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Clowns! Clowns! Clowns!
General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 3:10
Difficulty: III+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Grand Mesa Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I/C Piccolo
Flute II
Oboe
Bassoon
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
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Cowbell
- Crash Cymbals
- Floor Toms (high and low)
- Mallets
- Snare Drum
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
It's a day at the circus: animals; popcorn; acrobats; daredevils and, of course, clowns. Tight harmonies, chromatics, off-beat playing and effective percussion scoring give this clever concert selection a tribute to those fun-spirited people who have given us all a reason to smile.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio CD: Dobyns-Bennett High School Symphonic Band (Bruce Moss, conductor) - 2009
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Foothill Pops Band – 2011
- Dobyns-Bennett High School (Kingsport, Tenn.) Symphonic Band (Bruce Moss, conductor) – 18 December 2009 (2009 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Caribbean Carnival (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (Flex instrumentation)(as arranger) (2004/2020)
All Wind Works
- All Trails Lead West (2007)
- Allegro from "Symphony No. 10" (as arranger) (c. 1770/2015)
- American Gothic (2009)
- American Ramble (2016)
- Balfour Castle (2009)
- Caribbean Carnival (2007)
- Caribbean Carnival (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
- A Chanukah Celebration (arr. Soper) (1995)
- City of Glass and Steel (2006)
- Clowns! Clowns! Clowns! (2009)
- The Comic (2012)
- A Concert Fanfare (2016)
- Diamond Falls (2013)
- Divertimento for Tuba and Band (2013)
- Fantasy on "March Slav" (as arranger) (1876/2019)
- Festival at Camelot (2017)
- Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1 (as arranger) (1862-76/2019)
- Grand Central Station (2016)
- The Iron Horse Across America (2009)
- The Iron Pagoda (2016)
- Irish Fantasy (2013)
- Luminosity and Other Colorations (1995)
- The Mall of America (2009)
- March of the Trolls (2007)
- Midnight Fair (2018)
- Mission: Explore Strange New Worlds (2010)
- Mozart: Symphony No. 29, First Movement (as arranger) (1774/2013)
- A New Orleans Moment (2012)
- A Night in Budapest (2016)
- Oceanic Scenes (2004)
- Procession at Bayham Old Abbey (2017)
- Ragtimeout (2017)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (as arranger) (2004)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2004/2020)
- Sonidos de Sevilla (2009)
- Symphony No. 1: Finale (as arranger). See: Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 29: First Movement (as arranger). See: Mozart: Symphony No. 29, First Movement
- The Traffic Circle (2017)
- Variations on "Russian Sailor's Dance" (as arranger)
- The Visionary (2006)
- Viva Mexico! (2015)
- Wheels (2016)
- Whodunit? (2004)
Resources
- David Bobrowitz website Accessed 8 July 2021
- Perusal score