Agrell, Jeffrey % Carib Dance - WW5

Carib Dancefor woodwind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoonby Jeffrey Agrell - American composer and hornist About the Music Carib Dance was written for the Wildwind Quintet, which specialized in uncommon repertoire and performance practice. One unusual thing about this piece is that it works well as an audience participation number, so if you have a family concert, this is ideal for that. You can omit the audience participation part if you like for more formal evening concerts (although you could do it anyway…). Audience participation version: consider programming it last in a concert. You begin by giving the audience a phony introduction to the piece, saying that this is a work for woodwind quintet plus fifty singers and fifty percussionists (make up your own numbers), because this is Latin American style music and it requires the voices and percussion to give it the proper setting, mood, blah blah. Look at your watch with some alarm and say, “The bus with the musicians