Nantes
Drake Mabry
About this work:
Nantes is a concerto for tuba and band commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture. The premiere was by the tubaist Michel Godard with the Union Philharmonique de Nantes, Frédéric Oster, conductor, in Nantes, France, June 10, 1992.
Each movement is a tribute to a composer or work in this order:
1. The awakening of Fafner
2. A waltz that can't get started
3. Don Ellis
4. Charles Ives/Johann Sebastian Bach
Version: for tuba solo and band
Year composed: 1992
Duration: 00:11:00
Ensemble type: Band:Wind Ensemble or Band with Soloist(s)
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