Wheeler: The Dancing Bird

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Release Date: 1st Jan 1994
Catalogue No: TROY114
Label: Albany
Length: 58 minutes

Wheeler: The Dancing Bird

Work length58:22

$9.50

$13.30

Dominique Soucy, Francesco Vanasco, Victor Rice, Thad Wheeler

Bulerias

Track length9:48

$1.50

$2.10

Purple Night

Track length8:56

$1.50

$2.10

Scherzo Merengue

Track length8:31

$1.50

$2.10

Tempo Danzon

Track length10:59

$1.50

$2.10

Glimmerglass

Track length13:00

$2.00

$2.80

Sevillanas Magicas

Track length7:08

$1.50

$2.10

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"I composed The Dancing Bird in response to a need expressed by Francesca Vanasco for a number of original works for the unusual combination of flute, cello, bass and vibraphone that make up Alborada Latina, the chamber ensemble for Latin American Music," says Thad Wheeler. "The Dancing Bird was begun after I received a diagram of a Spanish Sevillanas from Basilio Georges. I used the 47 bar form as a framework for "Sevillanas Magicas," a Spanish sevillanas with an American accent. I hen went on to write "Bulerias," "Purple Night," and "Scherzo Merenque," integrating structural and developmental devices used by Beethoven with flamenco and Venezuelan rhythms and my own melodic and harmonic materials. The last piece composed for The Dancing Bird was "Glimmerglass." I wrote this piece while spending a great deal of time house-hunting in Cooperstown, New York in the late winter-early spring."

Wheeler: The Dancing Bird

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