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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: George Gershwin Arranger: Philip Littlemore
Duration 6.20
Originally entitled Rumba, the Cuban Overture was a was written some time following a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana in February 1932. The overture is dominated by Caribbean rhythms and Cuban native percussion, with a wide spectrum of instrumental colour and technique. It is a rich and exciting work with complexity and sophistication, illustrating the influence of Cuban music and dance. Although it received it’s première under the title Rumba, it was renamed Cuban Overture three months later at a benefit concert conducted by Gershwin at the Metropolitan Opera to avoid giving audience the idea that it was simply a novelty item. The new title provided, as the composer stated, “a more just idea of the character and intent of the music”.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer / arrangers: H. Snell, J. Strauss
This brilliant 2 minute romp has been recorded by the Desford Band; and been in 5 entertainment victories.
Howard Snell writes : Johann Strauss the Younger was not only a composer of unique genius, but an entrepreneur and workaholic of equal status. Unlike most of the global stars today's pop music, he wrote his own music rather than planting his own name on others' work, was an organiser of genius, and an indefatigable traveller before it became 'easy' in any way at all. From his opera Ritter Passman, this whirlwind czardas would have been thrown off in a couple of hours at most.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer / arranger: Jacob De Hann
Normally £63.00 - only £56.95 in our SALE - Limited stock
Suite about the Sioux Indians -
(i) The Great Spirit (ii) Buffalo Hunting (iii) Smoking the Pipe (iv) The Ghost Dance (v) Pilgrims at Wounded Knee.
Duratio 8'10"
Commissioned by “Muziekvereniging Voiharding, Huissen (the Netherlands) on the occasion of its 50th anniversaiy — Henk Hesseling, conductor The Dakota (or Sioux) Indians from the American states North and South Dakota are the central figures in this composition. The work consists of five movements in which the culture and history of these Indians have been portrayed. In a few movements, Jacob de Haan has used an old Indian melody from South Dakota.
1. The Great Spirit The culture of the Dakota Indians was related to the earth and spirit world. They believed that the Great Spirit created the earth by casting a black ball onto the water, and that from a second ball, he created all living things.
2. Buffalo Hunting To gallop up to a powerful buffalo required skill and courage. Yet men looked forward to the chance to prove themselves in the hunt.
3. Smoking the Pipe The pipe was the symbol of peace and was used as such between men and nations. Smoking the pipe stood for a bond of good faith, and a holy man smoking the pipe would be in communion with the Great Spirit.
4. The Ghost Dance This religious dance of lost hopes was based on prayer, dance, and song. In 1890, the soldiers engaged the Ghost Dancers at a place called Wounded Knee.
5. Pilgrims at Wounded Knee The tragedy of Wounded Knee is very painful to the Indians. Many still make the pilgrimage to the sacred, windblown hilltop where so many innocent people were killed.
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