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An Overture for Concert Band

COMPOSER/AUTHOR Franco Cesarini
WORK NO. Op. 42
PRODUCT CATEGORY Concert Band
EDITION NO. 1638-09 M
GENRE Original Concert Work
DIFFICULTY GRADE 4
DURATION 9:00
YEAR OF RELEASE 2007
SERIES Concert Work Series
PUBLISHER Mitropa Music

The intention of this composition is not so much to describe in music the “look” of a city, instead the composer seeks to create an emotional, rather than visual, picture. The composition reflects the innumerable moods of today’s life: energetic, dynamic and intense. In the first part of the composition it is easy to feel the city, vibrant with life, shown through frenetic rhythms. The audience will naturally be reminded of chaotic traffic and bustling pedestrians, engrossed in their daily duties. But in every city is a place where you can find peace and tranquillity: a park, a hidden square, a forgotten corner. Here the mind can wander and dream of distant places. It is, though, only a small break, before chaotic city life resumes. From a musical point of view, this composition presents a single theme, which then elaborates into two distinct and contrasting parts: nervous and quick at first, cantabile and relaxed in the central part. Towards the end of the piece, the two parts merge to form the climax of the work.

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