Dirk Brossé

Philadelphia Overture

version for Symphony Orchestra

2014

7’

DESCRIPTION  

In summer 2010 Dirk Brossé was appointed music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. During his inauguration concert that same year, he gave a musical surprise to the city in which he was to work for the next decade: the Philadelphia Overture. This work is dedicated to the city – America’s first capital – and to its people. In it we hear the energy, the power, the freedom and the vitality of multi ethnic Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love….

INSTRUMENTATION

2(+pic)2(+ci)2(+basscl)2(+contra) / 4331 / timp + 3 perc* / hp / strings

*percussion instruments:

percussion 1: glockenspiel – clashed cymbals – temple blocks – triangle – bar chimes –

                      snare drum

percussion 2: sizzle cymbal – suspended cymbal

mallets: tubular bells – xylophone – glockenspiel 

PREMIERE

World premiere by INSO – Lviv Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dirk Brossé on November 15, 2015, at National Opera Kiev, Ukraine.

PUBLISHER

Dirk Brossé  

AVAILABLE SCORES & ORCHESTRAL MATERIALS

Available on a rental base from the composer

RELATED RECORDINGS

Brussels Philharmonic plays Dirk Brossé / A Journey from Philly to Utopia

Antarctic Records 2020 AR 019

CATEGORIES 

Works for Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra