Celestial Horses: Fanfare & Fugue

Facsimile Study Score
• PEFVHCH
• 40 pages
• Performance material available for rent

Contents

1 Celestial Horses: Fanfare & Fugue by Vincent Ho

Written as a concert opener for Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra at the request of Rune Bergmann, Ho was inspired by a photograph taken by Walt De Boni of galloping Hungarian horses. With brass, percussion and organ on stage in addition to brass spatialised around the concert hall surrounding the audience with music evoking the sound of galloping horses amid the fanfare.

About the composer

Vincent Ho

Vincent Ho is a Canadian who is widely recognised as one of the most exciting composers of his generation. He has made waves in the music world of North America despite being fairly early in his compositional career, receiving numerous prizes, accolades, and prominent commissions in a relatively short space of time. Ho’s music is rich and energetic - a unique integration of influences ranging from the visual arts, electroacoustic and natural soundscapes, traditional classical music forms, and the physical properties of the instruments and ensembles for which he writes. His music is sensual, sonorous and richly textured, and Ho gives considerable attention to the audience’s experience of his intricate sound-worlds.