Variation XVI, fanfare for brass quintet
Perhaps Britten’s greatest opera, The Turn of the Screw contains fifteen interludes that are variations on a single theme. This fanfare is both a sixteenth variation upon that theme and…
Djemaa el Fna for 36 trumpets
Djemaa el Fna takes its name from the famous square that is the heart of Marrakesh’s medina. I visited this most exotic of African cities at Christmas 2008. Despite the…