Ford-Steel Jungle, The (SP)-Steel drums/DS/P/SATB Choir

The Steel Jungle was commissioned by the Denton High School Chorale, directed by Ann Smith and was premiered successively at the 2003 TMEA Conference in San Antonio, Texas. However the work was never published. 20 years later Ann Smith asked Mark Ford to revise the work for the 2023 North Texas Metroplex Children’s Choir Concert in Dallas’ Meyerson Concert Hall, and the work received its 2nd premiere on January 28, 2023.

The Steel Jungle is dedicated to those who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Additional Information:

• Number of players: 6 + choir
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Instrumentation
  • Lead, Double Second, Cello, and Bass pans
  • Drum set, shaker
  • Congas, suspended cymbal
  • SATB choir