THE 2ND FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE

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Piece Title : The 2nd flight of the bumblebee
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Dificulty Rating :
Level : Senior / Graduate
Composer / Arranger : Brostrom, Tobias
Composer / Arranger Details:

Tobias Brostrom was born in 1978 in Helsingborg, Sweden.  Following four years of percussion studies at the Malmo Academy of Music, he embarked on the pursuit of a Masters degree in composition, studying with the Swedish composer Rolf Martinsson and the Italian composer Professor Luca Francesconi.

A percussionist himself, Tobias has composed many works for percussion. He has also composed electro-acoustic music, music for film and dance, chamber music and orchestral works including Transit Underground, Crimson Skies, Crimson Seas, Octal Arch and Arena Percussion Concerto No. 1, which was composed for Johan Bridger. Numerous soloists, ensembles and orchestras, including Hakan Hardenberger, Gavle Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperan, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Chamber Orchestra, Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae, Third Coast Percussion Quartet, Malleus Incus, Gageego, Esclats Percussion Quartet and BIT20 have performed his works. Tobias' solo and chamber music has been performed throughout Europe, the USA and Asia. He was awarded scholarships from the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm from 2004-2006 and from the Swedish Performing Rights Society in 2006.  In 2004 he was awarded the Rosenborg-Gehrman composition scholarship.  His music is published by Edition Svitzer and Keyboard Percussion Publications. 


Total Number of Percussionists Required :2 Percussionist(s)
Categories : Tuned Percussion / Percussion Ensemble
Instrument / Discipline : Marimba Duet
Instrumentation : N/A
Range of Instruments / Number of Drums : Low E Marimba / Low C Marimba (2 x 5 Octaves Required)
Written for / Commissioned by : No Commissioning Party
Sound File Recorded / Provided by :Patrick Raab & Johan Bridger
Accompanied :N/A
Publisher :Edition Svitzer
Publishers Website :www.editionsvitzer.com
Publisher Details :

Edition Svitzer is an innovative music publisher and booking agency. We want to serve you - both by providing premium quality sheet music by modern composers, and by making it possible to hear this music performed live by top soloists and ensembles, world-wide.

 

It is our wish that the high quality of our sheet music will nurture the relationship between musician and musical work, and provide years of continued pleasure. By the same token, we want to assure our customers the best possible live musical experience from our booking agency. We believe that our backgrounds as musicians enable us to handpick the artists that will make this possible.

Year Composed / Copyright Date :2006 /  2007
Duration :3Minutes
No. of Mallets/Sticks Required :4
Special Needs :N/A
Sheet Music Available From :www.editionsvitzer.com/archive_valgt.php?id_vaerk=42      Check to see if in stock
Programme Notes / Performance Details :

The flight of the 2nd Bumblebee was written during several months` work on two larger orchestral pieces - a peripheral project that lent variation to my other writing. The piece was originally written for two pianos and takes its inspiration from Witold Lutosławski’s Paganini Variations, a highly original transformation of the 24th Caprice for solo violin by Niccolò Paganini. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the well-known Flight of the Bumblebee as part of his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and I have taken the liberty to borrow the main theme from it - my sincere thanks and apologies to Rimsky-Korsakov! Following the presentation of the original and second themes, the development section witnesses the two engaging in intense battle! The piece is three minutes of busy, buzzing music, with the chromatic fragment of the original theme a constant presence.  

 

Patrick Raab, percussionist at the Royal Danish Orchestra

The second flight of the bumblebee is first of all a very funny to piece to perform. The mix of the original melody from Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov and the new theme composed by BrostrC6m, complement each other very well and the result speaks for it self.

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