Londonderry Air Closer

Londonderry Air CloserThis famous folk song originated in County Derry in Northern Ireland in the mid 1800's, first published in 1855. Though there are other settings for strings of this beautiful ballad already in print, this intense and concise David Bobrowitz arrangement captures the expressive moments inherent in the melody, and makes them approachable by less experienced orchestras. Enjoy this quest for truly moving musical moments with your students and audience.

Memorable melodies

and all instruments have their turns at the melody and opportunities for solos

This work may be performed any of three ways: orchestra with solo electric violin

) creates a nostalgic

and it would make a great concert opener or closer

the work takes a harmonic turn to an unrelated major key where the mood changes from one of lost opportunities to a sense of warm nostalgia

slow section builds into familiar

the tempo accelerates while the dynamic level crescendos as more and more voices join in on the melody

This is an arrangement of two keyboard works from Nannerl's Notebook

2) and a minuet by Leopold composed around the same time

The piece was inspired by watching the horses race at the Kentucky Derby and imagining the feeling of running as fast as possible

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