Shelley Hanson
Tocata & La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla
from Islas y Montañas
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Shelley Hanson
Tocata & La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla
from Islas y Montañas
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Shelley Hanson
- Series Windependence
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BHI6101987
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Description:
Shelley Hanson originally composed Islas y Montañas for orchestra. Tocata is the first movement and functions as a fanfare or introduction. It features the entire ensemble clapping rhythmic patterns based on the Cuban 3/2-clave rhythm. It's a great way to get the crowd ready for La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla, originally the fourth movement from Islas y Montañas. It is beautifully transcribed here for concert band. It is a musical rumination about Cuban composer Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906-1940) who studied with Nadia Boulanger but was later assassinated while presiding as a judge. It opens with a haunting English horn cadenza (alternate cueing provided) followed by harmonic shifts, intense soli writing and driving rhythms that sweep through the ensemble.