A Bassoon Circus
“The work, fanciful and accessible, is very well written, filled with comic effects, and everyone has fun, including musicians.”
– La Presse+, Caroline Rodgers
A Bassoon Circus is a concertino for solo bassoon and orchestra staged as a instrumental theatre. Each of its seven short movements evokes a different kind of circus act, starring the soloist. The work is a tribute to the comic dimension of Spike Jones’s universe.
I – The Ringmaster
II – The Lion Tamer
III – The Tightrope Walker
IV – The Magician
V – The Human Cannonball
VI – The Clown
VII – The Strongman
Instrumentation: solo bassoon / 2221 / 2200 / 1 timp / 1 perc / strings
Duration: 16 minutes
Commissioned by the Laval Symphony Orchestra, their artistic director Alain Trudel and the bassoonist Michel Bettez. Dedicated to Alain Trudel and Michel Bettez.
Premiere: March 15th, 2017, by theLaval Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Alain Trudel and the bassoonist Michel Bettez, at the Salle André Mathieu, in Laval, QC, Canada.
- March, 15, 2017 | Laval Symphony Orchestra, Alain Trudel and Michel Bettez | Salle André Mathieu, Laval, QC, Canada (premiere)