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Intrada 1631 (2003)
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For brass choir and four drummers, with optional additions - c.6'
Intrada 1631 was inspired by a concert of early South American liturgical music directed by Jeffery Skidmore at the Dartington International Summer Music School in the summer of 2001. One of the most moving and memorable works in the programme was a Hanacpachap cussicuinin, a 17th century catholic liturgical chant written in Quechua, the native language of the Incas. The music was composed by a Franciscan missionary priest called Juan Perez Bocanegra who lived and worked in Cuzco (Peru), a small village east of Lima in the Jauja Valley during the early 17th century. Intrada 1631 uses Bocanegra's 20 bar hymn as the basis for an expanded processional scored for the modern forces of a symphonic brass choir with field drums.
Notes © Stephen Montague