Noisy Wheels Of Joy - HL04001966 | Music

Conceived as a raucous "opera buffo" style overture, this work from composer Eric Whitacre is the perfect way to start any concert. The beautiful theme and brilliant orchestration build to an exciting and breathtaking finale. Noisy Wheels of Joy was commissioned by the Band Composers Masterworks Consortium and premiered at the 2001 ABA convention by the UNLV Wind Symphony.

"Noisy Wheels of Joy is just pure, simple fun, written in the tradition of the great comic operatic overtures, and was designed to start the concert with a bang. The structure ist quite formal, but the three themes (love, adventure, and buffo) get thrown around the wind symphony with wild abandon."
(Eric Whitacre)