Besetzung: | Brass Band |
Komponist: | Alexander Comitas |
Grad:Schwierigkeitsgrad: | 5 (sehr schwer / Höchststufe) |
Genre: | Konzertwerk |
Dauer: | 03:00 |
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Format: | DIN A4 |
Verlag: | Star Music Publishing |
Kategorie: | Konzertwerke |
During the summer holidays of 2013, while in Georgia for the first time, I chanced upon a number of poems of Vazha Pshavela, an outstanding Georgian poet, born in the second half of the nineteenth century in the Northern Caucasus. I felt immediately attracted to a poem called "The Snake Eater" (1901), about the tragic fate of its hero Mindia, in the Northern mountainous region of Khevsureti. I started investigating and transcribing Khevsur folk music, which I found to possess the same stark beauty as Pshavelas poem. I now composed the beginning of what I would like to become a full scale ballet. This Festive Dance is the sixth movement of what I have composed so far. It is a Khevsur dance in honour of Mindia's return. I arranged it for the Cory Band and their conductor Philip Harper as a way to thank them for commissioning me to compose Audita Tremendi, a piece that had been on my wish-list for years.