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Spring Festival
Contents
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: BandQuest, through Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts - $60.00 | Score - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet in B-flat I-II-III
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Chinese Cymbals
- Congas
- Gong, high and low
- Tom-Toms
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Composer Chen Yi wrote Spring Festival as a celebration of the Chinese New Year and all the traditions that accompany this special Chinese festival. While the melody is drawn from a southern Chinese folk ensemble piece called Lion Playing Ball, the form of the piece is based on the idea of the Golden Section. The CD-ROM that accompanies this piece explains this mathematical idea and how Chen Yi incorporated it into the composition of this piece. Commissioned by American Composers Forum's Bandquest project in 1999.
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Truman State University (Kirksville, Mo.) Concert Band (Curran Prendergast, conductor) – 4 December 2019
- Manhattan Wind Ensemble (New York) (Sarah Fernández, conductor) – 23 May 2019
- Rhode Island (Woonsocket) Wind Ensemble (Robert Franzblau, conductor) – 13 April 2019
- Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) Concert Band (Joseph Higgins, conductor) 28 February 2019
- Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Concert Band (Thomas Duffy, conductor) – 15 February 2019
- Northshore Concert Band (Evanston, Ill.) (Mallory Thompson, conductor) - 10 February 2019
- Denison University (Granville, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Chris David Westover, conductor) – 10 November 2018
- Annual Conference of the Lesbian and Gay Band Association Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 26 May 2018
- Kent State (Ohio) Communiversity Band (John Franklin, conductor) – 1 May 2018
- Hartwick College (Oneonta, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Andrew Pease, conductor) – 9 April 2018 (Carnegie Hall, N.Y.)
- Peninsula Symphonic Band (Palo Alto, Calif.) (Jason McChristian, conductor) - 17 August 2014
- Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 20 April 2013
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Ba Yin (2015)
- Dragon Rhyme (2010)
- Dunhuang Fantasy (2000)
- KC Capriccio (2000)
- Spring Festival (2002)
- Suite for Cello and Chamber Winds
- Suite from China West (2008)
- Tu (2003)
- Wind (2011)
Resources
- The Horizon Leans Forward, compiled and edited by Erik Kar Jun Leung, GIA Publications, 2021, p. 288.
- Pease, Andrew. "Spring Festival." Wind Band Literature. Web Accessed 5 January 2018
- Perusal score
