• Karel Husa
  • Cheetah (2007)

  • Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • 3(pic).2+ca.3+Ebcl+acl+bcl+cbcl.2asx+tsx+barsx.2/4.4.4+euph.1/timp.4perc/db
  • 6 min

Programme Note

Premiere:
8 March 2007
University of Louisville Wind Symphony
Frederick Speck, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Note:
Cheetah was commissioned by the Division of Music Composition and Theory at the University of Louisville for the University of Louisville Wind Ensemble, Frederick Speck — Director.

It is a portrait of a magnificent wild animal, now an Endangered Species — its colors, movements, power, speed — and finally, exhaustion after an unsuccessful chase.

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Cheetah

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