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Festival
General Info
Year: 1962 / 1990
Duration: c. 5:35
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Out of print.
For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon/Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto 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, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Tenor Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Festival was composed in 1961 for band and orchestra simultaneously. A tour de force in instrumentation, the objective of this showpiece was to generate a festive mood -- one of gaiety and excitement. This is a tightly knit composition, with both the fast and slow sections based on the same thematic material.
-Program Note from Program Notes for Band
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class AA
- Arkansas: IV
- Florida: V
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
- Mississippi: VI-A
- New York: Concert Band VI
- North Carolina: VIx
- South Carolina: VI
- Tennessee: V
- Virginia: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Chesapeake Bay Wind Ensemble (Hampton Roads, Va.) (Melvin Lauf, Jr., conductor) - 22 April 2023
- Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Symphonic Band (Daniel Tembras, conductor) – 8 October 2015
- CBDNA Small College Intercollegiate Band (Lowell Graham, conductor) – 26 March 2011 (CBDNA 2011 National Conference, Seattle, Wash.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Variation Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1962/2021)
All Wind Works
- Academic Procession (1961)
- Air Force Band of the West March (1965)
- Anitra's Tanz (as arranger) (1875/1965)
- Arioso (1958)
- Caccia and Chorale (1976)
- Castle Gap (1964)
- Concertino (1960)
- Dedicatory Overture (1964)
- Dramatic Essay (1958)
- Fanfare and Allegro (1956)
- Festival (1962)
- The Hermitage (1976)
- Hill Country Ballad (1953)
- Killian March (1968)
- Laredo (1964)
- March Lamar (1966)
- Pandéan Fable (1970)
- Pastorale (1957)
- The Patriots (1970)
- Postwar Prelude (1943/2012)
- The Ramparts (1967)
- The Sinfonians (1960)
- A Solemn Fugue (1958)
- Sonata Allegro (1949/2012)
- Songs of Heritage (1976/1999)
- Strategic Air Command (1964)
- Symphonic Dance No. 1, "Comanche Ritual" (tr. McBeth) (1965/2013)
- Symphonic Dance No. 2, "The Maskers" (1964/1968)
- Symphonic Dance No. 3, "Fiesta" (1964/1967)
- Symphonic Dance No. 4, "Square Dance"
- Symphonic Dance No. 5, "New Generation" (1965/2013)
- Symphonic Essays (1963/2013)
- Symphonic Suite (1956)
- Variation Overture (1962)
- Variation Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1962/2021)
Resources
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 646
- Williams, C. (1962). Festival: Concert Band [score]. Summy-Birchard: Evanston.