Tribute to Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (arr. Warren Barker)
General Info
Year: 1979
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts - $80.00 | Score Only - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
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
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Closed Cymbal
- Crash Cymbals
- Orchestra Bells
- Ratchet
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Warren Barker's spectacular Tribute to Irving Berlin highlights fourteen of his hit tunes in a brightly paced montage as follows: There No Business Like Show Business, Say It With Music, Steppin' Out with My Baby, Alexander's Ragtime Band, A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones, Blue Skies, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly, You're Just in Love, Easter Parade, Always, When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam, White Christmas, and God Bless America.
- Program Note from Program Notes for Band
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- City of Fairfax (Va.) Band (Robert Pouliot, conductor) – 18 May 2023 (ACB 2023 Annual Convention (Orlando, Fla.))
- Atascadero (Calif.) Community Band (Randy Schwalbe, conductor) – 30 October 2016
- San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) Band (Leonard Lutz, conductor) – 17 April 2016
- Peninsula Symphonic Band (Palo Alto, Calif.) (Jason McChristian, conductor) - 17 August 2014
- Southeast Alabama (Troy, Ala.) Community Band (John M. Long) - 2 May 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- God Bless America (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1939/2011)
- White Christmas (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1940/2006)
All Wind Works
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (arr. Molenaar) (1911/1960)
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (arr. Nowak) (1911/2013)
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (arr. Yoder) (1911/1940)
- Count Your Blessings (arr. Nowlin) (1954)
- Easter Parade (arr. Bennett) (1933)
- Easter Parade (arr. Auken) (1973)
- God Bless America (arr. Cofield) (1939/1972)
- God Bless America (arr. Edmondson) (1939/1979)
- God Bless America (arr. U.S. Army Band) (1939)
- God Bless America (arr. Jennings) (1939)
- God Bless America (arr. Laurent) (1939)
- God Bless America (arr. Leidzen) (1939)
- God Bless America (arr. Moss and Christopher) (1939/1995)
- God Bless America (arr. Ringwald) (1939/1969)
- God Bless America (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1939/2011)
- Happy Holiday/White Christmas (arr. Ricketts) (2009)
- Irving Berlin: A Symphonic Portrait (arr. Ades) (1975)
- An Irving Berlin Christmas (arr. Barker) (2007)
- Irving Berlin: From Rags to Ritz (arr. Murtha and Snyder) (2011)
- Irving Berlin Showstoppers (arr. Higgins) (1994)
- Irving Berlin: The Early Years (arr. Barker) (1997)
- Irvining Berlin Waltz Medley (arr. Leidzen) (1940)
- Irving Berlin's Christmas (arr. Brown and Brymer) (2010)
- Irving Berlin's Songs for America (arr. Swearingen) (1986)
- Marie (arr. Ballenger III)
- No Biz Like Show Biz (arr. Hearshen)
- Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (arr. Schulz) (1918)
- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (arr. Briegel) (1918)
- Say It with Music (arr. Yoder) (1921/1940)
- There's No Business Like Show Business (arr. Duthoit) (1946/1955)
- This is the Army, Mr. Jones (arr. Briegel) (1942)
- Tribute to Irving Berlin (arr. Barker) (1979)
- White Christmas (arr. Auken) (1940/1973)
- White Christmas (arr. Bennett) (1940/1948)
- White Christmas (arr. Edmondson) (1940/1979)
- White Christmas (arr. Huff and Moss) (1940/1995)
- White Christmas (arr. Leidzen) (1940/1942)
- White Christmas (arr. Moss) (1940/1998)
- White Christmas (arr. Skelly) (1940/?)
- White Christmas (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1940/2006)
Resources
- Berlin, I.; Barker, W. (1979). A Tribute to Irving Berlin [score]. Irving Berlin Music Corp.: New York.
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 60.