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Avenue X (exerpt)
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Performed by the LMEA All-State Concert Band.
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LMEA is the Louisiana Music Educator's Association. The songs featured are from Louisiana All-State groups as well as district groups and other LMEA ensembles. Some are from Concert and Symphonic Bands, Choir groups, Jazz ensembles, Orchestras, and other misc. groups. Enjoy!
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Genre
Classical • Ensembles
Charts
Peak #117
Peak in subgenre #14
Author
Jonathan Newman
Uploaded
January 04, 2008
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MP3 4.9 MB • 128 kbps • 5:20
Story behind the song
As the composer describes, "AVENUE X derives its title from my neighborhood subway line, and its labeled final destination: "Ave X". As I reside on Avenue C (and the highest letter in Manhattan itself is D), this always seemed a fantastic and otherworldly location to me. Turns out it's in a pretty trippy place anyway: Brooklyn's Coney Island -- home of an ancient and creaking wooden roller coaster (frightening only because of the fear of the entire structure collapsing at any moment), the country's last existing "side show", and of course (my favorite), the Nathan's Famous annual hot-dog eating contest. The piece is a journey there of sorts ... via a pentatonic blues progression and driving bass power chords more appropriate to a metal "hair" rock band chart-topper, AVENUE X takes a convoluted path of dreams, subways, roller coasters, freak shows, and edge-of-the-world fantasies."
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