Agrell, Jeffrey % Circus Etudes (score & parts) - WW5

Circus Etudesfor woodwind quintet: flute (piccolo), oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoonby Jeffrey Agrell - American composer and hornist About the Music Come one, come all, under the musical big top to experience the exciting extravaganza of extraordinary death-defying acts gathered from the four corners of the globe, no expense spared to bring you the greatest circus spectacle in the history of the world! In movement 1, "Dancing Elephants," a plethora of agile pachyderms do their best to produce pirouettes, jetés, and arabesques for a perhaps overly-idealistic trainer. At one point, the demands of the latter become overwhelming and chaos ensues. But order is finally restored, and the dancing elephants take one more nearly graceful turn around the ring before departing to thunderous applause. After that exceedingly serious act it is time for some comic relief, provided by movement 2, "Clowns". These masters of slapstick and pratfall use every zany antic in their repertoire to elicit grin