to be the only truly significant and meaningful work for solo Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble composed to date. What We Do Is Secret is sophisticated, gripping, abstract yet engaging, sometimes hauntingly beautiful, and filled with virtuosity.

This is American music at its best - imaginative, challenging, powerful, and direct."

Eric Hewitt (Chair of Woodwinds at The Boston Conservatory; Director, TBC Wind Ensemble, Sinfonietta, & New Music Festival)

"WOWWOWWOWWOW!!!!!!! I was paralyzed with fascination! Amazing playing, fantastic piece. Loved it from the first note!  ...it's the most exciting work for brass I've heard in long time!"

John Manning (founding member of Atlantic Brass Quintet, Professor of tuba at The University of Iowa, former faculty at Tanglewood.

To visit the composer's website: www.lansingmcloskey.com