Celebration Overture (Jacobs)

Gordon Jacob

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Subtitle: 10,000 Men of Harvard

General Info

Year: 1984
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $76.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.50

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Jacob's music reflects his love for simple lyrical, folk-like melodies and craftman-like orchestration. Celebration Overture, based on 10,000 Men of Harvard, was Gordon Jacob's last completed work. It was written for the 65th anniversary concert of the Harvard University Wind Band

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Media

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State Ratings

Oklahoma: IV-A
Tennessee: IV
Virginia: IV

Performances

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Clark College (Vancouver, Wash.) Concert Band (Doug Harris, conductor) – 13 March 2020
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) Wind Band (Thomas Everett, conductor) – 2 November 1984 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

The Battell (as transcriber) (1964)
Cameos for Bass Trombone and Wind Band (1978)
Celebration Overture (1984)
Concerto for Band (1969)
Concerto for Bassoon and Strings (or Band) (1948)
Concerto for Horn (tr. Rogers) (1951)
Concerto for Timpani and Band (1984/1988)
Concerto for Trombone (1956/1995)
Concerto for Trombone (arr. Denis Wick) (1956/1999)
Divertimento in E-flat for Wind Octet (1969)
Double Concerto for Clarinet and Trumpet and Band (1929/1979/1983)
Fantasia for Euphonium and Band (1969/1973)
Fantasia on an English Folk Song (1984)
Fantasia on the Alleluia Hymn (arr. Wagner) (1949/2012)
First Saxophone Quartet. See: Saxophone Quartet No. 1
Flag of Stars (1956)
Giles Farnaby Suite (1922/1967)
Moorside March (as arranger) (1928/1960)
More Old Wine in New Bottles (1978)
Music for a Festival (1951)
- Interludes
Old Wine in New Bottles (1958)
An Original Suite (1928)
Overture: Alexandra Palace (1975/1994)
Prelude to a Comedy (1981)
Saxophone Quartet No. 1 (1974)
Saxophone Quartet No. 2 (1979)
Second Saxophone Quartet. See: Saxophone Quartet No. 2
Sir Godfrey Kneller's March (1976)
Suite in B-flat (1955/1979)
Sweet Nightingale (1984)
Symphony AD 78 (1978)
Tribute to Canterbury (1972/1977)
William Byrd Suite (1924/1960)
William Byrd Suite (ed. Trachsel) (1924/1960/2007)

Resources

"Celebration Overture." Gordon Jacob. Web. Accessed 14 March 2020
Jacob, G. (1985). Celebration Overture: For Symphonic Concert Band or Wind Ensemble [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: [s.l.].