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Subtitle: A Theater Overture for Winds
Contents
General Info
Year: 1991
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute III
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contra-Bassoon
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-IV
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass/Electric Bass
Synthesizer
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Program Notes
From the renowned composer Alfred Reed comes this unique musical panorama. An original work, it explores the theater overture style as one of the important musical styles to emerge in the 20th century. Written for the Wheaton, Illinois, Municipal Band's 60th anniversary, this single-movement work includes six sections: Opening Fanfare, Bright Two-Step, Romantic Ballad, Soft Shoe Novelty, Latin Production Number, and Jazz/Rock Finale.
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Encore Concert Band (Mokena, Ill.) (William Schuetter, conductor) – 21 October 2018
- Banda de Lalín (Galicia, Spain) (Isabel Maria Rubio Molina, conductor) – 2017
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973)
- Arioso (as arranger)
- Armenian Dances, Part One (1972)
- Armenian Dances, Part Two (1978)
- Autumn Leaves (as arranger) (1947/2017)
- Ballade (1956/1999)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Suite (as arranger) (1965)
- Celebration Fanfare, A (1989)
- Ceremony of Flourishes (1964)
- Chanson Triste (1989)
- Chorale Prelude in E minor (1953/1966)
- Christmas Celebration, A (1987)
- Christmas Intrada, A (1980)
- Clear Track Polka (2000)
- Come, Sweet Death (as arranger) (1736/1976)
- Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993)
- Curtain Up! (1991)
- Danza Caribe
- Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (arr Reed)
- Divertimento for Flute and Concert Band (1998)
- Double Wind Quintet (1975)
- El Camino Real (1985)
- El Camino Real (arr. Longfield)
- Enchanted Island, The (1980)
- The Fantasticks (as arranger) (1966)
- Fantasy on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (as arranger) (1973)
- A Festival Prelude (1962)
- A Festive Overture (1963)
- Fifth Suite for Band (1995)
- Finlandia (as editor)
- First Suite for Band (1975)
- Fourth Suite for Band (1994)
- Funiculi Funicula (as arranger)
- Giligia (A Song of Remembrance)
- Golden Year, The
- Greensleeves (1993/2011)
- Gypsy Dance (as arranger) (1872/1997)
- Huldigungsmarsch (as editor) (1864/2002)
- Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962)
- Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger)
- The Hounds of Spring (1981)
- Hymn Variants
- I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber; Ed Rogers) (1954/1963)
- Imperatrix
- In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger)
- Intrada Drammatica (1968/1992)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (1723/1981)
- Jidai (2001)
- A Jubilant Overture (1970)
- King of Love My Shepherd Is, The (1995)
- Little Concert Suite, A (1984)
- Mancini! (as arranger)
- March Grandioso (as arranger) (1901/1969)
- Mary Poppins (as arranger) (1964/2006)
- Millennium III
- Mr. Music
- The Music-Makers (1968)
- Music Man, The: Highlights (as arranger)
- My Heart is Filled With Longing (as arranger) (c. 1710/1986)
- Nimrod (as arranger) (1899/1965)
- Northern Legend, A
- Ode for Trumpet (1956)
- Othello (1977)
- Our Father Who Art in Heaven (as arranger)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (as arranger) (1845/1991)
- Praise Jerusalem! (1986)
- Prelude IV (as arranger) (1983)
- Prelude and Capriccio (1978)
- Presentation of the Silver Rose (as arranger)
- Punchinello (1974)
- Radetzky March (as arranger) (1993)
- Rahoon (1965)
- Ramparts of Courage, The
- Rosalind in the Forest of Arden (2005)
- Rushmore (1981)
- Russian Christmas Music (1944)
- Russian Christmas Music (arr. Curnow) (1944/1990)
- Seascape: A Dramatic Intermezzo for Solo Baritone (Trombone) and Band
- Second Century
- Second Suite for Band (1980)
- Serenade (1966)
- The Severn Suite (1973)
- Siciliana Notturno (1977)
- Silver Shadow (Concert March)
- Sine Nomine (as arranger) (1906/1976)
- Sixth Suite for Band
- Slavonic Folk Suite
- Springtime Celebration, A
- Symphonic Prelude (1963)
- Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1967)
- Symphony No. 3 (1988)
- Symphony No. 4
- Sumus Futuro
- Tarantella (1996)
- Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" (as arranger) (1963)
- Third Suite For Band
- Three Chorales (as arranger)
- Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra (1984)
- Thunder and Lightning
- The Tsar's Farewell (as arranger) (2001)
- Twelfth Night (2003)
- Two Bagatelles for Brass Ensemble and Percussion (1995)
- Two Bagatelles for Concert Band
- Two Bagatelles for Four Trombones
- Vilia
- Viva Musica! (1984)
- With Trumpets And Drums
Resources
- Reed, A. (1990). Curtain Up!: A Theater Overture for Winds [score]. Jenson Publications: [United States].
