George: Saddle Up!

• Composer: Ryan George
• Instrumentation: Concert Band
• Work: Saddle Up! (2025)
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• Pages: None

Description

As the sun hangs low over a boundless desert, a lone rider appears on the horizon, their shadow stretching long across the plain

Saddle Up! is a musical tip-of-the-hat to the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. At it's peak, some 600 Westerns were filmed not in Hollywood, but across Italy, and Spain. Led by directors like Sergio Leone, these films told the tales of the sun-bleached nameless rider, of dusty frontier towns, of lawmen, outlaws, and the unforgiving landscapes of the Old-West.