Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Armer Columbus
Overture and Finale from the Opera
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Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Armer Columbus
Overture and Finale from the Opera
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Editor Jacques Claessens
- Series Baton Orchestral
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- Edition Score
- Publisher Baton Music
- Order no. BTM454SC
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Description:
As a contribution to the opera "Armer Columbus" by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic "Entr"acte" in c minor (Allegretto poco moderato), also known as the Overture (although it appears before the sixth scene of the opera) followed by a hilariously noisy "Finale" (Moderato - Andantino - Allegro) with mock American dance-music, a parade of American sailors (presumably on ships in New York harbour). Shostakovich's contributions were intended to overcome a couple of dramatic weaknesses in Dressel's score and to underline more strongly the Communist politics of this idea.