Roberto Molinelli
FOUR PICTURES FROM NEW YORK
For Saxophone and Wind Band (2011)
I. Dreamy dawn
(Soprano sax and wind band)
II. Tango Club
(Alto sax and wind band)
III. Sentimental evening
(Tenor sax. jazz trio and wind band)
IV. Broadway night
(Alto sax and wind band)
Four pictures from New York, four images of the most famous and most universal metropolis of the world.
I wrote this concerto for saxophone and orchestra, now available also for wind band, inspired by the Big Apple, as it seems to the eyes of a European in love with America and its music and culture.
In Dreamy dawn, I described the sunrise in a radiant dawn, limpid and serene but modern at the same time: the day breaks with a background of the skyscrapers of Manhattan in an enchanting spectacle.
Tango Club is a piece dedicated to the grand Master of Tango Astor Piazzolla, New Yorker by adoption, written in the style of Argentinian Tango, in which the rhythm is possibly more important and representative of the recent secular past, and imagined in one of the many metropolitan clubs where they play and dance to Latin-American Music.
Sentimental evening, a jazz ballad, is surely particular for the presence of a jazz trio to accompany the saxophone soloist: in fact it is composed of three jazz players (piano, double-bass, drums) with accompaniment of strings.
The last movement, Broadway night, represents the exciting night life that enlivens the scintillating streets of Manhattan, the giant and multicolored luminous flashing lights that make Time Square a spectacle of lights and colors, and where outside the famous Broadway Theatres you live and breathe a musical atmosphere.
Instrumentation (Wind Band version):
2 Flutes (and Piccolo)
2 Oboes
1st Clarinets Bb
2nd Clarinets Bb
3rd Clarinets Bb
2 Bassoons
2 Alto Saxophones
1 Tenor Saxophone
1 Baritone Saxophone
4 Horns F
4 Trumpets Bb
3 Trombones
Tuba
Timpani
Percussions (2 players):
Drums (kick, tambourine, snare, hi-hat, tom(s)+floor tom, cymbals)
Triangle
Gran Cassa (Concert Bass Drum)
Cymbals
Glockenspiel
Tambur de Basque (Tamburello Basco)
Maracas
Claves
Whip
Jazz Piano
Harp
Double-bass
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