MCALLISTER "Popcopy - More Cowbell!" - "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

Описание: “Popcopy by Scott McAllister”

The title of McAllister’s three-movement work Popcopy references a catchphrase from a famous Dave Chappelle skit, and the work as a whole is inspired by popular catchphrases from television and film from the 1990s. The composer described the piece in the following words:

The first movement, More Cowbell!, is based on a popular Saturday Night Live skit. In this movement, four cowbell parts surround the band to emulate the struggle of balance between the band and the cowbells, but the cowbells also help keep the band together during complex rhythmic sections. The second movement, One Time at Band Camp, is a catchphrase from the movie American Pie. This movement portrays reminiscences of summer love found and lost. Serenity Now is inspired by an episode of Seinfeld. Like the episode itself, the music deals with the line between sanity and insanity with at least four other story lines going on at the same time. There are multiple band quotes (shrouded tributes to [Gustav] Holst, [Paul] Hindemith, and [John Philip] Sousa), aleatoric and non-metered sections, and a schizophrenic form to this final movement.

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