HUNTER
A homage to Robert Flaherty
Derek Healey
Ensemble: Wind Band
Duration: 12:00
Year of Composition: 2013
Publisher: self-published
Available: Yes
How to Acquire: Composer
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Winds and Percussion
In three continuous sections:
I. Figures in a Barren Landscape
II. The Hunt
III. Songs after the Hunt
Program Notes:
Inspired by man's battle for survival in an unforgiving terrain. [The music] is largely based on motives from Inuit Song. (Derek Healey)
[Editor's note: Robert Flaherty's quasi-documentary film Nanook of the North has been both praised and criticized for its depiction of Inuit peoples, with Flaherty acknowledging that many aspects of the film were staged or fictionalized. The provenance of the Inuit songs used in HUNTER, and whether permission was asked and received to use them in this way, is unclear.]