Besetzung: | Blasorchester |
Komponist: | David R. Holsinger |
Grad:Schwierigkeitsgrad: | 4 (schwer / Oberstufe) |
Genre: | Konzertwerk |
Dauer: | 04:20 |
Verlag: | TRN Music Publisher Inc. |
Kategorie: | Konzertwerke |
For those who seek to find great "spiritual dimension" to the title, I'm afraid I shall have to disappoint you the title actually comes from this composer's readings of the life of Russian composer, Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov. In the 1880's he was instrumental in a movement among Russian composers and musicians to turn from the extreme nationalistic tradition and create a new "style" of music based on broader, more eclectic methods and resources.
One account I perused mentioned his artistic struggle with the Council of Old Believers, the "Raskolniki" I was immediately taken with the phrase and this "Russian Dance for the Raskolniki" was born! (I will be quick to admit that my "hopak form" is totally unconventional, completely removed from the original dance form, and used in the title by way of poetic license! This admission hereby excuses my liability to the "closet" Russian Musicology fringe-groups found among band directors far and wide!)