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Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 4 SKU: BT.AMP-002-140 Composed by Philip Sparke. Anglo Music Midway Series. Concert Piece. Score Only. Composed 2001. 42 pages. Anglo Music Press #AMP 002-140. Published by Anglo Music Press (BT.AMP-002-140). The Hanover Wind Symphony, New Jersey, USA was founded in 1984 by its conductor Peter Boor. He commissioned HANOVER FESTIVAL to celebrate the band’s 15th Birthday and the first performance took place on October 27th 1999. The piece starts with a solemn brass fanfare. Woodwinds join in and the music subsides into an expressive chorale. A climax is reached and the fanfare returns. Trumpets introduce an explosive vivo section, characterised by an energetic theme from the horns and low clarinets. A bridge passage with strong brass chords leads to a playful section that introduces a legato central theme under woodwind figures. This is taken up by the full band, the playfulmusic returns and the original horn tune is reintroduced. Finally the opening fanfare returns, this time accompanied by music from the vivo section, until a fast and furious coda closes the work. In diesem Werk kann man gut erkennen, wie aus einer einfachen Idee eine vollständige Komposition entsteht. Einer langsamen, fanfarenähnlichen Einleitung folgt ein schneller, virtuoser Mittelteil, der hohe Ansprüche an die Ausführenden stellt. Klangvolle Themen und eine fesselnde Instrumentierung kennzeichnen diesen Abschnitt. Das Werk endet ebenso würdevoll, wie es angefangen hat. Hanover Festival ist als Ouvertüre gedacht, kann aber selbstverständlich an jeder beliebigen Stelle in ein Konzertprogramm eingebaut werden.