Polytechnique
Jonathan Dagenais
Ensemble: Wind Orchestra
Grade: 5
Duration: 16:00
Year of Composition: 2011
Commissioned by: Hafabra Music
Publisher: Hafabra
Year of Publication: 2011
Publisher Catalog Number: 515
Available: Yes
How to Acquire: Publisher, Purchase
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Piccolo/Flute 3
Flutes 1,2
Oboe 1
Oboe 2/English Horn
Bassoons 1,2
Bb Clarinets 1,2,3
Bb Bass Clarinet
Eb Alto Sax 1 / Bb Soprano Sax
Eb Alto Sax 2
Bb Tenor Sax
Eb Baritone Sax
Bb Trumpets 1,2,3
Horns 1,2
Horns 3,4
Trombones 1,2,3
Euphoniums 1,2
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Mallet Percussion 1,2
Percussion 1,2
Commissioned by Hafabra Music (Louis Martinus) in collaboration with Biblioservice Gelderland / Music Department MUI, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Program Notes:
Content warning: gender-based violence
Polytechnique is a work dedicated to the 14 victims of the Polytechnique massacre that took place on December 6, 1989 in Montreal. It is the story of a man standing in the middle of an immense space covered with an oppressive dark and dense fog. Standing alone in the middle of his opaque and confused psyche, reduced to a fear that only leads to hatred. It is also the story of fourteen young women standing against a white wall. Standing and terrified, in the middle of a nightmarish storm. Standing and terrified. Then stretched out and unconscious in front of a red wall. Pierced, forever motionless and light ... This is the story of fourteen young souls floating calmly between heaven and earth on the immutable ocean of the Incomprehensible. It is at the heart of the troubling abysses of humanity of this ocean that Polytechnique, the second large-scale opus of the young composer Jonathan Dagenais, plunges us.
(Hafabra Music)
