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- Peter Maxwell Davies
Fool's Fanfare (1972)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Globe Playhouse Trust Ltd
- 2tpt.2tbn/perc/uke(man)
- narrator
- 7 min
- Shakespeare
- English
Programme Note
One must imagine the clowns from King Lear (Lear's Fool), As You Like It (Touchstone), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck) and Hamlet (Gravedigger) summoned into the person of a single actor in jester's costume. He is sprung into action by a cracked fanfare from trumpets and trombones, then accompanied by a low-life ensemble of ukelele (doubling mandolin) and percussion, the brass sometimes stirring or commiserating with his madness.
