Circus Suite
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General Info
Year: 1985 / 1996
Duration: c. 16:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stormworks Europe
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €210.00 | Score Only (print) - €50.00
Movements
1. Entry Music – 3:00
2. Clowns - 2:20
3. Rope Dancer – 2:45
4. Juggler – 2:15
5. Trapeze Artist – 3:30
6. Finale – 1:30
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Frigyes Hidas's Circus Suite is a musical voyage in an evening performance. The first movement, Entry Music,the proud parade of performers promenade before the audience. Clowns, the second movement is filled with the colors of jocularity through the excursions of the clowns. The Rope Dancer movement is a very graceful high-wire act depicted by the euphonium solo. A technical interesting act for the clarinets is found in The Juggler movement. An exciting and breathtaking fifth movement shows the Trapeze Artist at his high point in a successful Salto Mortale. On the finale we revisit the parade of performers as this great circus night ends.
- Program Note by World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE)
Awards
- Circus Suite has been recommended as interesting, serious and distinctive music by members of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).
Media
- Audio CD: The Budapest Symphonic Band (Laszlo Marosi, conductor) - 1996
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Győr (Hungary) Symphonic Band (Ferenc Szabó, conductor) – 28 April 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Capriccio (1979/1995/2015)
- Circus Suite (1985/1996)
- Concerto for Bassoon (1999)
- Concerto No. 2 for Oboe (1998/2000)
- Concerto for Oboe (arr. Patterson)
- Concerto for Wind Band
- Coriolanus (1980)
- Divertimento (1985/1993)
- Etude for Wind Band
- Fantasy and Fugue
- Fantasy (1999)
- Folksong Suite No. 1 (1985)
- Folksong Suite No. 2 (1988)
- Merry Music (1983)
- Pictures of South Africa (2014)
- Requiem
- Rhapsody (1983)
- Save the Sea (1998)
- Suite
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Frigyes Hidas." Accessed 30 July 2016
- Hidas, F. [19--?]. Circus Suite [score]. Editio Musica: Budapest.
- "CIRCUS SUITE by Frigyes Hidas (Hungary)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 20 January 2020). Accessed 17 January 2023