Michael Daugherty Metropolis Symphony V. Red Cape Tango

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Michael Daugherty
Metropolis Symphony for Orchestra (1993)
V. Red Cape Tango
Performed by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Kiesler: Conductor
October 11, 2012
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Since its premiere by the Baltimore Symphony in 1994 at Carnegie Hall, the GRAMMY®-winning Metropolis Symphony has entered the orchestral repertoire and been performed by orchestras all over the world.
Metropolis Symphony is a five-movement musical response to the world of Superman.
V. Red Cape Tango was composed after Superman's fight to the death with Doomsday, and is my final musical work based on the Superman mythology. The principal melody, first heard in the bassoon, is derived from the medieval Latin death chant Dies irae. This dance of death is conceived as a tango, presented at times like a concertino comprising string quintet, brass trio, bassoon, chimes, and castanets. The tango rhythm, introduced by the castanets and heard later in the finger cymbals, undergoes a gradual timbral transformation, concluding dramatically with crash cymbals, brake drum, and timpani. The orchestra alternates between legato and staccato sections to suggest a musical bullfight.
Duration - ca. 16:00
Composer: Michael Daugherty
www.michaeldaugherty.net
Publisher: Peermusic Classical
www.peermusicclassical.com
Score can be purchased through the following links:
Red Cape Tango only:
www.halleonard.com/product/vie...
Metropolis Symphony (all five movements):
www.halleonard.com/product/vie...
Parts for performance can be rented through the following link:
www.subitomusic.com/rental/pla...
Recording can be purchased through the following links:
Nashville Symphony; Gian Carlo Guerro (2010) Three GRAMMY wins:
www.amazon.com/Daugherty-Metro...
Baltimore Symphony; David Zinman (1996):
www.amazon.com/Daugherty-Metro...

Пікірлер: 21

@Zainzaidi-xo3mj 5 жыл бұрын

# TMEA 2019 All-State

@oscarguzman39 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, amazing, it's so different to the rest of classical music. Bravo Michael Daugherty .

@Magellann365 3 жыл бұрын

My prof played this in Music Appreciation at Purdue in 2008...and I have been obsessed ever since.

@TheMrHosmo 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks my marching pants are soiled

@benjaminmtb84 3 жыл бұрын

Watched and reported on this amazing piece for school; great job videotaping

@benjaminmtb84 3 жыл бұрын

My report/critique: Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango starts off with intriguing french horn echoing, followed by an astounding bassoon solo cohesively weaving with the tubular bells. Then comes the most beautiful part of the entire piece: the chromatics of the violins blending with nearly every instrument in the ensemble, with amazing harmonics coming from the tubular bells (this piece would not have been possible without them). When these musical phrases are finished, the brass (the per se "uglier" instruments than the string instruments) and percussion join together for a magnificent sound, adding to the overall sophistication and quality of the music by the Metropolis Symphony, switching between minor and ambiguous modes and giving off a sense of urgency. Slightly before 6:30 in this musical performance, another enthralling french horn echoing duet occurs, resetting the music; then the main idea (of chromatics and tubular bells) repeats, but with different variations and more diverse instruments, and slowly changes to an urgent piece, with a long lasting accelerando and several sforzandos. At 9:28, a violin soli occurs, slowing and speeding up the tempo with several accents, accelerandos, and rubados and making interesting (and ill-sounding) harmonies until 10:40, when the orchestra resets to the original chromatics, with multiple twists, building up to 12:39 where a colossal sounding french horn soli happens, ending the piece at about 13:10. Overall, this was an astounding piece, and will remain as one of my favorites, although I do strongly dislike the way the composer brought the main musical phrases in and out of major and minor keys rather than developing them until a clear new idea was formed.

@DevinLentz 10 жыл бұрын

very very excellent performance. love the 5 minute applause lol!

@richardwalker9826 3 жыл бұрын

love it - audio and video are great = a moving modern composition kudos to the university of michigan for this magnificent stage and pipe organ and the students in the orchestra and conductor and composer for a timeless performance ! it sounds better every time i listen to it.

@TheMrHosmo 10 жыл бұрын

Such wow

@Lillipod1 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this in Northern Ballet Dracula

@jacksonthorn206 9 ай бұрын

recently played this in my first professional orchestra concert and now this piece is and will remain one of my favorites. Even if I only got to play second violin.

@NickTenBrink 10 жыл бұрын

such a good piece. pretty sure that's hill auditorium

@AudreyDurden 7 жыл бұрын

Nick Ten Brink it is. I recognize it too. it's also confirmed in the description. I used to play at Hill Auditorium. possibly my favorite place to play.

@TheBigman603 4 ай бұрын

If you played this in high school hit the like button

@MrPrecoma 6 жыл бұрын

Don't ever take this down.

@rfrench5 9 жыл бұрын

Looks like the young woman playing French Horn forgot her music or something. The camera catches her very worried look, and then sneaks off stage to get music and come back at about the 7 minute mark.

@TallGlassOfLemonade 9 жыл бұрын

She's playing an offstage solo.

@dorisruss8145 5 жыл бұрын

Yup, took her music with her when she went.

@John-cr8rv 5 жыл бұрын

Just cringing at how bad the 2nd violin principal's vibrato is. 2:40 the hand is so unbelievably tense and awkward. Stretches every finger out and leaves the 4th finger straight. How can you vibrate like that?

@DrewHen 5 жыл бұрын

Asian skillset. Get good.