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ANDREW DOWNES PUBLISHED
WORKS
WIND BAND:-
SYMPHONY No.4 - scored for Concert Wind Band Opus 60 (1996)
25'
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Commissioned by Janice Lee Sperling MD for the Albuquerque
Concert Band. The British premiere took place in December 1997 in
the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, with Guy Woolfenden conducting
the Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Band.
Subsequent performances by the Yorkshire Wind Band at the BASWE Festival at the
Royal Northern College of Music and by the RAF Central Band.
'Andrew Downes' Symphony No.4 is on a larger scale, painting
a comprehensive picture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and its
environs. Immediately appealing was the vivid opening depiction
of the town itself, an expressive solo on cedarwood flute in the
third movement and the buoyant energy of the closing Rio Grande,
but the composition clearly demands further listening....'
THE BIRMINGHAM POST