SKU: CL.012-3784-01
Fasten your seatbelts and hang on; you are about to go on the most exciting Night Ride of your life! Rhythmic and full of energy, this piece has a fresh and innovative sound. The stark musical contrasts and the dark, foreboding middle section will make this work a favorite for concert and festival use. Solid scoring will help ensure success with smaller ensembles. Lots of interesting percussion parts add to the effect. Your audience will be reaching for the grab handles!
SKU: CL.026-4876-00
Fasten your seatbelts and hang on; you are about to go on an exciting Night Ride Through Metropolis. Rhythmic and full of energy, this music has a fresh and innovative sound. The stark musical contrasts and the dark, foreboding middle section will make this work a favorite for concert and festival use. This version, especially tailored for the Barnhouse Build-A-Band series, guarantees success with even the most limited and awkward of instrumentations. Your audience will be reaching for the grab handles! A fantastic musical ride!
About Build-A-Band Series
The Build-A-Band Series provides educational and enjoyable music for bands with incomplete or unbalanced instrumentation. Written using just four or five parts (plus percussion), these effective arrangements will work with any combination of brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments as long as you distribute the parts so that each of the five parts is covered. All of the publications in the Build-A-Band Series have been arranged to be playable with any instrumentation as long as each part is used: 1st Part, 2nd Part, 3rd Part, 4th Part, and Bass Part. (Please note: In some of these arrangements the 4th Part, and the Bass Part are the same, making it possible to play those arrangements with only 4 parts.)
SKU: CL.026-4876-01
SKU: CL.012-3784-75
SKU: CL.026-4876-75
SKU: IS.PN7295EM
ISBN 9790365072958.
Light the fire, James. We’ll take our digestive by the crackling of the hearth. Such were the thoughts that came to mind as I started listening to Guy Van Nueten’s new record. Because, yes, there is a certain aristocracy to this music. There’s the feeling of autumn and you immediately long to warm yourself on the sounds that issue from Van Nueten's bony fingers. But it could just as well be a car ride through soft rain at nightfall, where trees become freakish phantoms, and here and there a villa looms like a light beacon. Pacman is a record that makes you hunt for images, films you have seen before, feelings you have known and wish to relive, like a somewhat forbidden fruit, a secret pleasure. Melancholy? Absolutely. A vague sadness to make a person purr like a contented cat? Certainly. Yet at the same time, Van Nueten is cunning. While ensuring that his music pleases you, at the end of some compositions he’ll suddenly come up with a theme that he’ll stop abruptly, so that the notes remain hanging like snapshots of aerial acrobats in action. It is also investigative music as if Guy himself does not wish to know just where he will finish up. There is a stubbornness to it, an elegant fight perhaps between composer and pianist. It pursues you – exactly like a Pacman, in fact, chomping away at digital pieces of your heart. Yet it never seems to dissolve into thin air: time and again, right from the first listen, he makes you long to hear more. It is music that should protect a person like a secret, like an illegal fire in a forest that warms your hands and fills your head with dreams. It smells like cedar, this piano music. Or like a nice cigar offered to you by the imaginary James, who whispers: The fire is crackling, sir. Just as you like it. At which point the enchantment begins all over again.
