Neues vom Tage Overture
Paul Hindemith (arr. R Mark Rogers)
General Info
Year: 1929 / 2004
Duration: c. 6:40
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
B-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Neues vom Tage (News of the Day) is a comic opera (Lustige Oper) in three parts by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer. The opera is a satire of modern life, celebrity and marriage, involving parodies of both Puccini's music and Berlin Kabarett. The opera became notorious for a scene with a naked soprano (Laura) singing in the bath about the wonders of modern plumbing, though Hindemith replaced her with the tenor (Hermann) in the revised version.
The on-stage nudity particularly aroused the ire of Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstängel, Hitler’s musical advisor, and was later indirectly cited by Joseph Goebbels as evidence that the "degenerate art" of "cultural bolshevist" composers should be excluded from Germany.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio CD: Cypress Falls High School Symphonic Band (Frank Troyka, conductor) - 2004
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Cypress Falls High School (Houston, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Frank Troyka, conductor) – 16 December 2004 (2004 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Concert Music, op. 50 (tr. Duker) (1930/1978)
- Der Schwanendreher (1935)
- Geschwindmarsch by Beethoven (1946)
- Geschwindmarsch (arr. Mas Quiles) (1946/1975)
- Kammermusik Nr. 5 (1927/1955)
- Kammermusik Nr. 7 (1927/1956)
- Kleine Kammermusik (1922/1949)
- Konzertmusik fur Blasorchester, Opus 41 (1926)
- Konzertmusik für Klavier, Blechbläser und Harfen, Opus 49 (1930)
- Mathis der Maler (tr. Duker) (1934/1973)
- Morgenmusik (1932)
- Neues vom Tage Overture (arr. Rogers) (1929/)
- Nobilissima Visione (tr. Sweet) (1938/)
- Ragtime (tr. De Cinque) (1921/2016)
- Septet (1948/1949)
- Sonata (arr. Spede) (1938/2006)
- Sonata for Four Horns (1952)
- Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber (tr. Wilson) (1943/1972)
- March from "Symphonic Metamorphosis" (tr. Wilson) (1943/1972)
- Marsch from "Symphonic Metamorphosis" (tr. Ross) (1943/2012)
- Symphony in B-flat (1951)
- Symphony in E-flat (arr. Rogers) (1940/)
Resources
- Neues vom Neues. Wikipedia Accessed 31 January 2022