Dance of the Death premiered in the Kungasalen from the KMH in Stockholm. September 25th, 2020. The Swedish Wind Ensemble conducted by Anders Emilsson.
This piece relates a story that I had in my mind and that I found interesting to turn it into music for a wind orchestra.
Some skeletons are coming out from their graves and they start a dance. While dancing they remember what was the feeling to be alive. But for a short time, because they have to come back to their graves again. I tried to explain this different situations and feelings with creepy motives and melodies, and with some instrumental effects. And even more important is the rhythmic aspect that stands out with a very important role in this piece, trying to represent the dance movements and the orthopedic steps of the skeletons.
Miquel De Jorge Artells 