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- Roberto Sierra
A Joyous Overture (1991)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 2+pic.222/4321/timp.2perc/str
- 5 min
Programme Note
A bright and kinetic curtain-raiser alluding to Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” through themes employing the characteristic descending perfect fourth and the first four notes of the “Ode to Joy.”
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Reviews
Sierra's A Joyous Overture...reaffirmed one of the strongest compliments that can be paid to a composer today who chooses to work with traditional tools of melody, harmony, and rhythm: His music represents a unique voice, striking in its originality and bearing no traces of derivation or imitation.
Beneath gorgeous, shimmering surfaces, [A Joyous Overture] advance[s] currents of continuous development.