Machu Picchu - City in the Sky The mystery of the hidden Sun Temple Satoshi Yagisawauration 1200 lem: Z0MS-A025 Machu Picchu - City in the Sky The mystery of the hidden Sun Temple Satoshi Yagisawa, Composer Commissioned for the Ensemble Liberte Wind Orchestra, Kawaguchi City, 30th Anniversary Concert Composer's Notes Explaining the significance of Machu Picchu begins with remombering the Incan ompize at its rath, and ita trace encounter with the Spanish conquistadors. The great 16% century empire that unified most of Andean South America had ae ste capital the golden ety of Cuneo. Irreistble to Francisco Pizarro, whe strippiag the city of massive quentiea of edt 1535 he also destroyed Cuzzc's Sun Temple, shrine ofthe funding dit of he Incan eization ‘While that at svubeized the end ofthe ecapize, 278 years later an archeologist fom Yale University, Hiram Bingham rediscovered "Machu Picchu’, a glorious meuntaintp Tnean city that had escaped the atention of the invaders, atthe caniral high point of the cty sande ta most portant shrine, the Tahuatans, or “hitching post of the sua" 2 column of stone rising fem a block of granite the sine ofa grand piano, wre a pint would “si the sun tothe sone” a¢ winter telstice to ingure its seasonal return Piading the last remaining Sun Temple af a great city inspired the belief th perhaps tho royal iseago ato away to this bly place duwing Paar’ conqusct ‘Aftr considering these remarkable deas I wished to musically describe that magailicent citadel and trace some ofthe ‘nysteries sealed in Machu Pichu's past Three principal leas dominate the piece: 1 the shimmering golden city of Cureo set in che dramatic asnery ofthe Andes, 2 the destrucivoneas af lent invasion, and 8) the re-emergence ofzcan glory 5 the City inthe Sky again reached for the sun. About Mr. Yagisawa Satoshi Yagisawa was born in 1975 and graduated fom Musashino Academia Musicee, where he completed his Master's Degete in Musi. He studiod composition with Kenjiro Urata Hitoshi Tanaka, and Hidebik Hagiwara, and trampet with ‘enji Sekine, His compositional engesinclede orchestral chamber and coir muse, Recenty is works deseribing nature tod ansiquty ace very popula, such 98 “A Tove 220m fr Wind Orchostn — nd Thea The Ocean Clbws", "Searing Over Tae Ridges ~ The Impression cf The North lps” "Moai ~The Seven Giant Statues Gazing at The Sun” and "The West ‘Symphony’ He wae periormed at WASBE (Singapore) in 2005, asa i active aba contest adjudiator, guest esnductr, performer, and author for music mugazines such xs "The Flute’, The Cliine”, and "The Sax", and is 2 member of “Prosperous Patre for Bao ins the 21a Centsry KYO-EN" earmpoces's fas Instrumentation 1 Piecats 1 Conta Ale Cant 2-9 Trombone 3-1 Fue 2 Ato Saxepene 3-182" Euphoniums 3-2" Fite 2. Pato Saxophone (4- Bass Tubs 2-142" cboee 2. Tenor Sexophone 1 -Sirng Bass 1 Engen Hors 1 Battone Saxophone tHe 2.182% asea00 3-1 Trumpet 2. Piano & Calaca 1 Conta Sassoon 3-2 Trumpet 1-Timpani 1 -ciarnetin ge 3-3" Trumpet 2A Percussion 3-1 Clana 4 Flgathern| 2.2% Percussion 3-2" Clr 21 RZ" Home 2.3% Patcuasion 3° 2 claret 2.388 A Horne 47 Porsuesion 2-42" Bass Cia 2-2" Trantone Coneustors Fut ScotDepa anhe Litt ei pREPReE BE pipegeg ieepoe i a i i tal tt iAiea eas.i pirei are Wee eeuniil cere & SUTTER HIT HH4 AWAD LAT