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Huntingdon Celebration, A
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Contents
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 5:20
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: de haske
Cost: Score and Parts - $110.00 | Score Only - $17.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
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 Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
(percussion detail needed)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Huntingdonshire Concert Band, based in the east of England, is a community band, which was founded in 1993. In 2001, they invited composer Philip Sparke to work with them on some of his pieces for a weekend. This led to the band asking Sparke to write a piece to celebrate their 10th Anniversary in 2003. A Huntingdon Celebration was the result.
This short and lively overture opens with a fanfare-like passage based on the main theme, which soon appears on clarinets and saxophones and is then taken up by the whole band. Answering phrases between brass and woodwind lead to a second legato theme over bubbling eighth notes. This in turn leads to a slower central chorale in the tenor register of the band. The original tempo returns and, after a period of thematic development, the main theme reappears until the opening fanfare returns to bring the piece to a close.
- Program Note from Philip Sparke website
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Louisiana: III
- Maryland: IV
- Michigan: Senior High B
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Pomona (Calif.) Concert Band (Christopher Northrop, conductor) – 11 August 2016
- Illinois State (Normal) University University Band (Gavin Smith, conductor) – 2 March 2016
- Blasorchester der Musikschule Spandau (Berlin) (Reinhard Kautz, conductor) – 30 November 2013
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Atlantic Odyssey (2010)
- Ballad for Benny (2001)
- Bandwagon
- Barn Dance and Cowboy Hymn (1982)
- Between the Two Rivers (2003)
- Big Sky Overture
- Cambridge Intrada
- Camelot Chronicles, The
- Carnival
- Carol of the Shepherds
- Celebration (1993)
- Centurion, The (1988/2000)
- Chorale and Variations
- Clarinet Calypso
- Colorado Springs
- Concert Prelude (1976/2000)
- Concerto for Clarinet
- Dance Movements (1995)
- Deserts (2008)
- Diamond Concerto (2012)
- Diversions - Variations on a Swiss Folk Song
- Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
- Earth, Water, Sun, Wind (2000)
- English Sea Song Suite, An
- Euphonium Concerto No. 2
- Exultation (2010)
- Fanfare for Saint Cecilia
- Fanfare, Romance and Finale
- Fantasy for Euphonium
- Festive Tribute, A (J.S. Bach)
- Fiesta! (1998)
- Fiesta de la Vida
- Five Festive Fanfares
- Flying the Breeze (2002/2004)
- Four Norfolk Dances (2001)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (as arranger) (1910/2007)
- Hail the Dragon! (2010)
- Harlequin (2004)
- Hanover Festival
- Huntingdon Celebration, A (2003)
- Infinity and Beyond...
- Invictus
- Jubilee Overture (1983)
- Klezmer Karnival, A (2004)
- Land of the Long White Cloud, The
- Lindisfarne Rhapsody, A (1998)
- Madrigalum (2006)
- Marchissimo (2004)
- Mary's Boy Child (as arranger)
- Masquerade
- Merry-Go-Round (2002)
- Music of the Spheres
- Navigation Inn
- Once in Royal David’s City (as arranger)
- Orient Express (1987)
- Out of the Darkness, Into the Light
- Overture for Woodwinds (2000)
- Panis Angelicus (as arranger) (1872/2001)
- Pantomime (1988/1996)
- Pastime with Good Company (as arranger) (15--?/2005)
- Postcard from Singapore (2004)
- Pioneers, The (2005)
- Reflections on an Old Japanese Folk Song (2015)
- Roaring Forties, The (2008)
- Sailing with the Tall Ships (2012)
- Salute to a Hero (2009)
- Scenes from a Comedy
- Shalom! (2001)
- Sierra Nevada
- Sinfonietta No. 1
- Sinfonietta No. 2
- Sinfonietta No. 3 (2001)
- Sleepers, Awake! (as transcriber)
- Spirit of the Sequoia (2004)
- Strathcarron (2002)
- Suite from Hymn of the Highlands
- The Sun Will Rise Again (2011)
- Sunrise at Angel's Gate (2001)
- Symphonic Metamorphosis (2007)
- Symphony No. 1. See: Earth, Water, Sun, Wind
- Tales of the River Wye (2007)
- Tameside Overture
- Te Deum Prelude (as arranger)
- Ten Chorale Preludes (as arranger) (1914/2002)
- Theatre Music
- Three English Folk Song Miniatures (2013)
- Three Washington Statues (2015)
- To a New Dawn (2000)
- To a Wild Rose (as arranger)
- Valerius Variations (2005)
- Victory Fanfare
- A Weekend in New York (2008)
- White Rose, The (2002)
- Wilten Festival Overture
- Winter's Tale, A (2010)
- Year of the Dragon (1985)
- A Yorkshire Overture (1991)
Resources
- Sparke, P. (2003). A Huntingdon Celebration: For Concert Band [score]. Anglo Music Press: Wembley, England.
