Composer-conductor Brooke Richey leads woodwind players through a film cue about a mother racing to save her daughter. The piece shifts between tempos: 64 BPM, then 115, 90 at bar 27, and 117 at bar 36, with meters like 5/4 conducted as 3+2. Players work through rhythms, dynamics, and conducting cues to match the scene's emotional urgency.
Brooke Richey.
It is Brooke.
Hello, my name is Brooke Richey. This is 16M11. This is the scene in the film where the mother character is trying to save her daughter and there's an imminent threat email sent to her and so she She's running to go save this year, and that she created to save her daughter. A few things, we have a few tempo changes. We start off at 64 BPM through bar 5. You'll hear on— you'll hear beat 3, and it goes quickly into 4th rolling clicks. So it's going to be beat 1, 2, 3, 4, and 115 BPM. Our next tempo change is in bar 27, and that will be 90 BPM. Just listen for beat 2, watch for beat 2. Our next tempo change is in bar 36, and that's 117 BPM, and again, it's a quick one, so watch for beat 2. 1, 2, 3, 4. And that will carry us out through the finish. The 5/4 bars will be conducted in 3 plus 2. And is there any questions before we get started?
Okay.
This is very independent, Alice.
6/3, and 2, 3, 1, 2.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2. Are you guys hearing the sound?
Yes.
Yeah.
Hold it with your finger.
All right.
Um, it's the same figure as the last, just quicker.
Any questions? Okay, 6, 3, and— 1, 2, 3, 1, 2.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2.
Yes.
Does it seem like my rhythm in bar 45 lines up with everyone else's?
Right.
That was intentional. That is intentional.
Okay, all right. Brooke, I have a question as well. In measure 5, I have forte on the fermata. Am I supposed to be crescendoing to that, or is that a subito forte on that fermata?
We're doing a subito forte.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Any other questions?
More notes?
Let's just try it. Okay, sounds good. All right, 6, 3, and 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. Okay, thank you. Sorry.
It's alto flute, so it's in G.
Okay, so that's what you're hearing.
Yeah.
Could you pick up your flute? Not alto flute.
Yes.
Yeah.
Put the alto flute down and just play flute throughout.
Okay.
Okay. And those are the sounds that you wanted.
Okay.
Got it.
Anything else?
Okay.
Again, from the top, please. 6, 3, and 2, 3, 1, 2.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay, we're coming in at 20. 4/3 into 28.
4/3 and—
Is that it? Is that all?
Okay.
Take your time. Thank you, everyone.
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