Symphony No. 1 for Wind Band – Solitude Standing

The two movements in this symphony have quite similar structure and length, and this is no coincidence.

As a composer, I try to create two musical stories that comes from the same starting point and thought, but they sound and feel different.

Music often describes something you can´t say in words. This composer stands in the middle of the symphony, here personalized as trombone solo (or euphonium) and tries “Solitude Standing” to make a bridge between the two parts.

Stig Nordhagen