Springtime Celebration, A

Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed

General Info

Year: 1991
Duration: c. 7:45
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $160.00   |   Score Only (print) - $20.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon (optional)
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
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bells
• Crash Cymbals
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tambourine
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Commissioned by Mr. Kikuo Atarashi and the Tenri High School Band of Nara, Japan, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the founding of this outstanding musical performing group in 1936, A Springtime Celebration (Haru no Yorokobi) represents Alfred Reed in one of his warmest and most lyrical moods, celebrating the joy of youth in that loveliest of all seasons of the year: Spring. Set in the traditional three-part overture form, the music opens with a burst of energy in the full band that soon gives way to a lilting theme in the clarinets and woodwinds, which, after being developed in mostly softer colors, rises to a climax and then seemingly dissolves into its counterpart: a long-breathed caressing phrase that is also developed mostly in woodwind colors, rises to its own climax, and then, following a transitional phrase, falls away to prepare for the second main theme. This long, flowing romantic line, first heard in the unison horns and then taken up by more and more instruments as it develops, reaches a glowing climax, and then it too fades away on a long held chord in the flutes , bringing this second section to a close. The third section begins with a return to the first main theme, gradually working up to a full restatement of the main theme, in both its parts, developed by the full winds and brasses, culminating in a final surge of brilliant sound... the very essence of youth in the full flowering of its high spirits and aspirations.

The score of A Springtime Celebration was completed in November, 1990 and the first performance of the work took place on March 20th, 1991, with the Tenri High School Band under the direction of the composer in a concert in Nara, Japan. The work is dedicated to the Tenri High School Band and its director, Mr. Kikuo Atarashi, "with great warmth and affection."

- Program Note from score

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
• Audio CD: Senzoku Gakuen Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Alfred Reed, conductor) – 1996

State Ratings

• Alabama: Class A
• Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
• Kansas: V
• Maryland: IV
• Oklahoma: V-A
• Tennessee: V
• Virginia: V

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• South Bay Wind Ensemble (El Segundo, Calif.) (Steven Allen Fox, conductor) - 28 January 2023
• Golden Gate Park Band (San Francisco, Calif.) (Robert Calonico, conductor) - 1 July 2018

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
• A Festival Prelude (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Haga) (1962/2019)
• Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)

All Wind Works

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• Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973)
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  • Armenian Dances, Part Two (1978)
• Around the World in 80 Days: Selections (as arranger; ed. Rogers) (1957/2017)
• Autumn Leaves (as arranger; ed. Rogers) (1947/2017)
• Ballade (1956/1999)
• Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Suite (as arranger) (1965)
• Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as editor; arr. McAlister) (1910/2005)
• The Big East March (1997)
• Canto e Camdombe
• Carmen (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1875/2000)
• A Celebration Fanfare (1989)
• A Ceremonial Fanfare (1971)
• Ceremony of Flourishes (1964)
• Chanson Triste (as arranger) (1878/1989)
• Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with McAlister; tr. Rogan) (1892/2001)
• Children's Suite (2000)
• A Christmas Suite (1974)
• Chorale Prelude in E minor (1953/1966)
• A Christmas Celebration (1987)
• A Christmas Intrada (1980)
• Clear Track Polka (as arranger) (1869/2000)
• Come, Sweet Death (as arranger) (1736/1976)
• Come, Sweet Death (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
• Concertino (as arranger; ed. McCathren) (1811/1962)
• Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993)
• Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (1995/1997)
  • Sonata
  • Slow Blues, Jazz Waltz
  • Song, Samba
• Curtain Up! (1991)
• Dance of the Hours (as editor; tr. Kennedy) (1876/)
• Danza Caribe (1986)
• Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (as arranger) (1653/1724/1990)
• Divertimento for Flute and Band (1998)
• Double Wind Quintet (1975)
• East and West (2003)
• El Camino Real (1985)
• El Camino Real (arr. Longfield) (1985/2013)
• The Enchanted Island (1980)
• The Entertainer (as arranger) (1902/1974)
• Evolutions (1993)
• Exhortation and Praise (2003)
• Fanfare and Processional (2005)
• The Fantasticks (as arranger) (1966)
• Fantasy on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (as arranger) (1973)
• A Festival Prelude (1962)
• A Festival Prelude (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Haga) (1962/2019)
• A Festive Overture (1963)
• Fifth Suite for Band (1995)
• Fifth Symphony (1995)
• Finlandia (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1900/2004)
• First Suite for Band (1975)
• Five Cameos (2002)
• Five Dances for Five Clarinets and Band
• Forget Me Not, O Dearest Lord (as arranger) (c. 1736/1985)
• Fourth Suite for Band (1994)
• Fourth Symphony (1992)
• French Suite
• Funiculi Funicula (as arranger) (1880/1994)
• The Garden of Proserpine
• Giligia (2000)
• Golden Eagle (1989/1995)
• Golden Jubilee (1987)
• The Golden Year (1997)
• Greensleeves (1993/2011)
• Gypsy Dance (as arranger) (1872/1997)
• Havana Moon
• Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962)
• Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger) (1963/1965)
• The Hounds of Spring (1981)
• Huldigungsmarsch (as editor) (1864/2002)
• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1853/2002)
• Hymn Variants (1992)
• I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber; ed. Rogers) (1954/1963)
• Imperatrix (1972)
• In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger) (1970)
• In Memoriam (1972)
• Intrada Drammatica (1968/1992)
• Jazz Waltz. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (1723/1981)
• Jidai (2001)
• Joyeux Noël (Brass Ensemble) (1998)
• Joyeux Noël (Wind Ensemble) (1998/2001/2002)
• A Jubilant Overture (1970)
• A Jubilant Overture (arr. Conaway) (1970/2011)
• The King of Love My Shepherd Is (1995)
• L’Arlésienne Suite No 2 (as editor, with McAlister) (1872/2002)
• Laid-Back Rag
• Light Cavalry Overture (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1866/2003)
• A Little Concert Suite (1984)
• Lumberjack Overture
• Macarena (as arranger) (1992)
• Mancini! (as arranger) (1965)
• March Grandioso (as arranger) (1901/1969)
• Mary Poppins (as arranger) (1964/2006)
• Might and Majesty
• Millennium III (1999)
• Mr. Music (1990)
• The Music-Makers (1968)
• Music for Hamlet (1973/2018)
• Music in the Air! (2000)
• The Music Man: Highlights (as arranger) (1957/1959)
• My Fair Lady (as arranger) (1956/?)
• My Heart Is Filled With Longing (as arranger) (c. 1710/1986)
• Nimrod (as arranger) (1899/1965)
• Nocturne (as arranger) (1886/1953/1975)
• A Nordic Trilogy (with Erickson and Davis) (1967)
• A Northern Legend (1972)
• O Little Town (as arranger)
• O Most Wonderful (as arranger)
• Ode for Trumpet (1956)
• Old and New (2002)
• Othello (1977)
• Our Father Who Art in Heaven (as arranger) (1710/1988)
• Passacaglia (1967)
• Pavane for a Dead Princess (as orchestrator; ed. McAlister) (1899/1988)
• Piccolo Concerto in C major (as arranger) (1728-29/1962/1969)
• Pilgrim's Chorus (as arranger) (1845/1991)
• The Pledge of Allegiance (1970)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 2 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 3 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 4 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
• Praise Jerusalem! (1986)
• Prelude IV (as arranger) (1722/1983)
• Prelude and Capriccio (1978)
• Prelude, Op. 9, No. 1 (as arranger) (1894/1985)
• Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (as arranger, with McAlister) (1850/2006)
• Presentation of the Silver Rose (as arranger) (1910/1988)
• Pro Texana (1984)
• Punchinello (1974)
• Radetzky March (as arranger) (1848/1993)
• Rahoon (1965)
• The Ramparts of Courage (1995)
• Rosalind in the Forest of Arden (2005)
• Rushmore (1981)
• Russian Christmas Music (1944)
• Russian Christmas Music (arr. Curnow) (1944/1990)
• A Sacred Suite
• Salutations! (1995)
• Samba. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
• Seascape: A Dramatic Intermezzo (1962)
• Second Century (1986)
• Second Suite for Band (1980)
• Second Symphony (1979)
• Selections from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as editor; arr. Kostal) (1963/1964)
• Serenade (1966)
• Seventh Suite for Band (2002)
• The Severn Suite (as arranger) (1973)
• Siciliana Notturno (1977)
• Silver Shadow (1998/1999)
• Sine Nomine (as arranger) (1906/1976)
• Sixth Suite for Band
• Slavonic Folk Suite (1953/1987)
• Slow Blues. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
• Sonata. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
• Song. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
• Song of the High Cascades
• Song of Threnos (1964)
• A Springtime Celebration (1991)
• The Strenuous Life (as arranger) (1902/1974)
• Sumus Futuro (1999)
• A Symphonic Prelude (1963)
• Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1952/1967)
• Symphony No. 1. See: Symphony for Brass and Percussion
• Symphony No. 2. See: Second Symphony
• Symphony No. 3 (1988)
  • Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner (1882/1988)
• Symphony No. 4. See: Fourth Symphony
• Symphony No. 5. See: Fifth Symphony
• Tannhäuser Grand March (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1847/2005)
• Tarantella (1996)
• Testament of an American (1974)
• Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" (as arranger) (1963)
• Third Suite for Band (1982)
• Third Symphony. See: Symphony No. 3
• Three Chorales (as arranger; ed. McAlister) (?/2013)
• Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra (1984)
• Three Symphonic Preludes (as arranger)
• Thunder and Lightning (1999)
• The Tsar's Farewell (as arranger) (2001)
• Twelfth Night (2003)
• Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)
• Two Bagatelles (1983/1995)
• Two Bagatelles for Concert Band (1983/1997)
• Two Bagatelles for Four Trombones (1983)
• Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner. See: Symphony No. 3
• Victory! (2005)
• Vilia (as arranger) (1905/1990)
• Vilabella March (as editor) (1970)
• Viva Musica! (1984)
• Wapawekka (1963)
• With Trumpets And Drums (1992)

Resources

• Perusal score
• Reed, A. (1991). A Springtime Celebration = Haru no Yorokobi [score]. C.L. Barnhouse: Oskaloosa, Iowa.