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Ballroom Portraits
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General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 28:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Wingert-Jones
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $125.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Movements
1. Irene and Vernon Castle – 4:00
2. Harry Fox – 4:25
3. Elida Webb and Flournoy Miller – 4:15
4. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – 7:10
5. George Shorty Snowden – 7:55
Instrumentation
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ballroom Portraits was commissioned in memory of Walter Howard Snodgrass, longtime Idaho and Pacific Northwest school band director and officer in the National Music Educators Association. The Snodgrass family requested that this new piece be modeled upon Walt’s favorite band composition, Suite of Old American Dances, by the famous Broadway theater orchestrator, arranger, and composer, Robert Russell Bennett. The family also suggested that the melodic and harmonic material be derived from a song written by Walter in 1941 for his wife-to-be, Doris.
The first music you hear in Movement 1 presents both Walt’s song and an echo of the introduction to Suite of Old American Dances. As in the Robert Russell Bennett original, Ballroom Portraits has five movements, each a representation of the dancer or dance couple and the dance/dance-steps they are associated with:
1. Irene and Vernon Castle “The Castle Walk” (1912)
2. Harry Fox “Fox’s Trot” (1913)
3. Elida Webb and Flournoy Miller “The Charleston” (1923)
4. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers “The Motion Picture Waltz” (1933)
5. George “Shorty” Snowden “The Lindy Hop” or “Jitterbug” (1936)
- Program Note from liner notes of Mark CD Music of Daniel Bukvich
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony (Andrew Boysen Jr., conductor)
- Audio CD: University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony (Andrew Boysen Jr., conductor) - 2013
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by this Composer
- 12873465 (2004)
- Agincourt Hymn (1987)
- Ballroom Portraits (2015)
- Before Thy Throne I Now Appear (as arranger) (1750/1993)
- Buffalo Jump Ritual (2002)
- Casco Bay
- Celebrate Celebration (1995)
- Changing Concepts
- A Child's Dream of a Star
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestral Winds (1992)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (2009)
- Cowboys (1996)
- Dinosaurs (1991)
- The Dream of Abraham (1993/1994)
- Electricity (1997)
- Fanfare for 1990 Goodwill Games (1990)
- Fanfare for a Great Circle
- Fanfare in Song Form
- Four Phrases from Psalm 91
- The Haunted Mine (2010)
- Hymn of St. Francis (1993)
- In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945. See: Symphony No. 1, "In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945"
- Inferno (2010)
- Jack Teagarden Enters Heaven (1997)
- Maine Vigils
- March of the Children's Guard (1997)
- Meditations on the Writings of Vasily Kandinsky (1996)
- Music for Percussion and Band (1996)
- Night City - Music for the Imaginary Film (1983)
- Rhythm
- Scenes from Childhood (1983)
- Song Suite for Band (1988)
- Surprise, Pattern, Illusion: Prehistoric Cave Ceremonies (1985)
- Symphony No. 1, "In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945" (1993)
- Three Phrases from Yugoslav Folk Songs (2003)
- Threnos (2000)
- Time Travel (1997)
- Tower of the Winds (2010)
- Unusual Behavior in Ceremonies Involving Drums (1999)
- The Virgin and Child With St. Anne
- Voodoo (1984)
- Xylophone Concerto (1979)
Resources
- Daniel Bukvich website – Accessed 19 September 2022