Scoring
2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - t+3 - hp - str - jazz combo (piano, bass, drums)
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes (Hendon Music)
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
6/11/2022
Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, NJ
Chris Komer, horn / New Jersey Symphony / Xian Zhang
Programme Note
The French horn, a rather exotic instrument in the history of Jazz music, has among its most illustrious practitioners, legendary musicians like Julius Watkins, Willy Ruff, David Amram, John Clark and a few others, so I was so happy when the New Jersey Symphony commissioned me to write a piece for its principal hornist and great improviser Chris Komer. Subsequently, gorgeously illustrated by the painter Omar Corrales, the work contains elements of the Danzón and other Afro-Cuban rhythms, and is inspired by an imaginary, dreamy walk by the Catalan painter Salvador Dalí through the forest of my homeland.
– Paquito D’Rivera
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