PROGRAM NOTES:  Lower Wacker Drive

When I was asked by Kelly Via to compose a piece for the Windy City Flute Orchestra to be performed at the 2014 National Flute Association Convention in Chicago, IL, I knew I wanted to draw inspiratipon from one of my favorite films "The Blues Brothers", which is set in and around Chicago. I decided to write a piece in a jazz/blues style, and i wanted to take the title of the piece from an element in the film. The title "Lower Wacker Drive" comes from a piece of dialogue, during the long closing car chase: 
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            Elwood: This is definitely Lower Wacker Drive! If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable
                           Richard J. Daley Plaza! 
            Jake: That's where they got that Picasso.
            Elwood: Yep. 


Composed for the Windy City Flute Orchestra - Kelly Via, conductor 2014 National Flute Association Convention, Chicago, IL 

--- Peter Senchuk