Sorcery Suite, op. 112 - WBBDM02059 | Music

- PERMANENTLY OUT OF PRINT -

In the fall of 1999, composer James Barnes began reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", by British writer J.K. Rowling, each evening at bedtime to his son, Billy, who was at that time five years of age. Since then, they have read all of the existing novels-twice. Billy was and remains enthralled by all the marvelous characters of these wonderful books. During Billy's frequent visits to his father's work studio-better known around the Barnes house-hold as the dungeon, in the most "Potterian" sense of that term-Billy would ask his father to play music describing the different characters of these books. He would sit on his father's lap as his dad improvised music describing Hogwarts Castle, Hagrid the Gamekeeper, the kind but rather nebulous Professor Dumbledore, the insidious Professor Snape, and the excitement of a Quidditch match played out on magic brooms in mid-air. This musical ideas began to develop into full movements that, with the permission of Warner Bros. Publications, Mr. Barnes has formed into a five-movement suite for band. The sketches for this work were completed in April of 2001, and the full score was completed in June of 2001.

Content:
I. The Little Boy And The Castle
II. The Bumbling Gamekeeper
III. The Greatest Of All The Wizards
IV. Professor Of Potions (With Ill-Tempered Notions)
V. Imagine A Game Played In Mid-Air!