Grade 3+
Concert Band
La Boutique Fantasque
- Composer
- Rossini , arr. Respighi
- Band Setting by
- Jim Mahaffey
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) based this ballet suite on the earlier opera music of Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868). The suite of three movements opens with a spirited Can-Can, in the traditional style with an accelerando to the end, followed by a beautiful and melodic Valse spotlighting the woodwind section. The suite concludes with a rousing and dynamic Galop. Mahaffey has done a great job here in bringing the joy of the ballet stage to the modern wind band in this authentic arrangement.
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Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
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Song Details
- Duration
- 1:19 , 1:48 , 1:35
- Grade
- Grade 3+
- Instrumentation
- Band