Celebrate!

Clarence Barber

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General Info

Year: 2013
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ludwig Masters
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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
Timpani
Percussion

(percussion detail desired)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

In honor of Ken Mehalko's 50 years of music-making in Strongsville, OH.

- Program Note from score

The title states the purpose, intent, and style of this brief overture. Composed in celebration of Strongsville, Ohio, musician Ken Mehalko’s 50 years of music-making, this 112-measure, brisk overture opens with a riff in the horns followed by rhythmic underpinning in the low brass and percussion before transitioning to a full trumpet section solo in changing meters. This composition is full of melodic fragments that lend themselves to small rhythmic variations. In the final section, a solo trumpet presents a contrasting solo before full, vibrant scoring completes this ever-so-brief work.

- Program Note from The Instrumentalist

Media

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Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

An American Ballad (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2004/2013)
Battaglia (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1967/2021)
Bobsled Run (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2021)
Revenge of the Dust Bunnies (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2021)
Two Christmas Nights (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2008/2013)
Variation Overture (Flex instrumntation) (as arranger) (1962/2021)
Westridge Overture (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1983/1991/2021)
Yorkshire Ballad (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1985/2021)

All Wind Works

An American Ballad (2004)
An American Ballad (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2004/2013)
Aria: Without Words (2015)
Bath Time (2011)
Battaglia (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1967/2021)
Beware the Captive Yoop (2013)
Black River Bridge (1991)
Bobsled Run (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2021)
Brief Digressions from a Clifton Williams Theme (1996)
Burned Land, The (2001)
Celebrate! (2013)
Chorale and Folk Dance (2002)
Christmas Collage (2004)
In Footsteps of Legends (2012)
Island Rhythms (2015)
Kingdom of Shadows (2014)
Midnight Sun (2013)
On the Dread Coast (2015)
Revenge of the Dust Bunnies (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2021)
Two Christmas Nights (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2008/2013)
Valedictory (2017)
Variation Overture (Flex instrumntation) (as arranger) (1962/2021)
Westridge Overture (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1983/1991/2021)
Yorkshire Ballad (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1985/2021)

Resources

"New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 71.2 (2016): 35. Print
Perusal score