Tahiti Trot
Dmitri Shostakovich (trans. Jerry Brubaker)
Subtitle: After Tea for Two by Vincent Youmans.
This work bears the designation Opus 16.
General Info
Year: 1927 / 2009
Duration: c. 3:40
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $87.00; (digital) - $87.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Synthesizer (optional)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Hi-Hat
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Shostakovich had demonstrated as early as 1928 his penchant for what might be termed light music. In a bet between friends, Dmitri was challenged by conductor Nikolai Malko to prepare in less than one hour’s time a completely new orchestration of Tea for Two, the popular song by Vincent Youmans. The work had previously been adapted in 1926 by Boris Forem as Tahiti Trot. It was a recording of this earlier rendition that inspired the wager. The stakes were for 100 rubles. The result was Shostakovich's Opus 16. Dmitri easily won the bet as he completed his original and witty orchestration within only forty-five minutes!
- Program Note from The Virginia Wind Symphony concert program, 21 December 2017
Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Waltz No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brown) (post 1956/2021)
All Wind Works
- Allegro from "Symphony No. 10" (tr. Fisher) (1954/2010)
- Ballet Suite #4 (arr. Pappajohn) (1953)
- Batterie from "The Nose" (arr. Schaefer) (1928/1978)
- Concertino (orch. Singleton) (1953/)
- Dance I. See: Jazz Suite No. 2
- Ein Volksfest (arr. Rembach) (1955/1995)
- Ein Volksfest. See: Folk Festival
- Excerpts from "Symphony No. 5" Finale (arr. Longfield) (1937/2007)
- Festive Overture (arr. Frost) (1954/2016)
- Festive Overture (tr. Hunsberger) (1954/1965)
- Festive Overture (tr. Martin) (1954/2016?)
- Festive Overture (tr. Patterson) (1954/)
- Festive Overture (tr. Takahashi) (1954/1998)
- The Fire of Eternal Glory (tr. Timothy Rhea) (1960/2011)
- Fire of Eternal Glory (arr. Curnow) (1960/2011)
- Folk Dances (tr. Reynolds) (1942/1979)
- Folk Dances (arr. Erickson) (1942/1979)
- Folk Dances (arr. Curnow) (1942/2000)
- Folk Festival (tr. Hunsberger) (1955/1971)
- Folk Festival. See also: Ein Volksfest
- Fortinbras March from "Hamlet" (tr. Suchoff) (1932/1967)
- The Gadfly (1955/)
- The Gadfly (tr. Patterson) (1955/)
- Galop (tr. Hunsberger) (1959/1971)
- Galop (from "The Limpid Stream") (tr. Miller) (1935)
- Hamlet Suite (tr. Suchoff) (1964/1975)
- Intermezzo (arr. Cahn) (1928/1986/1994)
- Jazz Suite No. 1 (1934)
- Jazz Suite No. 2 (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- March (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Lyric Waltz (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1995)
- Dance I (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Dance II (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Finale (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- March (arr. Curnow) (2014)
- March (arr. de Meij). See: Jazz Suite No. 2
- March of the Soviet Militia (ed. Iakubov) (1970/2006)
- October, Op 131 (arr. Mitchell) (1967)
- Overture on Russian and Kirg (arr. Janssen)
- Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Songs (tr. Duker) (1963/1989)
- Overture to "The Gadfly" (arr. Geert Flik) (1955/2006)
- Piano Concerto No 2 (tr. Pontini) (1957/2012)
- Piano Concerto No 2 in F Major (arr. Bamonte)
- Piano Trio No. 2 (arr. Graham)
- Priest and His Servant Balda, The (1934)
- Prelude, Op. 34, No. 14 (arr. Reynolds) (1988)
- Prelude 21 and Fugue 1 (arr. McCullough) (1952/)
- Prelude (Variations) from "Ballet Suite No. 4" (arr. Blankenship) (1953/)
- Romance (arr. Peel) (1955/1985)
- Spanish Dance from "The Gadfly" (arr. Curnow)
- Suite for Jazz Orchestra no. 1. See: Jazz Suite No. 1
- Symphony No. 1 (tr. Scarbrough) (1924-25)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt I (tr. Schaeffer)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt II (tr. Smith) (1937/1944)
- Symphony No. 5: Finale (tr. Righter) (1937/1947)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt IV (tr. Rogers) (1937/2003)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt IV (tr. Bocook) (1937/2005)
- Symphony No. 9 (arr. Mertens and Suykerbuyk) (1945/1986)
- Symphony No. 9 (tr. Schaefer) (1945/1976)
- Symphony No. 10, Mvt. II (tr. Fisher) (tr. Fisher) (1954/2010)
- Symphony No. 10, Mvmt II (tr. O'Brien) (1954)
- Symphony No. 11: Second Movement Excerpts (arr. Daehn) (1957/1989)
- Tahiti Trot (tr. Brubaker) (1927/2009)
- Three Symphonic Preludes (arr. Reed)
- Two Scarlatti Pieces (1928)
- Waltz No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brown) (post 1956/2021)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. Connery) (post 1956/1996)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. Curnow) (post 1956/2010)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. De Meij). See: Jazz Suite No. 2