Price, Andrea - Enter the Dance

Commissioned by Sheona White and premiered by Sheona and Salford University Brass Band in 2013, Enter the Dance is a lively, virtuosic tenor horn solo. The piece was inspired by the stone circles of Celtic legend, where unsuspecting passers-by would be enticed into a circle to join the "Lords and Ladies" of faerie folk lore in their dance - never to be seen again. The dance-like outer sections frame a beautiful slow melody that requires good breath control and sensitive, lyrical phrasing.