Uit een Sprookje
Eduard de Boer (as Alexander Comitas)
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The title of this work translates from the Dutch as From a Fairy Tale. It bears the designation Opus 50b.
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 14:10
Difficulty: III(see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: HAFABRA Music
Cost: Score and Parts - €167.00 | Score Only - €34.00
Movements
1 Er was eens… (Once upon a time…) - 1:10
2. Zorgen (Sorrow) - 2:20
3. Gevecht (Fight) - 3:20
4. Happy End - 3:10
5. En ze leefden nog … (And they lived happily…) - 2:00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
From a Fairy Tale, Op. 50b is comprised of five miniature movements that depict stereotypical aspects of fantastical narratives. The music is mostly light-hearted, intended to offer pleasure and enjoyment. The composer has provided a brief narrative to adequately prepare the listener for each movement, but in many ways, the music aptly “speaks” for itself in telling the story.
- Program Note from Calvin University Symphonic Band concert program, 12 March 2021
Commissioned by Stichting De Kunst. First performance: 6 January 2006. Alpspitzhalle, Nesselwang (Germany). ‘Schwäbisches Jugendblasorchester’ SJBO conducted by the composer.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Schwäbisches Jugendblasorchester (Alexander Comitas conductor)
- Audio CD: Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band (Kazuhiko Komatsu, conductor) – 2007
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Calvin University (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Symphonic Band (Tiffany Engle, conductor) - 12 March 2021
- WASBE2017 Honor Band (Utrecht, Netherlands) (Ivan Meylemans, conductor) – 22 July 2017 - WASBE Conference (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Armenian Rhapsody No 1 (as Alexander Comitas) (1990)
- Caucasian Epode (1988/1994)
- Coming to Light (2015)
- Concert Overture Mindia 2020 (2020)
- Elegy for Tohoku (2011)
- From a Fairy Tale. See: Uit een Sprookje
- Homage to Dmitri Shostakovich (1978/1990)
- A Night on Culbin Sands (1999/2001)
- Symphony No. 3 (2013)
- Uit een Sprookje (as Alexander Comitas) (2005)
- Vita Aeterna Variations (2011/2017)
- Witches' Cauldron (as Alexander Comitas) (2003)