HUNTER

A homage to Robert Flaherty

by
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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Instrumentation

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.]