Anthology of Fantastic Zoology
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Anthology of Fantastic Zoology

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A concerto for orchestra - Proceed to purchase if you would like to buy a study score.   Conductor's Score and Performance Parts for RENTAL ONLY. Please send an email to info@aphramusic.com to request a rental application form. Approximate Duration: 35' PROGRAM NOTES     The slim size of Jorge Luis Borges’ Anthology of Fantastic Zoology belies the teeming bestiary contained within its pages.  A master of magical realism and narrative puzzles, Borges was the perfect writer to create a compendium of mythological creatures.  Several are of his own invention.    The musical realization of this, a kind of psychedelic Carnival of the Animals, is presented in eleven interlocking movements (a sprawling form inspired by French and Russian ballet scores).  In between evocations of creatures familiar (sprite, nymph) and unknown (an animal that is an island), brief “forest interludes” take us deeper into the night, and deeper into the forest itself.     Imaginative creatures provoke new sounds and

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