Incantation and Dance (Classical in general)

Name: stephen2001

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Product:	Classical in general
Date:	03/11/00 (436 review reads)
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Advantages: A joy and thrill to play

Disadvantages: A full band and perc section is needed for it to be performed to it's true potential

Incantation and Dance is the perfect tune to listen to if you are trying to get into classical music. It is also a challenge to play, wherever you're sat in the band.
It's composer is John Barnes Chance, an American, and was written in the 1960s in Greensboro, Georgia, for concert wind band and a whole pile of percussion.
It is made up of two distinctive sections, the haunting incantation where the tune starts in the flutes before passing over to clarinets then the brass before launching into the dance where percussion run wild before the brass section explodes into life and the dance begins. Sycopation and cross rythmns fly about all over the shop from every single instrument. There is no one tune at any one time and Chance utilizes the capability of each instrument superbly.
The ending is the perfect climax to a stunning piece of music.
I have played this twice and the second time at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, it was absolutly stunning and was the talk of many of the thousand strong audience.
If you are a conductor of a concert band, BEWARE, it needs the full range of percussion and is very technical and a full and competent band is needed.
If after this you would like a listen, go to a search engine and type "incantation and dance". The recording I listen to requires RealPlayer and the piece is performed by the ELHS Band from the US.
Happy Listening!!!

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