Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.807939

Composed by Aram Kachaturian. Arranged by Timothy Stapay, Liberace. Broadway,Classical,Film/TV,Folk,Musical/Show,Opera. Score. 9 pages. Timothy Stapay #414973. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.807939).

This is an arrangement of Sabre Dance from Gayne Ballet Suite. It is arranged as performed by legendary piano showman, Liberace. Now you can learn to play this classic piano solo, in the same flamboyant style as Liberace. Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured one of the less up-tempo sections of the Gayane third suite (the Adagio). The composer James Horner quoted from this same piece in three of his film scores, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and Aliens. The Adagio was also used, among other pieces by Khachaturyan, in Tinto Brass's Caligula. The Sabre Dance features prominently in the 1961 film One, Two, Three directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Cagney, as well as in Woody Allen's 2006 film Scoop. It has also been used in numerous other movies, TV shows, and video games. Because of its feverish tempo, the music has long been a staple of novelty acts such as plate twirling. It is also used as the introductory and promotional theme for the professional hockey team, the Buffalo Sabres.