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Overture 1776 - Thomas Duffy
차이코프스키 1812 overture를 모방하여 미국이 독립을 선언하고
영국과의 투쟁에서 승리를이른것을 기념하는 미국독립기념일 축하음악
영국국가 God Save the King.가 소멸되며 Yankee Doodle이 승리를 축하한다
Commissioned and premiered by the United States Military Academy Band
at West Point in honor of the academy’s bicentennial at the
Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point, New York.
conducted by Lieutenant Colonel David Deitrick.
composer Thomas C. Duffy created Overture 1776, a work of American and British flavor.
Duffy, deputy dean of the music department at Yale University, interweaves elements of The World Turned Upside Down (a march purportedly played at the surrender at Yorktown), The British Grenadiers, The White Cockade and Yankee Doodle. From the composer who brought us Corpus Collossum - a musical (and neurological) marvel that calls for the conductor, with face painted white and black, to direct contrasting meters, ambidextrously - Duffy presents his Tchaikovsky motives sometimes verbatim, sometimes in an inverted form, giving the unsuspecting listener a feeling that they're hearing the same work. But, instead of a Russian victory over Napoleon, we have the American colonists defeating the British. Instead of God Save the Czar, we have God Save the King.
Like 1812 Overture, Overture 1776 is intended for open-air celebration with the peal of bells, the roar of cannon, and obligatory pyrotechnics. The piece is effective, well crafted, and clever.
Although most traditions die hard, conductors now have a viable alternative
when programming Independence Day music.
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