THE LAND OF THE LONG WHITE CLOUD - Aotearoa (Philip Sparke) Also dating from 1979, The Land of the Long White Cloud was Philip Sparke's first test piece; it was commissioned by the New Zealand Brass Band Association for their 1980 National Championships (their centenary year) and set for the European Brass Band Championships, held, that year, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Aoteama was the name ghren to New Zealand by its Polynesian settlers whose first sight of the islands was a long, flat cloud lying low over the land, The work has no specific programme although many have seen pictures ol the surging ocean in the opening bars. A faster dance-like section leads to a slow, haunting solo tor soprano comet; this is taken up by the whole band before earlier material returns‘ The dance-like tune is, this tame, given a fugal treatment and the opening bars return to close the work.

1:36 is perfection

Wonderfull piece of music. Played it back in 1985 and 1986 allready. Really wonderfull!!!

I played this in 1977 in B grade in NZ (2nd grade) it was written about our country being Aotearoa the Land of the Long White Cloud.. Blue. C.

Played this with Salt River Brass at NABBA in Las Vegas, 1999!!! Wicked fun piece. We hired the composer to come work with for three weeks.

This is the test piece for the first section in march 2017. It's a brilliant piece of music. This is a great performance of it

Een mooie weergave!, prachtig en ik vond het fijn om naar te luisteren. Ik zit nu op eufonium maar heb dit werk vroeger op bugel weleens gespeeld, en vind het nog steeds een mooi werk van Spark

Oh ya my jam

Some nice flugal playing by a great friend!! Good one Johan!

noice

I got really confused with there being 2 second trombones, was thinking, pretty sure the bass-trom line is different to that!

The Land of the Long White Cloud is New Zealand,

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great Sparke versiopn ♫♪ a bit out of tune, balance and transparancy now and then, but in all good of dynamics and musicallity as well as playing and phrasing ♫♪