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The Queens Gate Trio, Performing Spider Suite by Jenni Brandon, Placed 1st At The Charleston International Music Competition
May 15, 2022
The Queens Gate Trio, performed “Spider Suite” by Jenni Brandon, and placed 1st at The Charleston International Music Competition. The competition took place May 1-15, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina. Their performance of “Spider Suite” is viewable on YouTube at Sydney Scherer, Roddy Terrell, Kassandra Ormsby – Spider Suite | 20th Century Music Competition – YouTube
The Queens Gate Trio is a new and unique group. The trio is from Charlotte and Greensboro, NC. They actively perform throughout North Carolina. The group strives to be an advocate for new music, having commissioned new works for flute, clarinet and bassoon as an organization, with plans on commissioning more!
“Spider Suite” for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon tells the story of the adventures of a spider and his daily activities, from spinning webs, capturing bugs, and beginning again.
We are first introduced to the world of spiders through the fast and many-legged theme in “Along came a spider…,” full of skittering, racing, and lurking. In movement two a young spider takes flight – baby spiders will spin a balloon out of silk and fly away from their mother’s web to embark on their own journey, letting the wind take them wherever it might. Our spider lands gently and immediately begins to make his web in “Spinning Song.” Once the web is spun, it is time to wait for dinner to come along. Our spider dances “A Wicked Waltz,” laughing manically as he waits for the “Happy Bug (unsuspecting)” to get stuck in his web. As the bug flies and sings, he gets increasingly stuck in the web – listen as the timbral trills in the oboe become more and more frequent. In the final movement the spider reflects on his day (flying, spinning, and hunting…), tearing down his web, as spiders often do, to begin again the next day.
Movement I: Along came a spider
Movement II: The Spider’s Flight (solo bassoon)
Movement III: Spinning Song
Movement IV: A Wicked Waltz: The Spider and the Happy Bug (unsuspecting)
Movement V. The end of the day…begin again
Spider Suite for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon was commissioned by the California Association of Professional Music Teachers and was premiered by the Vientos Trio at the CAPMT state conference in February 2010 at the Pacific Palms Resort.
“Spider Suite” is available for purchase from Jenni’s website at Spider Suite – oboe, clarinet, bassoon by Jenni Brandon