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Riding to Olwen (2016)
Wind Orchestra 

Difficulty: 5
Duration: c. 4 minutes

Publisher: Tom Davoren Music

Riding to Olwen was composed in 2016 for the University of Nevada Las Vegas Wind Orchestra and their director Prof. Thomas Leslie.

The piece falls into a specific area of my output focusing on stories from ‘The Mabinogion’, a book of Welsh folklore and earliest recorded prose literature in the British Isles. Olwen is the beautiful daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden Pencawr. A spell of infatuation for Olwen is cast on Prince Cullwch son of Cilydd, who is then charged by the giant with completing a series of impossible tasks to win her hand. This music is Tom’s imagining of the riding of Cullwch and his knight’s on their first quest; rampant, adrenaline field and laced with anticipation.  The opening theme (Olwen’s theme) and subject matter is also the focus of my trumpet sonata, ‘Trails for Olwen.’
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