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Woodsmithery (2023) for Concert Band by Coleman Rowlett

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Woodsmithery

Michael Schelle
THE EISENSTEIN MUMMERS (2018)
- for chamber ensemble

Written for the "Bang on a Roomful of Teeth All Stars"
Jay Young, tenor sax
Miho Sasaki & Dianna Davis, accordions
Gregory Martin, piano
Richard Auldon Clark, viola
William Grubb, cello
David Murray, doublebass
Michael Schelle & Jeff Queen, percussion
Vu Nguyen, conductor

A fusion of multiple influences, the piece primarily draws on two :

1. the annual New Year's Day Mummers Parade in Philadelphia (my birth city) 
The Mummers Parade = outrageous costumes, wild crazy music (with lots 
of accordions and saxophones!!), and

2. the iconic 1923 experimental film "Glumov's Diary", a 5:00 Dada 
masterpiece conceived, written, produced and directed by the notorious 
Sergei Eisenstein. An early pioneer of cross cut editing and collage 
("Battleship Potemkin", "Strike", "Alexander Nevsky", "Thunder Over 
Mexico", etc.), Eisenstein's first film (Glumov) forever changed the 
industry and the art.

World premiere: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - Indianapolis

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFuG-9eIYYw

Glumov : www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2TeqpxVzhU

Schelle website: www.schellemusic.com

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THE EISENSTEIN MUMMERS (2018), for chamber ensemble

Social Distance recording with Sharon Paterson, piano

Woodsmithery

Coleman Rowlett

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