Shivaree

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Subtitle: A Fanfare; For Double Brass Ensemble and Percussion

General Info

Year: 1970
Duration: c. 2:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Jalni Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $19.42

Instrumentation

Full Score

Ensemble One:

• B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
• Horn in F I-II-III-IV
• Trombone I-II
• Percussion I-II, including:
  • Bongos
  • Drums (4)
  • Tambourine

Ensemble Two:

• Trumpet I
• Horn in F I-II
• Trombone I
• Percussion I-I, including:
  • Bass Drum
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Snare Drum

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

A shivaree is a noisy mock serenade performed by a group of people to celebrate a marriage or mock an unpopular person.

A fanfare for double brass ensemble and percussion, commissioned by and dedicated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in honor of its Centenary in 1969. Centennial special events at the Museum centered around five exhibitions celebrating the breadth of the Museum’s collecting over the previous one hundred years, commissioning a contemporary American composer to create a fanfare for each exhibition.

Bernstein's Shivaree was commissioned for the exhibit "Before Cortes: Sculpture Of Middle America". The title is a corruption of the French word charivari, or a discordant serenade with pots, pans and other noise makers and intended in jest. The two main musical ideas of the work appeared two years later as God Said (the "Gospel-Sermon") and the Prefatory Prayers (from the "First Introit") of MASS.

- Program Note from Leonard Bernstein at 100

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: Brass Ensemble of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Barry Wordsworth, conductor) - 2018

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Brass Ensemble of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Barry Wordsworth, conductor)

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Boston (Mass.) Conservatory Wind Ensemble (Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor) – 6 October 2018

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Cool (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Murtha) (1957/2018)
• West Side Story (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1957/2015)

All Wind Works

• Almighty Father (arr. Hunsberger) (1971/1974)
• America (arr. Vinson) (1963/2018)
• America from "West Side Story" (arr. Brown)
• A Bernstein Tribute (adapt. Grundman) (1991)
• Candide Suite (arr. Grundman) (1956/1993)
• Cool (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Murtha) (1957/2018)
• Dance Suite (1990)
• Danzón (arr. Bocook) (1944/1990)
• Danzón (arr. Krance) (1944)
• Divertimento (arr. Grundman) (1980/1984)
  • BSO Forever, The
• Fanfare for the 25th Anniversary of the High School of the Arts (orch. Ramin)
• Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (orch. Ramin) (1961/1995)
• Fanfare from "Dance Suite"
• Four Dances from "West Side Story" (tr. Polster) (1957/1980)
• Gee, Officer Krupke (arr. Murtha) (1957/2015)
• Glitter and Be Gay (arr. Frenkel) (1956/)
• Glitter and be Gay from "Candide" (tr. Davis)
• Highlights from "West Side Story" (arr. Ingram) (1963)
• I Hate Music! (arr. Nowlin) (1943/)
• Make Our Garden Grow (arr. Kreines) (1956/2017)
• Make Our Garden Grow (arr. John Gibson) (1956/)
• Mambo from "West Side Story" (arr. Sweeney) (1957/2013?)
• Maria (arr. Murtha) (1957/2003)
• Maria from "West Side Story" (arr. McCoy) (1957)
• Meditation No. 2 (arr. Hunsberger) (1971/1973)
• A Musical Toast (tr. Grundman) (1982)
• Overture to "Candide" (trans. Beeler)
• Overture to "Candide" (tr. Grundman) (1955/1986)
• Overture to "Candide" (arr. Howell) (1955/2020)
• Overture to "Candide" (tr. Hunsberger) (1955/)
• Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (1974/1991)
• Presto Barbaro from "On the Waterfront" (arr. Erickson)
• Prologue from "West Side Story" (arr. Gilmore) (1962)
• Selections from "Wonderful Town" (arr. Saurer) (1953)
• Shivaree (1970)
• A Simple Song (arr. Sweeney) (1971/2010)
• Slava! (tr. Grundman) (1977)
• Slava! (arr. Linden) (1977/2011)
• Slava! (tr. Longfield) (1977/)
• Somewhere (arr. Brown) (1957/2012)
• Somewhere from "West Side Story" (arr. Bocook)
• Suite from "MASS" (arr. Sweeney) (1971/2009 )
• Suite from "On the Town" (arr. Higgins) (1944)
• Suite from "West Side Story" (arr. Davis)
• Symphonic Dance Music from "West Side Story" (arr. Polster) (1980)
• Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" (arr. Leon) (1967/2007)
• Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" (tr. Lavender) (1967/2008)
• Symphonic Suite from "On the Waterfront" (arr. Bocook) (1954/2011)
• Symphony No. 1 (tr. Bencriscutto) (1942/1952)
  • Profanation from "Symphony No. 1"
  • Lamentation from "Symphony No. 1"
• Symphony No. 1 (tr. Lebrias) (1942/2023)
• Three Dance Episodes from "On The Town" (arr. Lavender) (1944/2016)
• Three Dance Episodes from "On The Town" (tr. Stith) (1944/1972)
• West Side Story: Highlights (tr. Ingram)
• West Side Story: Medley (arr. Bocook) (1957/1991)
• West Side Story: Selection (arr. Duthoit) (1957/1959)
• West Side Story (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1957/2015)
• West Side Story (arr. Norris)
• A White House Cantata (tr. Nowlin) (1997/)
• Wrong Note Rag (arr. Ricketts) (1953/2005)

Resources

• Bernstein, L. (1970). Shivaree: a Fanfare ; For Double Brass Ensemble and Percussion [score]. Jalni Publ.: [New York].