Instrumentation
concert wind band
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Other Information
Commissioned by Janice Lee Sperling MD for the Albuquerque Concert Band. The British premiere took place in December 1997 in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, with Guy Woolfenden conducting the Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Band.
Subsequent performances by the Yorkshire Wind Band at the BASWE Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music and by the RAF Central Band.
´Andrew Downes´ Symphony No.4 is on a larger scale, painting a comprehensive picture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and its environs. Immediately appealing was the vivid opening depiction of the town itself, an expressive solo on cedarwood flute in the third movement and the buoyant energy of the closing Rio Grande, but the composition clearly demands further listening....´
THE BIRMINGHAM POST
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