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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-01-05 16:26
I'm wondering why this piece isn't performed more often. Stravinsky creates great rhythmic tension without using his characteristic metric changes in it and it is a work of great vitality. It's not jazz, nor does irt.pretend to be. It's simply a really unique piece.
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2020-01-05 21:38
I agree with Liquorice...the instrumentation is a bit odd - basically a jazz band with doubling, plus a french horn and harp?
I personally have a difficult time figuring out where a person would use this piece. The first two movements sound like they'd fit the standard 1950s/60s crime drama as background/tension music...but then the third movement doesn't fit.
I think it would take a very specific performance group to seek playing this. (Sort of like the Stu Brown group playing the "Twisted Toons" music Stu Brown's Group Playing "The Penguin".)
Fuzzy
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-01-05 21:40
It is more a "wind ensemble" work requiring an awesome solo clarinet. I recall this being performed while I was at DePaul by our wind ensemble and guest soloist.........John Bruce Yeh.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-01-06 01:12
Of course! a symphony orchestra hasn't got 5 saxes. It was written for the Woody Herman band and to my knowledge, after a few first performanes, the Woody Herman band never played it again. I suppose the audiences at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas weren't interested.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-01-06 11:32
I've only ever played this in concerts including 'Prelude, Fugue and Riffs', 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Bacchus on Blue Ridge'.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-01-06 13:31
Chris P: This would go very well with the Billy Strayhorn arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue. It's fantastic stuff and for exactly the same orchestration (jazz big band).
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