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Guys and Dolls Overture
Frank Loesser (arr. Philip J. Lang)
General Info
Year: 1950 / 1951
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Frank Music
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Instrumentation
Condensed Score
D-flat Piccolo
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet
E-flat Horn or Alto
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion (3 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Cowbell
- Crash Cymbals
- Ratchet
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on two short stories by Damon Runyon. These stories, written in the 1920s and 1930s, concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld.
The premiere on Broadway was in 1950. It ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, because of writer Abe Burrows' troubles with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection, and no Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year.
- Program Note adapted from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- El Camino College (Torrance, Calif.) Concert Band – 20 November 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Baby, It's Cold Outside (arr. Moss) (1944/2008)
- Guys and Dolls Overture (arr. Lang) (1950/1951)
- Highlights from "Guys and Dolls" (arr. Custer) (1950/1994)
- Luck Be a Lady Tonight (arr. Sampson) (1950)
- New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students Conservatory Band, The (arr. Yoder) (1948/1950)
- Selections from "Hans Christan Andersen"
- Selections from "The Most Happy Fella"
Resources
- Girsberger, Russ. Percussion Assignments for Band & Wind Ensemble. Volume I: A-K. Meredith Music Publications, 2004, pp. 186.
- Guys and Dolls, Wikipedia Accessed 17 August 2017
- Loesser, F.; Lang, P. (1951). Guys and Dolls: Overture [score]. Frank Music Corp.: New York.