Dance Suite (Wery)

Brett L. Wery

Brett L. Wery

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General Info

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Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

Wery's explains that his Dance Suite is akin to a Baroque dance suite, a once-popular form in which composers like Bach and Handel took popular dances like the courante, saraband, and gigue and transformed them into concert music. Wery does the same with the tango, waltz, polka, and fox trot. Each movement has a title; one of the movements is titled "Dog Day Tango" but it's a lazy tango that evokes the hottest days of summer. "It's indolent and slow and sags back into its lawn chair at the end," says Wery.

- Program Note by Joseph Dalton

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Performances

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• Capitol Region Wind Ensemble (Schenectady, N.Y.) (Brett Wery, conductor) - 20 May 2018

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Berceuse, for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble
• Dance Suite
• Facets of Pele
• Four World Variants
• Grendel Suite for Band
• Latin Dance for Saxophones
• Making the Darkness Conscious (2017)
• Mortals Gods and Heroes
• The Poor Soldier
• A Tough and Resilient Town

Resources

• L.Wery/ "Brett L. Wery." Society of Composers. Web. Accessed 28 May 2018
• Dalton, Joseph. "Capital Region Wind Ensemble to play at SCCC May 20." timesunion (Albany, N.Y.), 10 May 2018. Web. Accessed 28 May 2018