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Solo flights / piano music by John Carmichael ; Antony Gray [piano].
Version: This product features the Duos: 2 pianos version of this work
Library shelf no. CD 1818 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
John Carmichael spent several years as musical director of a
Spanish dance company during which time his innate love of
Spanish and Latin American music and dance forms deepened
further. The first result was the Concierto Folklorico for piano
& orchestra, but works continue to appear using the rhythms,
harmonic idiom and characteristics of Spanish and Latin American
music.
In the Latin American Suite, the rhumba and the habanera
are well known dance forms, but the joropo less so; there are two
theories about its characteristic cross rhythm between 6/8 and
3/4 time - one is that the Viennese waltz became very popular,
but the rhythmic genius of Latin dancers spiced the three in a
bar rhythm of the waltz with a six in the bar flavour. The other
explanation is that the joropo rhythm imitates the galloping of
the horses which are famous for their speed and grace in the area
between Venezuela and Colombia.
The Jongo came to Latin America via the slave trade from Africa;
it has an obsessive beat and its highly syncopated melody rises
from a hushed beginning to an orgiastic climax.
Work Details
Year: 2000
Instrumentation: Piano.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: 1. Bahama rumba -- 2. Joropo -- 3. Obsession - Habañera -- 4. Jongo.
Written for: Antony Gray
Subjects
- Influenced by: Latin-American music
- In the form/style of: Suites
Performances of this work
6 Nov 2011: at Lyrebird Music Society Concert (Wyselaskie Auditorium). Featuring Robert Weatherburn, Jeffrey Grice.
12 May 01: Conservatorio Concert Hall, Girona, Spain. Featuring Sofia Cabruja, Carlos Lama.
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