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Spring Divertimento
General Info
Year: 1992
Duration: c. 10:15
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Movements
1. Fanfare
2. Hymn
3. Scherzo
4. Serenade
5. Dance
6. Flourish
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
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 Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Acme Siren
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Spring Divertimento was written as a tribute to the great composers Vincent Persichetti and Leonard Bernstein. It is a six-movement composition with an overall lightness to be a pleasant diversion. The opening Fanfare is showy and dramatic and in contrast to the tranquil Hymn movement. Frivolity returns with a solo trumpet playing above a rhythmic background in the Scherzo movement.
The rhythm of the third movement shifts to a nostalgic waltz before returning to the light trumpet melody. A calm Serenade is introduced by the alto saxophone. The piano runs, like a babbling brook, through the Dance movement as clusters of chords reflect the bright colors of springtime. Flourish is an appropriate title for the last movement as bell tones from the brass grow in harmony and structure until the final proclamation of the full ensemble.
- Program Note from Foothill Symphonic Winds concert program, 11 June 2017
Media
State Ratings
- South Carolina: V
- Virginia: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Foothill Symphonic Winds (Palo Alto, Calif.) (David Bruce Adams, conductor) – 11 June 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adoramus Te, Christe (as arranger)
- and in this dream there were eight windows... (2003)
- Appalachian Folk Dream (2016)
- Argentum (1986)
- Blue Sky Day (2006)
- Bridge Square March (2005)
- Bright Side (2015/2018)
- Carolina Folk Dream
- Climb the Castle Walls! (2011)
- Dauntless (2015)
- Daydream (1989)
- Diamond Celebration (2009)
- Dig Down Deep (2013)
- Endurance (1991)
- Etched in Stone (2018)
- Everyday Hero (2011)
- Fanfare and Grand March (1980)
- Fantasia in G (1982)
- Festivals
- Fields of Grain as Seen From a Train (2008)
- Flourish (2000)
- GF Redux: "It's Yours", from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Heroic Rhapsody (2009)
- Heroic Valor (2009)
- Hey! (2001/2005)
- Honoris Causa (2009)
- Hymn and Celebration (1994)
- Imagine, If You Will... (2013)
- Imagining Peace (2018)
- Immigrant Dreams (1992)
- Imprints
- Inaugural Dances (2006)
- Into the Air! (1998)
- Look In/Look Out (2018)
- A Mighty March (2003)
- Mountain Prayers (2006)
- Mourning Dances (2001)
- Mr. Kallman (2019)
- Noble Element (2007)
- Passages (1984)
- Pride, Promise and Progress (2009)
- A Quiet Place To Think (1999)
- Retreat, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- The Soaring Hawk (1991)
- Sol Solator (2009)
- Spirits Ablaze (2013)
- Spring Divertimento (1992)
- Suite for Band (2014)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Uncle Lumpy's Garage (2005)
- Urgent Voices (2020)
- The View from the Mountaintop (1996)
- When I Close My Eyes, I See Dancers (1997)
Resources
- Mahr, T. (1997). Spring Divertimento [score]. Neil A. Kjos Music: San Diego, Calif.