Holliday Festival Overture
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 4:20
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: RBC
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- Flute (div.)
- Oboe
- Bassoon
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone (div.)
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I-II
- Horn in F I-II (div.)
- Trombone I-II
- Bass Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba (div.)
- Piano
- Timpani
- Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- *Bass Drum
- *Cabasa
- *Crotales
- *Glockenspiel
- *Marimba
- *Sleigh Bells
- *Snare Drum
- *Suspended Cymbal
- *Tam-tam
- *Temple Blocks
- *Triangle
- *Tubular Bells
- *Vibraphone
- *Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Holliday Festival Overture was composed for the Holliday High School Band (Holliday, Texas, Stan Mauldin and Mike Ary, Directors), for performance at the 2002 Midwest International Music Clinic. The overture does not fit into the standard overture form of “fast-slow-fast.” It opens with a moderately slow tempo that features the vibraphone with an ethereal upper woodwind chordal accompaniment and a punctuated ostinato in the low voices and timpani. After a fanfare, the tempo quickens with a driving low woodwind line and a marcato melody in the brass. The five-note brass theme, introduced by the trombones, develops via a complex set of harmonic combinations and chromatic accompaniment. This is followed by a brief reflective moment featuring oboe, trumpet and horn solos. The fast tempo returns with a rhythmic drive to the end.
- Program note by publisher
Media
- Audio CD: Holliday High School Wind Ensemble (Stan Mauldin, conductor) – 2002
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Holliday (Tx.) High School Wind Ensemble (Stan Mauldin, conductor) – 20 December 2002 (2002 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by this Composer
- The Alchemist (2022)
- Aluxes
- American Songs
- and fragments of a dream... (2010)
- Ballade for Horn and Band (2010)
- Canciones y Sones de Mexico (2008)
- Chateau Le Bombadier Marche
- Christmas in The Netherlands (1999)
- Dance Poem (2006)
- David's Lyre
- Dia de los Muertos (2001)
- …dim points of lights…
- Down Longford Way & Shenandoah (as transcriber) (1990)
- Shenandoah (as arranger) (1907/1990)
- Elegy: Sixteen Minutes from Home (2005)
- Enigmatic Variations (2002)
- Experience the Adventure (2007)
- Fanfare for a Great Hall (2010)
- Fanfare, Elegy and Dance
- Four Dutch Hymns (1991)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (2006)
- Hanszen Parish Overture
- The Hanukkah Gift (1999)
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite No. 2 (2005)
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite No. 3 (2003)
- Hebrew Rhapsody (2003)
- Holliday Festival Overture (2002)
- Huapango! (as transcriber) (1941/1986)
- In Memory of a Summer Day
- In the Land of Green Lightning (2010)
- Introduction and Allegro (2015)
- A Lark's Song in the Clear Air (2012)
- March 104 (1998)
- Masada (2007)
- The Midnight Culmination of Sirius
- Prelude and Dance (2000)
- Prelude from "49th Parallel" (as transcriber) (1941/1960/1987/2002)
- The Rabbit and the Coyote (2005)
- Scotch Strathspey and Reel (as arranger) (1901-11/1982)
- Shenandoah. See: Down Longford Way & Shenandoah
- Symphony for Winds and Percussion (1997)
- Tower of The Winds (2009)
- Tuqa Gloria Emmeles
- West Point Songs (1981)
- The Widow's Party (as arranger) (1923/1929/2009)
Resources
- Leroy Osmon website Accessed 12 January 2022