JACKHAMMER HERACLES by Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

JACKHAMMER HERACLES (2021)
- for alto sax and piano

Written for Joshua Heaney

Heracles (aka Herakles) was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of
Zeus and Alcmene. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of
masculinity, extraordinary strength, courage, ingenuity, and sexual prowess
with both males and females. There was also a tender, sympathetic side. He
was the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι),
and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters.
Like Heracles (née Hercules / Roman) - and like a jackhammer -
the piece is just damn loud and aggressive all the time (until m. 88)

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