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Dark City
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Subtitle: Transcendance
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Jay Kennedy
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Dark City takes us into the futuristic urban dystopia of Fritz Lang’s expressionist science fiction drama, Metropolis.
- Program Note from Charles River Wind Ensemble concert program, 15 December 2019
Dark City was commissioned by Tom Lizotte, director of the Cape Elizabeth (Maine) High School Symphonic Band, to mark Lozotte's retirement in 2019.
- Program Note by composer
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre.
Made during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master. The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart".
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Charles River Wind Ensemble (Lexington, Mass.) (Matthew Marsit, conductor) – 15 December 2019
- Cape Elizabeth (Maine) High School Symphonic Band (Tom Lizotte, conductor) - 2 May 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Be Ever the Hope (2022)
- Catapult (2022)
- Celebration Overture
- Dark City (2019)
- Pathway Between the Mountains (1998)
- Scottish Fantasy
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Jay Kennedy." Accessed 15 December 2019
- Jay Kennedy, Personal correspondence, December 2019
- Metropolis (1927 film), Wikipedia. Accessed 15 December 2019