Dmitri Schostakowitsch

General Dance et Apotheosis

Russian, orchestral music at it's best arranged for Concert Band. The arrangement challenge the whole band, espescially the brass section.

The ballet 'The Bolt' was composed in 1930 -1931.
The title of the ballet means a bolt (a machine part commonly used in combination with a nut), and in this ballet there is a bolt in a place where it doesn`t belong. The work satirised bureaucratic snobs in the Soviet industrialisation drive. If something didn`t function within the proletarian machine, there was naturally a 'parasite' to blame. Following a lot of incidents, the ballet ends up with a concert and dance.