Composed by Martin J. Van Klompenberg. This edition: pdf, streaming. 21st Century, Chamber, Classical. Score and part. 60 pages. Martin J. Van Klompenberg #1270815. Published by Martin J. Van Klompenberg (A0.1707005).
The hippopotamus has always interested me. I can clearly remember the first hippos I ever saw, at the Detroit Zoo and the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. After a slight ebb in my interest in adulthood, it came back alive with the birth of Fiona at the Cincinnati Zoo in January 2017. A severely premature birth, Fiona was not expected to live beyond a few days, let alone the eight years she has thrived.
My love of hippos led to my desire to tell the stories that deeply interested me, in a medium I deeply enjoy: The bassoon sonata. Each movement of this work tells the story of a different hippopotamus. The opening movement, The Most Famous Cincinnatian, tells of Fiona. The dark story of the unexpected early delivery, certain to lead to death of the newborn hippo, which brightened with every successive day that Fiona lived.
Broussard’s Idea tells the story of The American Hippo Act, an unsuccessful piece of legislation seeking to solve two problems in the United States at the turn of the 19th Century: The water hyacinth that choked the rivers of Louisiana, and the meat shortage throughout the country.
Malagasy Cryptid is about the now extinct Madagascar Pygmy Hippopotamus. Despite dying out roughly four hundred years ago, locals have made many claims that lone individuals might still live in the forest of the island nation.
The piece ends with Hipopótamo de Cocaína, about the hippos abandoned in the mountains of Colombia following the arrest of Pablo Escobar. These four individual’s have multiped into more than a hundred, wrecking havoc on the environment in the area.
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Composed by Martin J. Van Klompenberg. This edition: pdf, streaming. 21st Century, Chamber, Classical. Score and part. 60 pages. Martin J. Van Klompenberg #1270815. Published by Martin J. Van Klompenberg (A0.1707005).
The hippopotamus has always interested me. I can clearly remember the first hippos I ever saw, at the Detroit Zoo and the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. After a slight ebb in my interest in adulthood, it came back alive with the birth of Fiona at the Cincinnati Zoo in January 2017. A severely premature birth, Fiona was not expected to live beyond a few days, let alone the eight years she has thrived.
My love of hippos led to my desire to tell the stories that deeply interested me, in a medium I deeply enjoy: The bassoon sonata. Each movement of this work tells the story of a different hippopotamus. The opening movement, The Most Famous Cincinnatian, tells of Fiona. The dark story of the unexpected early delivery, certain to lead to death of the newborn hippo, which brightened with every successive day that Fiona lived.
Broussard’s Idea tells the story of The American Hippo Act, an unsuccessful piece of legislation seeking to solve two problems in the United States at the turn of the 19th Century: The water hyacinth that choked the rivers of Louisiana, and the meat shortage throughout the country.
Malagasy Cryptid is about the now extinct Madagascar Pygmy Hippopotamus. Despite dying out roughly four hundred years ago, locals have made many claims that lone individuals might still live in the forest of the island nation.
The piece ends with Hipopótamo de Cocaína, about the hippos abandoned in the mountains of Colombia following the arrest of Pablo Escobar. These four individual’s have multiped into more than a hundred, wrecking havoc on the environment in the area.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
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print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
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