from Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo. Par COPLAND AARON. Buckaroo Holiday est un des quatre tableaux du célèbre ballet Rodeo du père de la musique américaine Aaron Copland (1900-1990). Écrit en 1942 pour la chorégraphe Agnès de Mille, Copland en réalisera une suite pour orchestre autour de quatre épisodes dansés qu’il intitulera Four Dance Episodes. On y retrouve le ton narratif du ballet. Rodeo a pour thème une histoire d’amour drôle. Une jeune vachère tente d’attirer l’attention du maître-vacher en réalisant toute une série d’actions valeureuses, mais en vain. Elle finira cependant par gagner son coeur en se rendant à une soirée dansante, vêtue d’une superbe robe rouge. Tout est bien qui finitbien. Buckaroo Holiday est le premier mouvement de la suite pour orchestre. Robuste et puissant, avec quelques passages mélodieux et lyriques, ce premier épisode évolue sur de nombreux rythmes syncopés et évoque avec justesse la vie du cow-boy (ou buckaroo - terme dérivé de l’espagnol vaquero signifiant « vacher »). Cette excellente transcription pour Orchestre d’Harmonie a été réalisée par Ed Keeley. Elle reste parfaitement fidèle à la version originale. / Niveau : 4 / Classique / Date parution : 1905-06-29/ Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This major concert work cosists o five movements. 1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas, a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals, in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the “Laguna del Shimbe”, one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream. 2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It’s a proud, beautiful andindependent race, which has never succumbed to domination, not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish, fruit, plants, . . . . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation, they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways. 3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning “picture”, “soul”, “essence”. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system, their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. “Everywhere the white man goes, he leaves a wilderness behind him”, wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites, the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone, 80 tribes have vanished completely). 4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias, in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water, painted with redpaint and covered with feathers, after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound. 5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by, amongst others, the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez, who, murdered in 1988, was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped. / Niveau : 6 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Arr. Toru Kanayama. Par MORALI / HENRI BELOLO / VICTOR WILLIS. Go West est, à l’origine, une chanson du groupe The Village People (1979). En 1993, le duo britannique Pet Shop Boys reprend, dans une version plus dancefloor, cette chanson qui va faire le tour du monde des discothèques et devenir l’hymne de nombreux stades de football. Réveillez la passion de votre public avec l’arrangement enflammé de Toru Kanayama. / Niveau : 4 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie