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Peter Maxwell Davies : Fool's Fanfare

commissioned by the Globe Playhouse Trust Ltd
Publisher Chester Music Ltd
Category
 Solo Voice(s) and up to 6 players
Year Composed 1972
Duration
 7 Minutes
Solo Voice(s) narrator
Orchestration
 2tpt.2tbn/perc/uke(man)
Languages English
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Full Score(s):  CH55228

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.


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