THE HEROES OF ORZÁN
Year of composition: 2012
Nominated to the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2013, Los Angeles, California. Winner of a silver medal in the Global Music Awards 2014, San Diego, California. Commissioned and dedicated to the A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra and its conductor, José Luís Represas.
Length: 29 minutes
Scored for: wind orchestra and speaker (text in Galician and English)
Opus 9 - AA092016
Movements:
i. Prologue: voiceless voice
ii. Nightfall in Orzán
iii. Walking through the seashore
iv. The accident
v. Rescue!
vi. Tragedy
vii. Epilogue: the heroes of Orzán
Premiere:
First performance was given by A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra, conducted by José Luís Represas at Palace of the Opera, A Coruña, Spain, November 4, 2012.
Please note:
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Study score (11.7 x 16.5)
Price:
50.00€
Full set (8.3 x 11.7)
Price:
350.00€
Brief notes:
Commissioned and dedicated to A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra and its conductor, José Luís Represas. Nominated to the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2013, contemporary category, celebrated in the Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, California; and obtained a silver medal in the Global Music Awards 2014, San Diego, California. First performance was given by A Coruña Municipal Wind Orchestra, conducted by José Luís Represas at Palace of the Opera, A Coruña, Spain, November 4, 2012.
The heroes of Orzán is written for a large wind orchestra and speaker who, in the way of voice in off, guides the entire composition by narrating the extra musical events, almost in the way of 'police reports'. These extra musical elements follow the tragedy occurred on the beach of Orzán in January of 2012, where the policemen José Antonio Villamor, Rodrigo Maseda and Javier López became heroes when they tried to save the life of Slovak student Tomas Velicky. As said above, all these extra musical elements are described by the speaker throughout the entire composition, overlapping them to the music as a single unity.
The heroes of Orzán is divided into seven movements that follow one after the other in an uninterrupted manner. The movements are:
I. Prologue: voiceless voice.
II. Nightfall in Orzán.
III. Walking through the seashore.
IV. The accident.
V. Rescue!
VI. Tragedy.
VII. Epilogue: the heroes of Orzán.
download it in PDF: Español - English.
