Christmas Football USA

Corey K. Rubin

General Info

Year: 2018
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Corey K. Rubin
Cost: Score and Parts - Contact composer for pricing

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

Bass Drum
Chimes
Crash Cymbals
Crotales
Finger Cymbals
Glockenspiel
Police Whistle
Roto-toms (2)
Sleigh Bells
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Tambourine
Tam-Tam
Tenor Drum
Tom-Tom (5)
Triangle
Vibraphone
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Christmas Football U.S.A., for symphonic band, originated as a joke -- a fake title I gave to a nonexistent piece of music, having been asked (in a college course titled “Career in Composition”) to caption the info for a work I might enclose in a (hypothetical) application portfolio of some kind. Almost a decade later, I decided to turn Christmas Football U.S.A. into a real piece, not because I was ready to sell out, but because I thought it would be fun to create a (mostly sarcastic) collage out of various musical styles suggested by the title, while also commenting on the sometimes volatile relationship between commercial success and the vaunted “career in composition.”

Christmas Football U.S.A. was written in 2018 and premiered in Bloomington, Indiana, by the Indiana University Symphonic Band with conductor Eric M. Smedley.

- Program Note by composer

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Indiana University (Bloomington) Symphonic Band (Eric M. Smedley, conductor) – 23 October 2018 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

After the Dazzle of Day (2013)
Christmas Football U.S.A. (2018)

Resources

Corey Rubin, personal correspondence, October 2018
Perusal score