Concerto Americana
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General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 15:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Movements
1. 5:05
2. 5:30
3. 1:20
4. 3:20
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Concerto Americana is a duo concerto for clarinet and alto saxophone that is inspired by American dance music. The opening of the concerto features the soloists with cadenzas introducing the main material of the composition in a "showy" fashion with the first strike of a timpani roll, like the beginning of the Lawrence Welk Show. After a dreamy minimalist section, the Lawrence Welk influenced music ends in typical Champagne music fashion with a corp pop.
The second section of the concerto is inspired by space age/bachelor pad music, especially the music of Juan Garcia Esquivel. The dreamy, minimalist music returns which leads to the final section of the composition that is inspired by the modern subway dance music of Moon Hooch.
- Program Note from the Kansas State University Wind Ensemble concert program, 12 March 2016
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Kansas State University (Manhattan) Wind Ensemble (Frank Tracz, conductor; Tod Kerstetter, clarinet; Anna Wytko, alto saxophone) – 18 March 2016 (CBDNA 2016 Southwestern Division Conference, Boulder, Colo.)
- University of Florida (Gainesville) Symphonic Band (John M. Watkins, conductor) – 20 February 2016 (CBDNA 2016 Southern Division Conference, Charleston, S.C.)
- University of Florida (Gainesville) Wind Symphony (David Waybright, conductor; Duo Entre-Nous) – September 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- AMP (2016)
- Atipa-Tcoba (2020)
- Black Dog (2002)
- Clear Shade Creek (2018)
- Concerto Americana (2015)
- Death and Disfigurations (2024)
- DivertiMetal
- The Flight of the Elephant (2018)
- Freebirds (2010)
- Funkinetics (2014)
- Gone (2013)
- In Praise of Joe (2019)
- Krump (2007)
- Love Songs (2010)
- Mercury on the Moon (2009)
- Music from the Redneck Songbook II (2011)
- Popcopy (2007)
- Popcopy Rated T (2014)
- Symphony No. 2 (2024)
- X Concerto (1996)
- X2
- Xanadu
- Zing! (2008)
Resources
- Scott McAllister website Accessed 9 February 2016