Format : Score and Parts
/ Ensemble De Trombones
SKU: PR.114407260
UPC: 680160011209.
Ports of Call, a suite of five movements for two violins and guitar was written for the Trio Triento for their New York debut. Composed in the Summer of 1992, it was premiered in April 1993. 1992 was the 500th anniversary of the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain and, of course, Columbus' trip to America. To commemorate these important events, I was commissioned by organizations in 20 major cities to write an oratorio. The result was Ever Since Babylon. The musical material was greatly influenced by tunes from around the Mediterranean region. These Sephardic melodies took on treat meaning for me, and I took five of them and expanded them into these five pieces which are actually dances. I felt that the combination of two violins and guitar lent itself well as a vehicle for this music. The names of the cities are used because the tunes originated in these particular locations. Marseille, a typical provencale dance with naturally changing meters and a light, airy, touch. Alexandria, much more mysterious and languid, reflecting the heat and inertia of that glorious city in slow though sometimes steady movement. Salonika, a wild dance in typical Greek fashion celebrating a holiday with abandon. The whirling movement goes relentlessly from beginning to end. Haifa is represented by two beautiful chant-like pastoral tunes which introduce the beauty and luminous quality of this, one of the most beautiful parts in the Eastern Mediterranean. Valencia, the last, a tribute to medieval Spain. The music is a culmination of the influences of the three great cultures, Moslem, Christian, and Jewish, which flourished there for hundreds of years. It is an uplifting dance with just a tinge of sadness in the center, since the Golden Age of which the tune was a part, had come to a tragic end in 1492. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: BT.DHP-1104878-030
9x12 inches.
Andrew Watkin takes us on a three-movement musical journey in U.S. City Trip. Each movement explores a world famous street in three different American cities. Swing, blues and rock styles accompany us as we visit the theatres on Broadway in New York, the clubs on Rampart Street in New Orleansâ?? French Quarter and the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. U.S. City Trip ist eine musikalische Reise in drei Sätzen fu?r eine fu?nfstimmig variable Besetzung mit Schlagzeug, die den Zuhörer drei weltberu?hmte StraÃ?en in amerikanischen GroÃ?städten entdecken lässt: In den Stilen Swing, Blues und Rock geht es nacheinander nach New York zum Broadway, ins French Quarter in New Orleans zur Rampart Street und schlieÃ?lich nach Las Vegas, den schillernden Las Vegas Strip entlang. U.S. City Trip est un voyage au c?ur de trois rues historiques de trois grandes villes américaines. Première étape : New York et sa légendaire rue Broadway. Nous partons ensuite découvrir le Vieux Carré de la Nouvelle Orléans travers Rampart Street. Notre périple se termine Las Vegas et son extravagante artère principale, le « Vegas Strip ». La musique est un savoureux mélange aux tonalités swing, blues et rock.