Roger Boutry (1932–2019)
Performed on bass tuba in F.
Boutry, composer, conductor and pianist, began study and the Paris Conservatory in 1944 where he received first prizes in solfège (1944), piano (1948), harmony (1949), chamber music (1949), piano accompaniment (1950), fugue (1951), counterpoint (1951), conducting (1953) and composition (1954), He was a winner of the Prix de Rome in 1954. From 1962 to 1997 he taught harmony at the Paris Conservatory. His conducting career began with the Opéra de Monte-Carlo followed by appointments with the Brussels R.A.T.B., Rome R.A.I., Concerts Colonne, Orchestre Lamoureux, and Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup. From 1973 to 1997 he was also the music director of the Republican Guard.
Merriam-Webster defines bacchanale as a dance marked by voluptuousness or pagan abandon and Boutry's work lives up to that definition. This lively work has several contrasting sections that make use of a valved instrument's ability to play fast slurred passages. This work is also dedicated to Paul Bernard and has been recorded by French tubist David Maillot.