Desert Tales - Dance Suite for Wind Ensemble (Premiere WITH DANCERS)

It finally happened, yall! Huge deal for me and a really really important passion piece about my thankfulness for being able to study music in college. There are a lot of things I want to improve moving forward, but I hope everyone enjoys. Lots of passion between every collaborator in this premiere. I hope to hear it played again / have this lead to some things, but this was pretty special for me.

Let me know your thoughts!

Perusal Score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c90o8gsfxu7xgsg/Desert Tales - Full Score.pdf?dl=0

Recording: 

Hi @Eickso,

I like the Hymn of Nomads very much. The timbre is great like the percussion and the passage for your instrument clarinet is fanciful; the ending brass section is wonderful.

In the Sultan's Parade I see influence from your Toy Box Suite with sophisticated usage of xylophone and glockenspiel. 

I love how punching your brass section is in the Tiger's cave section, the modal keys are good as well. The ending reminds me of some action music!

Wonderful piece and thanks for sharing!

Henry

A very nice work altogether, pretty polished. The music is engaging and a good balanced performance. The choreographer had some excellent ideas and your sound cart person maintained a good balance. 

Well done.

[Eidt]: I don't often review anything over 10 minutes but I love modern dance. It easily held my interest. 

On 5/1/2023 at 7:28 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hi @Eickso,

I like the Hymn of Nomads very much. The timbre is great like the percussion and the passage for your instrument clarinet is fanciful; the ending brass section is wonderful.

In the Sultan's Parade I see influence from your Toy Box Suite with sophisticated usage of xylophone and glockenspiel. 

I love how punching your brass section is in the Tiger's cave section, the modal keys are good as well. The ending reminds me of some action music!

Wonderful piece and thanks for sharing!

Henry

 

I am really happy you like the 1st movement! It was the weakest one in the MIDI version, but it ended up really cool live. The bass clarinet part with the singing is my favorite section of the whole piece.

Sultan’s Parade was the direct project follow up to Toy Box Suite! This piece definitely could not have been what it was without learning about the keyboard percussion instruments/messing around in the toy box first!

Isn’t the opening of Tiger Cave hype??? If this piece gets performed by a larger/stronger wind ensemble, there is a lot more room for brass to shine in the colors still. They played even a little shy for this performance, so I hope a different recording beefs the grass up enough to show you again.

Thanks for listening and commenting 🙂