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Huckleberry Finn Suite
Subtitle: Four Scenes from Mark Twain, Op. 33
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 13:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: De Haske Music
Cost: Score and Parts - €166.00 | Score Only - €32.50
Movements
1. A Lazy Town – 3:01
2. Jim – 3:25
3. The King and the Duke – 2:55
4. Huckleberry's Rag – 3:25
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Cabasa
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Tam-Tam
- Temple Block
- Triangle
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of the book, Huck definitively abandons the hypocrisy and cant on which he has been raised when he makes the shocking decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery. This suite portrays all the adventure of this great romantic novel and will delight performers and audience alike.
- Program Note from publisher
For Robert M. Gifford and the Southwest Missouri State University Wind Ensemble, in warmest friendship.
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Civica Filarmonica di Lugano (Franco Cesarini, conductor) - 2005
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan) Adult Band Camp (Thomas Riccobono, conductor) - 15 August 2021
- Heisey Wind Ensemble (Newark, Ohio) (Russel C. Mikkelson, conductor) – 27 October 2019
- Orcas Island (Eastsound, Wash.) Band (Jim Schaffer-Bauck, conductor) - 2 Jun 2018
- Aragon High School (San Mateo, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Troy Davis, conductor and narrator) - 15 October 2016
- San Jose Wind Symphony (Edward C. Harris, conductor; Walter M. Mayes, narrator) - 26 October 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Abysses
- Aida: Grand Finale
- Alpina Fanfare (1997)
- Antiche Danza Ed Arie Per Liuto
- Arizona (2014)
- Blue Horizons (2002)
- Bulgarian Dances (2011)
- Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (2013)
- Ceresio
- Convergents
- Cossack Folk Dances
- Ernani
- Greek Folk Song Suite (2002)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1995)
- Huckleberry Finn Suite (2005)
- Huntingtower (as arranger) (1932/1987)
- I Vespri Siciliani
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (as arranger) (1816/2011)
- Il Trovatore : Coro dei Gitani
- A Joyful Fanfare (2007)
- Jubilee Fanfare
- La Forza del Destino (as transcriber) (1862/1995)
- Le Cortège du Roi Renaud (1999/2021)
- MGB March
- Mountain Majesty
- Norma
- Poema Alpestre (1999)
- Piccola Suite Italiana (2005)
- Puss in Boots (2013)
- Renaissance Suite (2008)
- Solemnitas
- Symphonic Fanfare (2009)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Symphony No. 2 (2018)
- Symphony No. 3 (2021)
- Tom Sawyer Suite (2002)
- Triumphal March
- Un Ballo en Maschera
- Variations on a French Folk Song (2000)
Resources
- Cesarini, F. (2005). Huckleberry Finn Suite: Four Scenes from Mark Twain [score]. Mitropa Music: Hagendorn, Switzerland.