Brass Band Ensemble Flavia Summer Concert 2023

The first part of the concert will be titled "Theme Songs of the Sea" and will consist of wind band competition pieces depicting the sea.
The first piece is "March 'Tide Smoke'".
It has a hard-boiled and unique atmosphere that brings to mind a detective standing on a dock.
The next piece, "To the Sea... for brass band," will be played next. Sometimes there are magnificent and powerful waves, sometimes it is a quiet night with twinkling stars on the surface of the water, and then gradually the night dawns and people gather and the sea comes alive again. ...... The music seems to express a day at sea that changes in various ways.
The third piece, "Nagisa Scope," is delicate from the beginning to the end, and is also a piece that is somewhat sad, which sets it apart from the other pieces.
The last piece to be performed is a newly revised version of the "Symphonic Poem for Symphonic Band 'Wave Viewing Landscape'".
This is the new version which was revised after it was published as a piece for the 1985 competition.
The music and instruments reproduce a wide variety of oceanic expressions similar to human joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure: waves that rush in and quickly return, calm and comfortable seas, emotional seas at dusk, wild waves that seem somewhat terrifying, powerful waves that push on, and majestic and mysterious seas.
Please enjoy the "sea" as depicted by each composer.

In the second part of the concert, we will perform two pieces on the world's oceans under the theme of "Traveling on the Sea.
The first piece will be "Rainbow over the Waves".
The percussion composition is especially unique, and a wine bottle with tuned tuning will also appear in the piece.
It is a piece that depicts a rainbow over the ocean after it rains and clears up.
The second piece, "Song of the Sailor and the Sea," will be presented next.
The piece opens with the sound of waves expressed by percussion instruments and a melody by trumpets and horns that evokes the image of dawn and setting sail.
In the middle section, the musical aspect of the piece changes drastically, as the humpback whales sing a song with a special percussion technique, while the euphonium and oboe sing a delicate and beautiful melody.
At the end, a fanfare of a spectacular departure of a high-speed sailing ship by horns is followed by a melody again expressing the dynamic ocean field.
We hope you will enjoy the scenes of the ocean as it changes from one scene to the next.

The third part will be a "Sea Pops Stage" featuring famous songs from stories set on the sea.

Admission is free, so please feel free to bring your family and friends! All the members of the group are looking forward to seeing you!