Devil’s Promenade

Composer: BALLARD, Louis Wayne
  • “Devil’s Promenade” is the Quapaw reservation near Quapaw, Oklahoma where Louis Wayne Ballard was born.
  • Written in 1973, the orchestral work Devil’s Promenade was commissioned by the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra to commemorate its silver anniversary season, Jubilee ’73.
  • The piece requires 10 Native American percussion instruments: water drum, war drum, Seneca cow-horn rattle, seashell rattles, tom-tom, and a Dakota drum.1

Sources

  1. Karl Erik Ettinger, “Louis W. Ballard: Composer and Music Educator,” (PhD Diss., University of Florida, 2014), 49-160.

Cut IDs

25747