Soar (Penman)
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Notes
Soar is perhaps the first serious composition that I wrote for saxophone and piano. Originally composed for a competition run by the Clarinet and Saxophone Society, Soar also went on to become my first composition published by Saxtet Publications, with whom I now have over twenty publications.
Soar tells the story of an injured eagle who has been kept in captivity before being released back into the wild. In the opening material we hear the bird lamenting its loss of freedom and voicing its frustration. After this brief introduction, however, we hear the eagle instantly return to its natural state, flying freely and instinctively enjoying dancing in and out of the patterns of the wind whilst it travels on its journey to rejoin its eyrie.
