Mayan Sports Festival
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Subtitle: Fantasy Suite
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration:
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Curnow Music Press, through Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $149.00 | Score Only (print) - $30.00
Movements
1. Homage to the Gods
2. Entrance of the Athletes
3. The Game
4. For Sun and Rain, Glory Eternal
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The superbly colorful orchestration and dynamic percussion writing in this bold, inventive work set up a thrilling look into an ancient Mayan ritual. The amazingly advanced Mayan civilization is still, in many ways, a mystery to modern scholars -- but one of the most interesting aspects of the culture was a complex religious ritual referred to as the Ball Game. Not just an exciting and dangerous sporting competition, the outcome of the game affected the lives of everyone playing and watching.
- Program Note adapted from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording (in Attachments). Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra (Alex Schillings, conductor)
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class AA
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across the Currituck Sound (2007)
- Appomattox (2004)
- Architect of Victory (1994)
- Atlantic Avenue (1996)
- Battle Hymn 2000 (2000)
- Black Granite (1996)
- Black Granite (adapt. Patterson) (1996/2020?)
- Christmas Latina (2004)
- Colonial Collage, A (2001)
- Diamond Prelude (1999)
- Fanfare Britannica (2001)
- Fantasia on a 13th Century Carol (2006)
- First Light on the Chesapeake
- Harbor Park Holiday
- Hero for Today (as arranger)
- Ice Breaker (2009)
- Land of Louisa
- Mayan Sports Festival (2003)
- Patriotic Salute, A (2001)
- Persis (2000)
- Pride of the Fleet (2003)
- Guardians of Peace (1999)
- Second Dawning, The (1996)
- Sing We Liberty (2006)
- The Sound of Silence (as arranger) (1964/2018)
- Splashes of Gold
- Swords Against the Sea (2001)
- The Virginians (1994)
- We Hold These Truths (1997)
- With Full Honors (1994)
Resources
- Hosay, J. (2003). Mayan Sports Festival [score]. Curnow Music: Wilmore, Ky.
- James Hosay Website Accessed 3 April 2023