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Adagio - Allegro Molto from "Symphony No 9"
Antonín Dvořák (arr. William V Johnson)
Subtitle: For Clarinet Choir
General Info
Year: 1893 / 2015
Duration: c. 9:40
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: William V. Johnson
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
While guest conducting in Northern California in the spring of 2015, I was asked by members of Clarinet Fusion, a high level nine-member San Francisco Bay Area clarinet choir, to arrange a work for them to be performed the following spring in Davies Symphony Hall for San Francisco Symphony’s Community of Music Makers (an outreach program for community chamber ensembles.) They had chosen the first movement of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95, Adagio-Allegro Molto, for their 2016 performance.
Reducing a major work for large symphony orchestra to nine players was a huge challenge, but lots of fun. On April 3, 2016, the arrangement was premiered at Davies Symphony Hall by Clarinet Fusion to a small audience of family and friends as a part of San Francisco Symphony Community of Music Makers Chamber Music Workshop. As one can imagine, it is a very challenging arrangement, but playable. The instrumentation consists of 1 E♭ clarinet, 4 B♭ clarinets, 1 alto clarinet, 2 bass clarinets, and 1 contra alto clarinet. The players of Clarinet Fusion were very helpful in making changes as they began rehearsing the piece. Therefore, this arrangement is as much theirs as it is mine.
Composed in 1893, Symphony No. 9 in E minor is a work written by the Czech composer when he lived in the United States from 1892 to 1895. Dvořák was the head of the National Conservatory of Music, which no longer exists. The composer writes, “I have simply written original themes embodying the peculiarities of Native American and African American music, and, using these themes as subjects, have developed them with all the resources of modern rhythms, counterpoint, and harmonies.”
- Program Note by arranger
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Clarinet Fusion (San Francisco) – 3 April 2016 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- New World Breakdown (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kiefer) (1893/2013/2020)
All Wind Works
- Adagio - Allegro Molto from "Symphony No 9" (arr. Johnson) (2015)
- Allegro con brio from "Symphony No. 8" (arr. Hartman) (1889/2013)
- Carnival Overture (arr. Clarke) (1891/1922?)
- Carnival Overture (arr. Mayes) (1891/2019)
- Carnival Overture (tr. Patterson) (1891/2023)
- Carnival Overture (arr. Schyns) (1891/2012)
- Carnival Overture (tr. Steiger) (1891/1982)
- Carnival Overture (tr. Walker; ed. Yeago) (1891/2000)
- Czech Suite (arr. Sheen) (1879/1988)
- Festival March (arr. Bourgeois) (1879/2012)
- Festmusik (arr. Woodley) (1901/2007)
- Finale from "New World Symphony" (tr. Hindsley) (1893)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 9" (tr. Buckley) (1893/2018)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 9" (tr. Leidzén) (1893/1936)
- Finale Excerpts, "Symphony No 9" (arr. Daehn) (1893/2010)
- Finale Symphony No. VIII (scored Schaefer) (1889/1980)
- Four Slavonic Dances (arr. Spink) (1886)
- Goin' Home (arr. Villanueva) (1893/1996)
- The Golden Spinning Wheel (tr. Johnson) (1896/2018)
- Humoresque (arr. Glover) (1894/2017)
- Largo (arr. Safranek) (1893/1912)
- Largo and Finale for Band (from the New World Symphony) (arr. Blahnik) (1893)
- Largo and Finale for Brass Choir (from the New World Symphony) (1893)
- Largo and Scherzo from "Symphony No 9 in E minor, Opus 95" (tr. Kappey) (1893/1903)
- Largo from "New World Symphony" (arr. Williams) (1893/2007)
- Legends, Op. 59, Nos. 1 - 5 (arr. Thompson) (1881/2019)
- New World Breakdown (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kiefer) (1893/2013/2020)
- Psalm of Praise (arr. Gardner) (1874/1966)
- Selections from "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46 (tr. Curnow) (1878/)
- Serenade, opus 22 (arr. Moehlmann) (1967)
- Serenade in D minor (1878)
- Slavonic Dance No. 5 (tr. Curnow)
- Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 46 (arr. Linklater) (1878/)
- Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 46 (arr. Longfield) (1878/2001)
- Slavonic Dance No. 3, Op 46 (arr. Safranek) (1878/1912)
- Slavonic Dance, Op 46 No 7 for Woodwind Choir (1878/1999)
- Slavonic Dance No 7, Op 46 (arr. Pyter) (1878/2020)
- Slavonic Dance No 8, Op 46 (tr. Balent) (1878/2010)
- Slavonic Dance No. 8, Op. 46 (arr. Longfield) (1878/1991)
- Slavonic Dance No. 8, Op. 46 (arr. Harnsberger) (1878/2004)
- Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/2001)
- Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 72 (arr. Tobani) (1886/1929)
- Slavonic Dance No 3, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/2003)
- Slavonic Dance No 4, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/1996)
- Slavonic Dance No 4 (arr. Sebesky) (1970)
- Slavonic Dance No 6, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/2002)
- Slavonic Dance No 7, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/1996)
- Slavonic Dances, The (tr. Curnow) (1878/1984)
- Slavonic Dances (arr. Johnson) (1878/1960)
- Slavonic March (arr. Longfield) (1878/2017)
- Slawischer Tanz Nr. 4 (arr. Goldhammer) (1878/1995)
- Symphony No. 8: Finale (arr. Schaefer). See: Finale Symphony No. VIII
- Symphony No. 9: Finale (arr. Harnsberger) (1893/1999)
- Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement (arr. Bělohoubek) (1893/)
- Song to the Moon (orch. Silbert) (1901/)
- Themes from "New World Symphony" (arr. Sweeney) (1893)
- Three Slavonic Dances (arr. Hanna)
- Two Biblical Songs for Symphonic Wind Band (arr. Grotenhuis) (1894/2003)