Arctic Dreams (ed Ambrose)
Michael Colgrass (ed. Ambrose)
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General Info
Year: 1991 / 2015 (?)
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Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
In Arctic Dreams, Colgrass combines his own experiences living above the Arctic Circle with an Inuit family with images from a book by Barry Lopez to produce a tone poem of great sweep and expressive power. After a trombone solo suggesting the vastness of the Arctic landscape, we hear a series of tone images depicting a variety of experiences, including laughter-inducing throat singing and the majesty of the aurora borealis.
Colgrass is an inventive composer and his orchestration is always surprising and convincing.
- Stephan Hicken writes in American Record Guide of the Centaur Records CD with New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble under Frank Battisti.
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Performances
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- University of British Columbia (Vancouver) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Robert J. Ambrose, conductor; Jeremy Berkman, trombone) – 12 February 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Apache Lullaby (2013)
- Arctic Dreams (1991)
- Arctic Dreams (ed. Ambrose) (1991/2015)
- Bali (2006)
- The Beethoven Machine (2003)
- Concertino for Timpani (1965)
- Deja Vu (1977/1987)
- Dream Dancer (2001)
- A Flute In The Kingdom Of Drums and Bells
- Ghost River
- Gotta Make Noise (2003)
- Goldberg Variations (as arranger)
- Mysterious Village (2007)
- Night of the Raccoon
- Nightingale inc. (1970)
- Old Churches (2002)
- Pan Trio
- Phantom Moon (2013?)
- Raag Mala (2005)
- Urban Requiem (1995)
- Winds of Nagual (1985)
- Zululand (2010?)
Resources
- Michael Colgrass website
- Robert J. Ambrose website Accessed 26 January 2016