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Overture: St. John's 1828
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A seedy St. John's street, foggy. Evening. September 1828. a dirty, slovenly, evil, drunken, and lecherous St. John's street. Close to the harbour, it teems with those who make a living from the sailors who have come ashore
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Concert Band Community Band Nepean Ottawa Ontario
Nepean Concert Band (NCB) are Wednesday evenings, 7:30to 9:30 PM, at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road, Ottawa, Ontario. The NCB is always open to new members. The NCB is a provincially-registered non-profit organization and depends upon membership fees, concert revenue, and sponsorship from patrons in the public and private sectors, to pay for the necessities such as conductor's honorarium, rehearsal space rental, equipment maintenance and the purchase of quality concert band arrangements.
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Genre
Classical • Ensembles
Charts
Peak #212
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Benjamin Bolden
Uploaded
November 02, 2014
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MP3 4.9 MB • 128 kbps • 5:18
Story behind the song
When European settlers first arrived in Newfoundland, on the eastern coast of the new world, they encountered the Beothuk people. By 1829, the last Beothuk was dead. A seedy St. John's street, foggy. Evening. September 1828. A single skin drum sounds a slow and ominous four-beat pattern. The curtain opens on a dirty, slovenly, evil, drunken, and lecherous St. John's street. Close to the harbour, it teems with those who make a living from the sailors who have come ashore. The beat of the drum remains steady, but the rhythm changes to that of a 6/8 bodhran rhythm. The music is in a minor mode, Celtic and fast. The harbour parasites sing; they sell their wares, the dark rum, and themselves...
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