Commissioned by: Kew Wind Orchestra, with funds from ‘Awards for All’ from the UK National Lottery
Duration: 10:15
Instrumentation: 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 clarinet in Eb, 3 clarinets in Bb, 1 alto clarinet in Eb, 1 bass clarinet, 2 alto sax, 1 tenor sax, 1 baritone sax, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 euphonium, 1 tuba, timpani, drumkit, percussion, xylophone
Performance Details: Chiswick London
Date: July 4, 2002
Performers: Kew Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Spencer Down

Second Performance: BASWBE, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Date: April 13, 2003
Performers: Kew Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Spencer Down

Programme Notes:
This musical work for full complement symphonic wind band, is inspired by and descriptive of Bradford born David Hockney's vivid, epic, and multi-perspective 1980’s canvas, Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, which is over six metres in length, and exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Hockney explained that the word “Drive” in the title was “not the name of the road but the act of driving” along a route he came to know well, when he daily took it, to and from his then studio in Southern California. Every twist and turn and new viewpoint, yields new vistas in electric blues, reds, greens, yellows.....and the music attempts to capture this eclectic and vibrant palette of ever changing landscape, as it charts every twist and turn on this "drive" along one of the West Coast’s most celebrated highways. The piece was commissioned from Michael Omer by Kew Wind Orchestra with funds from the National Lottery Awards for All scheme

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