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Akbank Bunka
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Subtitle: For Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra
General Info
Year: 2004
Duration: c. 15:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Trumpet and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Tarrodi
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental
Movements
1. Akolebank – 6:15
2. Japabunka – 5:45
3. Turkjazz - 3:20
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
It was in September 2003, after taking part in the Austrian première of my double concerto Behac Munroh, that Ole Edvard Antonsen asked me if I would write a 15-minute piece for him and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. We listened to some of his recordings – some wonderfully childish songs written for his son – and I was amazed by the beauty of his sound in these pieces.
The opening of my piece could not have been written had I not first heard this. Afterwards my work on the piece was influenced by one thing after another. In the middle of writing the fast section of the first movement I was contacted by a Turkish orchestra about a concert; while working on the second movement I was planning a Japanese tour for my new orchestra, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra; and as I was starting the third I got a call from Ole saying he was in New York playing oriental jazz. These small incidents had a strange impact on the piece itself, even if I was almost not aware of it at the time. The title is a combination of Turkish and Japanese, "Akbank" being the name of a Turkish bank and "bunka" meaning culture in Japanese. I could tell you a lot more about the different six composition techniques I used and the work’s orchestration, form and analysis – and bore you to death. But I will not. Instead I’ll end this little note with the hope that you will have as much fun listening to the piece as I had writing it!
- Program Note by composer
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Memphis (Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (Kraig Alan Williams, conductor; David Spencer, trumpet) – 25 February 2010 (CBDNA 2010 Southern Division Conference, Oxford, Miss.)
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Akbank Bunka (2004)
- Chick'a'Bone Checkout (2014)
- Concerto for Winds and Percussion (2003)
Resources
- Christian Lindberg website – Accessed 1 September 2022