Whoopee in D Major
Subtitle: Overture for a Fine Orchestra
General Info
Year: 1938 / 1984 / 2002
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental | Score Only (print) - $24.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
An early (1938) non-spatial work by Brant, this piece satirizes the standard light opera/musical comedy overture using a fragment from a well-known Bach cantata.
- Program Note from publisher
Whoopee in D is a reworking of the overture to my unproduced comic opera, Entente Cordiale-A Satire with Music (1936). The overture is based on the melody J.S. Bach added to the chorale Wachet auf, and treated successively as a polka, rumba and galop, with more or less irrelevant circus interludes. This was partly to annoy my then-piano teacher who customarily played this chorale as an encore at his piano recitals.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Netherlands Wind Orchestra - 2010
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble (Cory Near, conductor) – 3 December 2017
- University of Texas (Austin) Wind Ensemble (Pamornpan Komolpamorn, conductor) – 20 November 2016
- Colorado State University Wind Ensemble (Steven Davis, conductor) – 12 May 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
- American Debate (1976)
- Angels and Devils (1931/1969)
- Festive Eighty (1997)
- Ghosts and Gargoyles (2001)
- Immortal Combat, The (1972)
- Sixty (1973)
- Verticals Ascending (1969)
- Whoopee in D Major (1938/1984/2002)
Resources
- Brant, H.; Bach, J. (1938, rev. 1984). Whoopee in D Major: Overture for a Fine Orchestra [score]. C. Fischer: [New York].