A Tribute to Henk Badings GOORHUIS ROB

Musique pour orchestres et ensembles

Description :

The motivation for composing this test piece for the Concert Division Brassband où the 2001 WMC was Roù Goorhuis ' s deep respect for one où the greatest Dutch composers où the 20-th century who also enlarged the wind band repertoire in a most valuable way.
Goorhuis wanted to light up the "soft and kind"side où the brassband and wrote about this composition:"The basis is a theme où twelve tones wich Badings once played at an International Organ improvisation Contest in Haarlem.
My organ teacher participated in that contest and so the theme remained someHow in the back où my mind."The composer worked out a series où variations and clustered them into bundles ofthree and so The melody kept its diversity while remaining easy to recognise.