Composition | Jazzboe Glenda

Mealtime at La Honda, a Suite for Woodwind Quintet

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn

This suite is dedicated to all the campers and my fellow staff at Hayward la Honda Music Camp! I composed this suite based on the sounds and songs that we hear together as a whole camp at mealtime, a thrice daily ritual.

Durring the pandemic we hosted a series of masterclasses online followed by a virtual campfire where this video was premiered. July 2020.

The melody from movement three is the not-so-happy birthday song that is a camp tradition. The kids go all out for it every time, with the banging on tables, screaming, and ironic gloom singing.

The last movement's primary melody is the blessing we sing before each meal, with a different staff member conducting each time.

Candy Monsters on the Loose!
Five piano parts and voices

Written for the Piano Tales digital musical, The Tale of the Currsed Student,
which I co-created at Oclef School.
(start at 30 seconds)

Spacewalk Blues

For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Vibraphone

This composition, which uses a modified 12-bar blues form, is based on the feeling of walking on the moon, or another low gravity planetary object, where each step is a joyful and mesmerizing bounce. This is a minimalist piece designed to allow the improvisers to open up, and to allow the audience to reach a meditative state.

My first arrangement of this song was for Chamber Jazz septet - Soprano voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, double bass, drums

I also created and performed an Oboe Quartet Arrangement (Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello) for a GroupMuse in San Francisco.

Live concert recording at Spectrum NYC, 2017.

Ode to Oclef
I composed the orcherstral (MIDI) music at the beginning and end of this video, and I wrote the song that the studet plays and sings.

Double Reed Christmas Medley

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Free Score and parts!

Melodies from nine Christmas songs are represented in this arrangement.
Can you listen and spot them all?

COMPOSITIONS & ARRANGEMENTS

Whitney the Whale

This is one of the first children's songs that I wrote when I first started teaching preschool music classes. It turns out to be a great beginner ukulele tune as well, so I composed this arrangement with woodwind trio for the 2nd grade ukulele ensemble I teach now through Sound Impact in Virginia. This was their dress rehearsal before performing for their elementry school classmates!