Bear Valley Fanfares,
Bear Wald Septet,
& Chamber Symphonies
No. 14, 15 & 16

Richard Burdick with young Oscar
in Bear Valley 2004Scene Near Bear Valley 2004

Scene Near Bear Valley 2004
with exhaust trails from airplane

Released: January 18, 2025

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Program Notes:

Starting in 1992 Richard played horn for the Bear Valley Music Festival.

He was writing a fanfare for each concert for a number of years From around 1994-1998. These fanfares were played near the end of the intermission to call the audience back to the performance tent at the Bear Valley Music Festival. The fanfares ended when I wrote one using a 12-tone-row. The timpani player went around broadcasting how funny he thought the idea of a 12-tone-row fanfare was, and the somehow ended the fanfares.

1) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 1, Op. 116: No. 1. Stately (Five Horns)
Aug 5, 1993

2) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 2, Op. 116: No. 2. Stately (Five Horns) Aug 5, 1993

3) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 3, Op. 116: No. 3. Bachiana (Brass Septet) Aug 5, 1993

4) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 4, Op. 116: No. 4. The Big Dipper (Trumpet & Two Horns) This uses the shape of the Big Dipper for the "melody"

5) Bear Wald Septet for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello& Double Bass, Op. 325

Written within I Ching Scales 38-51 and suddenly change to 44-63

This work is described as "Another wild ride in a sort of expressionist attention-deficit flow that has an strong happy ending (but has hard rhythms for the performers.)

Richard Burdick writes: "This work was written after I performed the Grand Septet (1828) by Franz Berwald. There is a lot of music written for this ensemble . . I like it very much."

"My work was hard to write, I started it a left it along quite a few times before it was complete. I like the uplifting ending."

Movements:

I. Moderato
II. Slow
III. Menuet
IV. Allegro and legato

6) Bear Valley Fanfare, Op. 116: No. 5. 12 Tone Fanfare (Trumpet, Horn & Bass Drum) The infamous 12 Tone Fanfare. August 1993

7) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 6, Op. 116: No. 6. Stately (Four Horns) August 1994

8) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 7, Op. 116: No. 7. Fast & Loud (Trombone & Tuba) August 2, 1994

9) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 8, Op. 116: No. 8. Big (Six Brass) August 1994

10) Chamber Symphony No. 14 in D minor
for flute, oboe clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, strings & 2 percussionists, Op. 314

in I Ching Scale 44-63 (d minor)
with the trio of the Menuete in 34-24

This is a "Little Symphony" that is only 11:15 long. It is small in instrument size too; It could be played by group of only 13 players including the two percussionists.

This was mostly written in November of 2021 but was completed in January 2022.

Mostly in the key of D minor, and it's somewhat in Mr. Burdick's attention defect orchestration style.

I. Moderato
II. Adagio
III. Minuete
IV. Minuete II
IV. "Take it Easy" - Allegro

The percussion is:
1) Snare Drum & temple blocks
2) Drum Set

11) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 9, Op. 116: No. 9. Fast & Loud, (Trumpet & horn) August 1994

12) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 10, Op. 116: No. 10. Pentatonic (Three Horns) August 1994

13) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 11, Op. 116: No. 11. Fast (Three Horns) August 1994

14) Bear Valley Fanfare, Op. 116: No. 12. Dorian (Trombone & Tuba) August 1994

15) Chamber Symphony No.15
for 11 players: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, strings, Op. 328

My pursuit of beauty continues

A work for 11 players is a "undectet" (Latin)
or entekatet (Greek).

A beautiful first movement with a rousing final in this "Symphony" for 11 players

In Four movements:
1. Andante
2. Allegro
3. Menuet
4. Allegro

16) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 13, Op. 116: No. 13. Stately (Trombone & Tuba) August 1994

17) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 14, Op. 116: No. 14. Maestoso (Three Horns) August 1994

18) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 15, Op. 116: No. 15. Loud with Full Dark Tone (Three Horns) August 1994

19) Bear Valley Fanfare No. 16, Op. 116: No. 16. After Pomp & Circumstances (trumpet & horn) August 9, 1998 for Brian Anderson

20) Chamber Symphony No. 16, Op. 329 for piano, trumpet, and wind quintet with strings

A beautiful work.

Mostly written in I Ching Scale 45-37

I. Moderato
II. Like andante
III. Waltz
IV. Allegro (legato)

Performed by:
Richard Burdick's horn & swam ensemble

Recorded at A=432 Hz

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