Pineapple Poll

From Wind Repertory Project
Sir Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan (arr. Charles Mackerras and William James Duthoit)


Subtitle: Suite from the Ballet


General Info

Year: 1951 / 2005
Duration: c. 12:35
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts - $85.00   |   Score Only - $12.00


Movements

1. Opening Number - 3:50
2. Jasper's Dance - 3:20
3. Poll's Dance - 1:15
4. Finale - 3:20


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
C Flute
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-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 B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Snare Drum
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Bells
  • Tambourine
  • Triangle
  • Xylophone


Errata

In Parts (1952 edition):

  • Flute, Mvt. 1, 2 bars before Reh. 12, beat 2: Dotted eighth/sixteenth note should read 2 eighth notes
  • Oboe, Mvt. 1, 10 bars after Reh. 11, beat 1: Dotted eighth/sixteenth note should read 2 eighth notes
  • Oboe, Mvt. 1, 12 bars after Reh. 11, beat 1: Dotted eighth/sixteenth note should read 2 eighth notes
  • B-flat Soprano Clarinet I, Mvt. 4, 7 bars after Reh. 2, beat 4&: D should read E
  • B-flat Soprano Clarinet I, Mvt. 4, 15 bars after Reh. 6: Add: reh. 7 "Alla breve (half note = 84)"
  • B-flat Soprano Clarinet I, Mvt. 4, 16 bars after Reh. 6: Delete: reh. 7 "Alla breve (half note = 84)"
  • Bassoon I, Mvt. 1, 1 bar before Reh. 6: Quarter rest should read 2 eighth notes
  • E-flat Alto Saxophone I, Mvt. 1, 3 bars before Reh. 1, beat 1&: 3rd sixteenth note G should read F-sharp
  • E-flat Alto Saxophone I, Mvt. 1, 12 bars after Reh. 12, beats 12: First three sixteenth notes should read eighth notes
  • E-flat Alto Saxophone I, Mvt. 4, 1 bar before Reh. 3, beat 1: Dotted eighth/sixteenth notes should read 2 eighth notes
  • B-flat Tenor Saxophone, Mvt. 2, 9 bars after Reh. 1: Add reh. 2
  • B-flat Tenor Saxophone, Mvt. 2, 13 bars before End: Add reh. 3
  • E-flat Baritone Saxophone, Mvt. 2, m.24: Add reh. 1
  • E-flat Baritone Saxophone, Mvt. 2, m.25: Delete reh. 1
  • E-flat Baritone Saxophone, Mvt. 2, 13 after Reh. 2: Add reh. 3
  • B-flat Cornet I, Mvt. 1, 6 bars before Reh. 9, beat 1: C should read B-flat
  • B-flat Cornet I, Mvt. 4, 3 bars before Reh. 4, beat 3: A should read G
  • Horn in F I-II, Mvt. 2, 1-2 bars after Reh. 1: Correct ties to match 3rd & 4th Horn pat. Correct score also
  • Horn in F I-II, Mvt. 4, 5 bars after Reh. 1, beats 1-2: Correct rhythm to play on off-beats: eighth rest - eighth note - eighth rest - eighth note
  • Horn in F III-IV, Mvt. 3, 10 bars before End, beat 1: Add ties from preceding measure
  • Trombone I, Mvt. 2, 3 bars after Reh. 1, beat 1: A should read G [*Note: 2005 edition retains the A]
  • Euphonium treble clef, Mvt. 1, 1 bar before Reh. 9, beat 1: B-flat 4 should read E-flat 4 (first staff line)
  • Euphonium treble clef, Mvt. 4, 4 bars before Reh. 4, beat 1: First beat should be dotted-8th, 16th, not 8th, 8th.
  • Euphonium bass clef, Mvt. 1, 3-4 bars after Reh. 6, beat 2: C should read A-flat [*Note: 2005 edition retains the C]
  • Basses, Mvt. 2, 4 bars before Reh. 1, beat 1: Quarter note should read eighth note
  • Basses, Mvt. 3, 3 bars after Reh. 2: Delete reh. 3
  • Basses, Mvt. 3, 9 bars after Reh. 2: Add reh. 3

In Parts and Score (2005 edition):

  • B-flat Cornet I, Mvt. 4, m.40, beat 3: A should read G


Program Notes

The ballet Pineapple Poll is a spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. The plot is based upon The Bumboat Woman's Story of Gilbert's Bab Ballads, which was later developed by Gilbert into H.M.S. Pinafore. The story evolves around Pineapple Poll and her colleagues who are all madly in love with the captain of the good ship H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. In order to gain admittance to the ship, they disguise themselves in sailors' clothes, a fact which is kept secret from the audience until near the end of the ballet.

According to Charles Mackerras, the British conductor who arranged this ballet, "The score is a patchwork quilt of tunes from most of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Every bar of Pineapple Poll, even the short bridge passages, is taken from some opera or other." Pineapple Poll was first performed in March 1951 by the Sadler Wells Theater Ballet.

- Program Note from Program Notes for Band


Sir Arthur Sullivan was the son of a military band clarinetist who was the first professor of clarinet when the Royal Military School of Music opened in England at Sandhurst in 1857. Sullivan’s light operas, written to William Gilbert’s libretti over about twenty-five years from 1871, delighted the public and made a fortune for both men and their impresario D’Oyly Carte.

The ballet Pineapple Poll is a spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. In 1950, the copyright on Sullivan’s music expired. One of the first to exploit this opportunity was Sadler’s Wells, who staged the ballet set exclusively to music by Sullivan, arranged by a young Charles Mackerras. During the war, Mackerras had played oboe in the pit of a Sydney theater, where they produced all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas except for Utopia and Grand Duke, the only two not represented in the ballet.

- Program Note by the Brigham Young University Wind Symphony concert program, 5 March 2015


Media


State Ratings

  • Florida: VI
  • Georgia: VI
  • Kansas: VI
  • Louisiana: V
  • Minnesota: I
  • South Carolina: VI
  • Texas: III. Any movement
  • Texas: IV. At least two movements


Performances

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  • Syracuse (N.Y.) University Wind Ensemble (Bradley P. Ethington, conductor) - 24 September 2023
  • Austin (Tx.) Symphonic Band (Kyle Glaser, conductor) - 14 February 2023
  • Youngstown (Ohio) State University Wind Ensemble (Michael Butler, conductor) – 29 January 2023 (Severance Music Center, Cleveland)
  • Cleveland (Ohio) Winds (Birch Browning, conductor) – 20 November 2022
  • Tyler (Tx.) Junior College Wind Ensemble (Eddie W. Airheart, conductor) - 18 November 2021
  • East Tennessee State University (Johnson City) Wind Ensemble (Joe D. Moore, conductor) - 6 May 2021
  • Texas Tech University (Lubbock) Symphonic Band (Eric Allen, conductor) - 1 April 2021
  • West Virginia University (Morgantown) Wind Symphony (Scott Tobias, conductor) - 30 March 2021
  • Manhattan (N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Sarah Fernandez, conductor) – 7 March 2020
  • Amador Valley High School (Pleasanton, Calif.) Wind Ensemble I (Jonathan Grantham, conductor) - 20 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
  • Foothill Symphonic Winds (Palo Alto, Calif.) (Roy Stehle, conductor) – 8 December 2019
  • University of Rhode Island (Kingston) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Gene Pollart, conductor) – 8 December 2019
  • Virginia Wind Symphony (Virginia Beach) (Dennis J. Ziesler, conductor) – 10 November 2019
  • Golden Gate Park Band (San Francisco, Calif.) (Robert Calonico, conductor) – 29 September 2019
  • Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) Wind Symphony (Eddie W. Airheart, conductor) – 16 April 2019
  • Harvard Wind Ensemble (Cambridge, Mass.) (Mark E. Olson, conductor) – 1 March 2019
  • Sacramento (Calif.) State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Matthew Morse, conductor) – 5 December 2018
  • Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City) Concert Band (Patricia Brumbaugh, conductor) - 26 October 2018
  • Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 20 October 2018
  • California State University, Northridge, Wind Ensemble (Lawrence Stoffel, conductor) – 11 October 2018
  • Eastman Wind Ensemble (Rochester, N.Y.) (Frederick Fennell, conductor) – 17 November 1961 *Premiere Eastman Wind Ensemble Concert*


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