Murphy Music Press The Loop - Loggins-Hull - Concert Band (Flex)

• Composer/Author: HULL, ALLISON LOGGINS
• Instrumentation: CB FLEX
• Model # W-830

Composer: Allison Loggins-Hull
Format: Score and Parts
Instrumentation: Concert Band (Flex)

The Loop is inspired by Chicago and its promise to African-Americans who came to the city during The Great Migration. It opens with a train sound, representing the trains migrants took up to the city from places like Mississippi and other southern states. It also nods to Chicago's L train, which sounds throughout the city and circles a downtown area appropriately referred to as "The Loop". The piece is comprised of musical loops and also embodies the repetitive and rhythmic nature of factory labour, which the majority of black southerners found themselves doing once they made it to the big city - including my own grandfather who worked in a can factory. The piece has a driving and determined energy, much like the spirit that is needed when anyone migrates to a new home for a better life. - Allison Loggins-Hull
Duration: 5:00