THE HEROES
OF ORZÁN
Year of composition: 2012
This composition received an official nomination for the 2013 Hollywood Music in Media Awards in Los Angeles, California, and won a silver medal at the 2014 Global Music Awards in San Diego, California. It was commissioned by and dedicated to the A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra and its conductor, José Luís Represas.
Duration: 29 minutes
Scored for: for narrator and wind orchestra (text in Galician, Spanish and English)
Opus 9 — AA092016
Difficulty: Medium-Advanced
Movements:
i. Prologue: Voiceless Voices
ii. Nightfall in Orzán
iii. The Seashore
iv. The Accident
v. Rescue!
vi. Tragedy
vii. Epilogue: The Heroes of Orzán
Premiere:
First performance was given by the A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra, conducted by José Luís Represas, at the Palace of the Opera, A Coruña, Spain, November 4, 2012.
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The Heroes of Orzán
A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra [World Premiere]
Conductor | José Luís Represas
About the Music
This composition received an official nomination for the 2013 Hollywood Music in Media Awards in Los Angeles, California, and won a silver medal at the 2014 Global Music Awards in San Diego, California. It was commissioned by and dedicated to the A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra and its conductor, José Luís Represas.
The Heroes of Orzán is written for wind orchestra and narrator, who guides the audience through the entire composition by recounting the extra-musical events in a voice-over style, almost as if delivering a police report. The work's narrative is based on the tragedy that took place on Orzán Beach (Galicia, Spain) in January 2012, when police officers José Antonio Villamor, Rodrigo Maseda, and Javier López became heroes while attempting to save the life of Slovak student Tomas Velicky. As mentioned above, the narrator recounts these events throughout the composition, with the spoken narration and the music unfolding simultaneously as a unified whole.
The Heroes of Orzán is divided into seven movements that follow one after the other in an uninterrupted manner.
Those movements are:
I. Prologue: Voiceless Voices
II. Nightfall in Orzán
III. The Seashore
IV. The Accident
V. Rescue!
VI. Tragedy
VII. Epilogue: The Heroes of Orzán
Obra encargada y dedicada a la Banda Municipal de A Coruña junto a su director, José Luís Represas. Esta composición recibió una nominación oficial a los Hollywood Music in Media Awards de 2013, categoría contemporánea, celebrados en el emblemático teatro Henry Fonda de Los Ángeles, California, EE. UU. Obtuvo además una medalla de plata en los Global Music Awards de 2014, San Diego, California, EE. UU. Su estreno fue llevado a cabo por la Banda Municipal de A Coruña bajo la dirección de José Luís Represas, Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña, España, el 4 de noviembre de 2012.
The Heroes of Orzán (Los Héroes de Orzán) está escrita para orquesta de viento y narrador que, a modo de voz en off, guía toda la composición narrando los acontecimientos extra musicales como si de atestados policiales se tratasen. Estos elementos extra musicales siguen la tragedia ocurrida en la playa de Orzán (Galicia, España) en enero de 2012, donde los policías José Antonio Villamor, Rodrigo Maseda y Javier López se convirtieron en héroes al intentar salvar la vida del estudiante eslovaco Tomas Velicky. Como se ha expuesto anteriormente, todos estos elementos extra musicales son descritos por el narrador a lo largo de toda la composición, superponiéndolos a la propia música conformando una unidad unívoca.
Los Héroes de Orzán está dividida en siete movimientos que se suceden de forma ininterrumpida.
Estos movimientos son:
I. Prologue: Voiceless Voices (Prólogo: Voces sin voz).
II. Nightfall in Orzán (Anochece en Orzán).
III. The Seashore (La orilla).
IV. The Accident (El Accidente).
V. Rescue! (¡Rescate!).
VI. Tragedy (Tragedia).
VII. Epilogue: The Heroes of Orzán (Epílogo: Los Héroes de Orzán).