Informationen zu "Okpebholo, Shawn E. Heritage Concert Band"
Verlag: C. F. Peters Ltd & Co. KG
Verlagsnummer: EP68748
EAN: 9790300762289
ISMN: M-3007-6228-9
Beschreibung
Shawn Okpebholo's Heritage, in the Edition Peters Concert Band Series, evokes
moods, events and sounds (including West African drumming and indigenous
melodies) from an ethnomusicological research visit the composer undertook to
Nigeria. One of the primary musical themes of the work is an adaptation of a
song that comes from the Esan people, a small ethnic group in the southern
part of Nigeria and the tribe to which the composer has deep historical and
family ties.The Esan language is poetic in nature and, at various moments in
the work, the musicians chant the text from an Esan song: Ekine leleyea do
obhimen la doeki nalo (My investment in you is paid off. Because of your hard
work, your future is bright).Heritage is a revised version of a work
previously entitled This is Africa, which was commissioned by Professor
Marcellus Brown and the Boise State University Symphonic Winds for the 2011
National CBDNA Convention and is dedicated to the memory of Dr Harry Begian.
