Dances from "Estancia"
Alberto Ginastera (arr. Donald Patterson)
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General Info
Year: 1941 / 2006
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: U.S. Marine Band
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Movements
1. Los Trabajadores Agricolas (The Farm Workers) – 2:50
2. Danza del Trigo (The Wheat Dance) – 3:22
3. Los Peones de Hacienda (The Cattle Men) – 1:59
4. Danza Final (Malambo)- 3:52
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In 1937, while Ginastera was still a student at Argentina's Williams Conservatory, conductor Juan José Castro premiered an orchestral suite from the young composer's ballet Panambi. The performance generated substantial attention for Ginastera, and just three years later the complete ballet was staged at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Lincoln Kirstein, director of the American Ballet Caravan, attended a performance of Panambi while visiting Argentina. He was so impressed with the brilliant and colorful music that he immediately commissioned Ginastera to write a new ballet for his company, and Estancia was completed just a year later. Unfortunately, Kirstein's American Ballet Caravan was disbanded before the premiere, leaving Estancia in limbo. Ginastera reworked four of the episodes into an orchestral suite that was introduced in 1943, but the complete ballet was not premiered until 1952, when it was presented by the Teatro Colón. In spite of this considerable delay, the work was a tremendous success and firmly cemented Ginastera's international reputation.
The plot of Estancia, the Argentine word for ranch, features the story of a young boy from the city who is struggling to adapt to life in the country. His love for a local girl is unrequited, because she considers him too weak and unskilled to be able to compete with the local gauchos (cowboys). The boy eventually wins her affections by immersing himself in ranch life until he is able to beat the gauchos at their own games.
The suite from the ballet is cast in four scenes which paint a vivid portrait of the passion and brutality of life on a ranch: Los Trabajadores agricolas (The Agricultural workers); Danza del trigo (Dance of the wheat fields); Los Peones de hacienda (The Cattlemen); Danza final (Final Dance). This last scene culminates is a malambo -- a frenetic Argentine dance in which gauchos complete to demonstrate their prowess and masculinity.
- Program Note from liner notes for the U.S. Marine Band CD Symphonic Dances
Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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- University of Southern California (Los Angeles) Thornton Wind Ensemble (Michelle Rakers, conductor) - 6 October 2023
- University of Oklahoma (Norman) Wind Symphony (Andrey Cruz, conductor) - 3 October 2021
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Wind Ensemble (Emily Threinen, conductor) – 11 December 2019
- Butler University (Indianapolis, Ind.) Wind Ensemble (Michael Colburn, conductor) – 6 October 2019
- University of Illinois (Champaign) Wind Symphony (Stephen G. Peterson, conductor) – 1 May 2019
- University of Kansas (Lawrence) Wind Ensemble (Stephen Smyth, conductor) – 23 February 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Concerto for Harp (arr. Odom) (195-?)
- Dances from "Estancia" (arr. Patterson) (1941/2006)
- Danza Final from "Estancia" (arr. John) (1941/1965)
- Danza Final (arr. Longfield) (1941/2009)
- Fanfare (1984)
- Four Dances from "Estancia" (arr. Snedecor) (1943)
- Harp Concerto (arr. Odom) (195-?)
- Impetuosamente (arr. Bimm)
- Overture to the Creole "Faust" (arr. Hudson) (1969)
- Site Estancia (arr. Patterson) (1941/)
Resources
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