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Ghost and Dream Dancing

Studies for Orchestra I
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Edition: Performance material

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Description

I was very moved by Dee Brown’s indigenous history of the American West, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and there came to my mind an imaginary ballet portraying the Ghost Dance, the tragic and terrifying withdrawal from reality which was the Sioux nation’s last refuge in the face of the white invasion of their world. The music begins with an invocation (the ritual smoking of dream grass). Each subsequent section of the work flows out of the previous one: the first ghost dance; the harrowing and renewing of the land; the appearance of the ancestors in a second ghost dance – of celebration; and the return from the dream state. Anthony Gilbert

Orchestral Cast

3(3.pic).3(2.,3.ca).3(2.Ebcl,3.bcl).2.cbsn-4.3(3.flugelhn).3(2ttbn,btbn).1-timp.3perc(ten d, b.d, low tom-t, 3tempbl, tam-t, xyl, mar, 2vib, glsp, anvil)-hp.cel-str

Content

I Sostenuto
II Doppio movimento. Leggero, preciso
III Flessibile
IV Mosso ma flessibile

More Information

Title:
Ghost and Dream Dancing
Studies for Orchestra I
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1974 (1981)
Opus:
op. 25
Duration:
19 ′
World Premiere:
1974 · Birmingham (UK)
Birmingham Triennial Festival 1974
Conductor: Louis Fremaux · City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Feeney Trust for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Technical Details

Product number:
LSL 1799-01

Performances

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  • Ghost and Dream Dancing
    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras
    September 19, 1974 | (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
  • Ghost and Dream Dancing
    Birmingham Triennial Festival 1974
    Conductor: Louis Fremaux
    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    1974 | Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) — World Premiere
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