Celebrations (Perschetti)
Subtitle: Cantata No. 3 for Chorus and Wind Ensemble
This work bears the designation Opus 103.
General Info
Year: 1966
Duration: c. 23:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Cost: Score and Parts - $75.00 | Score Only - $25.00
Movements
1. Stranger
2. I Celebrate Myself
3. You Who Celebrate Bygones
4. There is That in Me
5. Sing Me the Universal
6. Flaunt Out O Sea
7. I Sing the Body Electric
8. A Clear Midnight
9. Voyage
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Trumpet/Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tenor Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
There is a great sense of warmth and joy in the score, and this effective setting of Walt Whitman's text allows the words to project with perfect naturalness.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Kansas: VI
- Louisiana: V
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Cincinnati (Ohio) College-Conservatory of Music Wind Ensemble (Thomas Gamboa, conductor) - 19 April 2023
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band (Courtney Snyder, conductor) – 15 April 2019
- Denison University (Granville, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Christopher David Westover, conductor) – 27 April 2018
- Temple University (Philadelphia, Penn.) Wind Symphony (Emily Threinen, conductor) – 9 October 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Bagatelles for Band (1961)
- Celebrations (1966)
- Chorale Prelude: O God Unseen (1984)
- Chorale Prelude: So Pure the Star (1963)
- Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face (1963/1968)
- Divertimento for Band (1953)
- A Lincoln Address (1959/1974)
- Masquerade for Band (1965)
- O Cool Is the Valley (1971)
- O God Unseen. See: Chorale Prelude: O God Unseen
- Pageant (1953)
- Pageant (ed. Tokke) (1953/c. 2019)
- Parable IX (1974)
- Pastoral (1943/1951)
- Psalm for Band (1953)
- Serenade for Band (1960)
- Serenade No 1 (1929/1963)
- Serenade No. 11. See: Serenade for Band
- So Pure the Star
- Symphony for Band (1956)
Resources
- Persichetti, V. Whitman, W. (1967). Celebrations: Cantata No. 3: Chorus and Wind Ensemble [score]. Elkan-Vogel: Philadelphia.