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Tom Sawyer Suite
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Subtitle: Five Scenes from Mark Twain
This work bears the designation Opus 27.
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Mitropa Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €185.00 | Score Only (print) - €42.00
Movements
1. Tom Sawyer - he was not the model boy of the village - 1:59
2. Huckleberry Finn - dreaded by all the mothers of the town - 2:03
3. Becky Thatcher - a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair - 2:22
4. Injun Joe
5. Happy Ending - “My goodness, Huck, looky here!” It was the treasure. - 5:21
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
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(percussion detail desired)
Banjo
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
During his childhood The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the favourite book of the composer Franco Cesarini. With his memories of the magic of joy, fear and freedom, Cesarini seeks to bring the figures of the book to life musically in his Tom Sawyer Suite. Each of the first four movements describes a figure from the story. Tom Sawyer is depicted in the first movement, where the characteristic “cake walk” rhythm is used. The second movement depicts Huckleberry Finn. The third movement is slower, more expressively melancholic and is dedicated to Becky Thatcher. Then there is Injun Joe, who tries to catch Tom in the fourth movement, with the fifth movement leading to a happy end.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Swiss National Section of the W.A.S.B.E.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Georgia: VI
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP II
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Florida International University (Miami) Symphonic Band (Barry Bernhardt, conductor) – 18 April 2019
- Bob Jones University (Greenville, S.C.) Symphonic Wind Band (Dan Turner, conductor) – 14 April 2018
- Banda Sinfónica de la Facultad de Música de la UNAM (Mexico City, Mex.) (Luis Manuel Sánchez Rivas, conductor) – 5 April 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Abysses
- Aida: Grand Finale
- Alpina Fanfare (1997)
- Antiche Danza Ed Arie Per Liuto
- Arizona (2014)
- Blue Horizons (2002)
- Bulgarian Dances (2011)
- Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (2013)
- Ceresio
- Convergents
- Cossack Folk Dances
- Ernani
- Greek Folk Song Suite (2002)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1995)
- Huckleberry Finn Suite (2005)
- Huntingtower (as arranger) (1932/1987)
- I Vespri Siciliani
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (as arranger) (1816/2011)
- Il Trovatore : Coro dei Gitani
- A Joyful Fanfare (2007)
- Jubilee Fanfare
- La Forza del Destino (as transcriber) (1862/1995)
- Le Cortège du Roi Renaud (1999/2021)
- MGB March
- Mountain Majesty
- Norma
- Poema Alpestre (1999)
- Piccola Suite Italiana (2005)
- Puss in Boots (2013)
- Renaissance Suite (2008)
- Solemnitas
- Symphonic Fanfare (2009)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Symphony No. 2 (2018)
- Symphony No. 3 (2021)
- Tom Sawyer Suite (2002)
- Triumphal March
- Un Ballo en Maschera
- Variations on a French Folk Song (2000)
Resources
- Cesarini, F. (2002). Tom Sawyer Suite : Five Scenes from Mark Twain Op. 27 [score]. Mitropa Musik: Hagendorn, Swit.
- Perusal score