Instrumentation: Fanfare Band
Duration: 11’30 min.
Grade: 5
Price Digital Score: € 29,-
Price Complete Digital Set: € 119,-
The Saba Adventure (Revised Version for Fanfare Band) can be ordered as a complete download (single score or as a complete set) from the Sonolize website. For viewing a score example, listening to a recording and for ordering this work, you can click here. The Sonolize website can be viewed in the English and Dutch language.
Program Notes:
On July 17, 1993, the official world premiere of my first major composition for fanfare orchestra took place during the World Music Competition in Kerkrade. ‘The Saba Adventure’ was performed on that day in the Rodahal by Fanfare Orchestra Psalm 150 from Dinxperlo conducted by Bart van den Brink in the Concert Division. Psalm 150 had also commissioned the composition.
It is already more than 30 years ago that ‘The Saba Adventure’ received such a wonderful world premiere. After the world premiere, the work has been performed many times and appeared on various compact disks. In all those 30 years the composer left the work untouched, but over time the desire arose to change a number of things in the instrumentation, articulation, dynamics and harmony. In the end, a revised version of ‘The Saba Adventure’ was created that, despite all the changes, hardly differs audibly from the very first version.
Just like with the sequel to ‘The Saba Adventure’ from 2014 (The Saba Encounters, also to be revised), the separate parts are now provided with all the titles, so that it is clearer what the music describes. The tempo indications have also been provided with more exact meters, although these are clearly still indications that can be interpreted freely.
