Cirque Excerpts

Posted by Andrew D Meyer on September 4, 2014 in Clarinet, Saxophone | 2 Comments

I’ve been working on some excerpts from a few different Cirque du Soleil shows lately. They’re available on their website  with backing tracks and the music is really interesting…and challenging! A lot of it definitely sounds like French circus music but there are many tunes with interesting world music sounds. It’s all very colorful stuff. Here are two of my favorites that i’ve been playing around with:

This first one is called ‘Benny’ from the show Mystere:

The second one is called ‘Skipping’ from Quidam: