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composition

Tallahatchie Concerto : version for alto saxophone and wind band / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; scored by R. Mark Rogers

Other authors:
Rogers, R. Mark (Editor)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Contains:
Slow
Fast
Description:
In 2008 an arrangement for wind band was made by Mark Rogers. Connie Frigo and the Tennessee Wind Ensemble performed its US premiere on April 2 2009 ,conducted by Gary Sousa at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville TN. This new arrangement was also performed by Branford Marsalis and the United States Navy Band in 2012. Branford performed the concerto also with the Düsseldorf Symfoniker in 2008, the Cincinnati Orchestra in 2013 and with the Polish National Orchestra in 2023, conducted by Andrey Boreyko.
Other soloists performed the concerto as well, like Ties Mellema in Chili with Dudamel conducting and Rob Buckland the RNCM Wind Orchestra, recorded the wind band version for the first time.In 2006 Tallahatchie Concerto was recorded by Arno with the Gelders Orkest, cond.Jurjen Hempel: JacobTV - Rainbow, Basta 3091 732 and Arno Bornkamp - Buku of Horn, Basta 3091962
A piano reduction was made by JacobTV in 2009.

2 arrangements of the concerto by Mary Osborn were added in 2016: - chamber version A, for alto sax, string quartet, double bass & piano - chamber version B, for alto sax, sax quintet & piano.

Program note (English): The Tallahatchie Concerto is the first piece that I wrote after the oratorio Paradiso, my 'magnus opus' so far. This is the reason why 'pink shadows of heavenly orange clouds' hang over the opening adagietto of the piece. The Tallahatchie Concerto is in fact a streched out crescendo/accelerando, in which the saxophone gradually leads us from celestial atmospheres into terrestrial ones. I regard this Concerto as an abstract piece of music, which is quite exceptional in my work, because I love to connect an anecdote to each composition. All I can say about the piece is that the word 'tallahatchie' occured to me spontanuosly. It appeared to be a native-American word, meaning 'river of rocks', which is in my opinion an apt metaphor for this concerto. I also think that there is some similarity with pieces such as 'Les Soupirs de Rameau', the 'Goldrush Concerto' or my third string quartet 'There must be some way out of here'. All these works are 'dreamed expeditions', composed
voyages of discovery for moments of beauty, bliss and ecstasy. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS