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Los Caminos de Lengerke
Subtitle: Fantasía
General Info
Year: 2011
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Piles Latinoamerica
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Blocks
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Glockenspiel
- Gong
- Guache
- Guasá
- Hi-Hat
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tamboura
- Tambourine
- Timbales
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibra-slap
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In his composition Los Caminos de Lengerke (The Roads of Lengerke), written in 2010 through a grant awarded by the provincial government of Santander (Colombia), Ruben Darío Gómez, under the pretext of relating historical events, makes a foray into new idioms and sound effects that had not been present in his previous works. As a result, in a formal perspective he achieves an ambitious and complex score, revealing less known facets of his musical inventiveness. The work is based on the life of Geo – actually, Georg Ernst – von Lengerke (1827-1882), a German engineer and businessman who arrived to Santander during the mid-nineteenth century, settling there to engage in the exploitation and trade of cinchona bark; he came to own large stretches of land, developing a network of bridges and roads that served to his commercial activity. Although he amassed a considerable fortune, Lengerke's last years were marked by economical collapse due to a drop in prices of cinchona bark and his abuse of liquor. This character, which inspired the novel La Otra Raya del Tigre (The Other Tiger Stripe), by Pedro Gómez Valderrama, died at his home in the town of Zapatoca (Santander), which is also the homeland to the composer Ruben Darío Gómez.
As the composer annotates, it is a work "dedicated to recreating and showing the course" of this character. And he adds, "it contains elements that connect his origin, the impact of his participation in the region, different roads that were built, tragic aspects and particularities of the historical context of the epoch..."
- Program Note from publisher
Los Caminos de Lengerke (The Pathways of Lengerke) is a piece that makes reference to a network of pathways located in Gómez Prada’s home region, in the department of Santander. The name comes from Geo Von Lengerke (1827-1882), a German businessman and traveler who settled in the region in 1852 and promoted the trade of tobacco, coffee, and quinine. Lengerke also propelled the reparation of old pathways and bridges and the construction of new ones, cutting down across the mountain range to find the fertile Magdalena Valley and reach the river ports open to multiple trade connections. The piece suggests imaginary long-lasting journeys of peasants and merchants throughout the pathways, and insinuates a metaphorical parallel between those legendary journeys and traveling along time during the course of life.
- Program Note by the Javeriana University Symphonic Band concert program, 21 December 2013
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia) Symphonic Band (Patricia Vanegas Ruiz, conductor) – 21 December 2013 (2013 Midwest Clinic)
- Banda Sinfónica RED Escuelas de Música Medellin
Works for Winds by This Composer
- A Bailar la Cumbia (2018)
- A Vélez el Siete (2008)
- Adios Azul (2017)
- Algo Arrebatao’ (Enlarged version) (2004)
- Algo Arrebatao’ (2004)
- Alucinaciones Bambuco
- Calor de Hogar (2013)
- Cargados de Ilusiones (2005)
- Chicamocha (2006)
- Concertino for Trombone and Band (2010)
- Concertino para Trompeta y Banda
- Corazón Santandereano (2011)
- Cununao (2013)
- De Cierto Modo (2004)
- Del Interior al Llano (2005)
- Don Mario, Bambuco (2016)
- Dos Locos Soñadores (2010)
- Dos Ritmos… Un Solo País (2005)
- El Cantor de la Patria (2010)
- El Solitario (2019)
- En la Puerta del Sol (2004)
- Entre Amigos
- Fandango Concertante (2005)
- Fantasía Festiva (2005)
- Himno del Municipio de Betulia (2002)
- La Iglesia 'e Velez (2011)
- Latinoamérica Despierta (2020)
- Linda Santandereana (2003)
- Lo que Queremos Soñar (2003)
- Los Caminos de Lengerke (2011)
- Los Tambores de Esteban (2011)
- Mesa de las Tempesatades (2010)
- Mi Negra (2017)
- Montaña Mágica
- Monteriano (2005)
- Músico, Poeta y Loco (2007)
- The No Four Seasons (2022)
- Nuestra Otra Colombia (2004)
- Nueve Lunas
- Paisaje Esperanza (2009)
- Peña Morada (2008)
- Perita en Dulce (2005)
- Pinceladas (2005)
- Pipatón (2010)
- Por Tanto y Tanto Amor (2005)
- Por un País Musical (2008)
- Porro Vueltiao (2014)
- Proceres (2015)
- Saxillo, for Sax Quintet and Band (2009)
- Señora de las Cigarras (2006)
- Será Violeta (2009)
- Suite aLa Colombiana (2003)
- Territorio Andino, from Suite Colombia (2013)
- Tríptico para Flauta y Banda de Vientos (2012)
- Tu llegada (2010)
- Vibraciones Andinas (2006)
- Zapatoca (2011)
Resources
None discovered thus far.