Call of the Cossacks (Wind Band)

is part of the series of travelogue features by Peter Graham, following in the footsteps of "Cry of the Celts" and "Windows of the World". The Cossacks were a nomadic people whose ethnic makeup included Ukrainians, Tartars, Poles and Jews. A similarly wide range of Eastern European folk music features in this work, from Gypsy to Klezmer.

 

- Movement 1, Procession of the Tartars is cast in the old-style band patrol and adapts a Klezmer folk song fun Tashlach.

- The second movement, Doyles lament, is an original melody featuring solo alto saxophone while the final movement, Cossack Wedding Dance, is deep in Fiddler on the Roof territory - a potpourri of Klezmer, Gypsy and Cossack styles. Each movement can be programmed separately.