Club Europe
Subtitle: Tour for Band
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Studio Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £60.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo (optional)
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
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-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (optional)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Crash Cymbals
- Maracas
- Side Drum
- Tambourine
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Club Europe (Tour for Band) was commissioned in 2002 by Club Europe Concert Tours for the Belgian Young Bands Festival and Italian Young Bands Festival for a work suitable for performance by intermediate youth bands. The work is intended to be a warm hearted and thoroughly positive concert overture without a hint of bombasity or pretension. The composer imagined himself looking out of a tour bus window at various stages of a European holiday and reflecting in musical terms on the sights and experiences he both saw and imagined. This joie de vivre overture takes time in the central slow section to reflect on other, somewhat more pastoral, qualities observed on such a trip.
- Program Note adapted from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Cinco Rancho Junior High School Honors Band (Rory L. Davis, conductor) - 2004
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Cinco Rancho Junior High School (Katy, Tx.) Honors Band (Rory L. Davis, conductor) – 16 December 2004 (2004 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Cane River Murals (2012)
- Clarinet Concerto (2001)
- Club Europe (2002)
- The Cries of London (2005)
- Divertimento for Wind Dectet (1999/2001)
- Dona Nobis Pacem (1995)
- Elgar Variations (2007/2009)
- Evocations (1996/2001)
- Five Manx Romances (2017)
- From Kitty Hawk to the Stars (2002)
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (2022)
- Malcolm Arnold Variations (2008)
- Menorcan Dances (2019)
- Natalis (1993/2006)
- New World Dances (1999)
- Northumbrian Dances (2019/2021)
- Ovation (2001)
- Paris Sketches (1994)
- Paris Sketches (ed. Reynish) (1994/2004)
- Prelude for Hampstead Heath (1990)
- Requiescant Aberfan (2009)
- Roman Trilogy (2014)
- A Silent Movie Suite (2013)
- A Soliliquy for Solferino (2012)
- Swiss Family Robinson Suite (as arranger) (1960/2006)
- Symphony for Winds (1997)
- Tales from Andersen (2006)
- Tristan Encounters (1998/2007)
- Tuba Concerto (1988/1991)
- Venetian Spells (1984)
- Via Crucis (2006)
- Wassail Dances (2018)
- Wessex Dances (2021)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Martin Ellerby website Accessed 29 January 2022