Musical Highlights from Chess : For Band. Musical Highlights from 'Chess' (with Benny Andersson, arr.Harmoniecorps Tuindorp Amsterdam (Bert Willemsen, conductor) - 2016.Amador County (Pine Grove, Calif.) Concert Band (Ernie Kapphahn, conductor) –.A pressure pot or air compressor is necessary to cast the resin. To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project From the album CHESS THE ORIGINAL RECORDING by Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Bjrn Ulvaeus. Released and staged at the height of the strong anti-communist agenda that came to be known as the 'Reagan Doctrine', Chess addressed and satirized the hostility of the international political atmosphere of the 1980s. The musical has been referred to as a metaphor for the whole Cold War, with the insinuation being made that the Cold War is itself a manipulative game. Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any real individuals, the character of the American grandmaster (named Freddie Trumper in the stage version) was loosely based on Bobby Fischer, while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.Ĭhess was a significant and powerful piece of music theater for its time as it allegorically reflected the Cold War tensions present in the 1980s. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War–era chess tournament between two grandmasters from America and the USSR and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)Ĭost: Score and Parts (print) - €220.54 | Score Only (print) - €33.31Ĭhess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a book by Richard Nelson based on an idea by Rice.

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