Brass

Arranger Jonathan Oliver says, “Flight of the Bumblebee, written by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was created as an orchestral interlude during Act 3 of his opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan. During this moment, a magical Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon into a bumblebee so that he can fly away to visit his father, who does not realize that his son is alive. The music has become more known as a virtuoso solo work for all forms of musical instruments and has even been included into other forms of media, such as film and television.

For this arrangement, I decided to divide the technical demand of the solo work into a quartet, with each part having no more than four measures of the melody at a time. The musical demand of the work now lies with the performers’ ability to make the faster sixteenth note patterns sound as a single line instead of four individual lines.”

4 Euphoniums and 5 Tubas

Today one of the most famous pieces of classical music, this work was actually written as a mere interlude in Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1899-1900 opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. An ideal encore for any tuba-euphonium ensemble program, this work is particularly effective when performed from memory, with great possibility for choreography by the most ambitious of ensembles!

ITEC Day 1 2016 Recital Pieces

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CM2675 The Struggle Within - Jonathon Oliver (TN Tech)

Tuba Ensemble

CM0168 Quartet for Brass - Ramsoe/Buttery (The Alchemy Quartet)

Tuba Quartet

CM 0108 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Mozart/Werden (The Alchemy Quartet)

Tuba Quartet

TEP10752 Procession of the Nobles - Rimsky-Korsakov/Butler (KS State U)

Tuba Quartet

CM2875 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy/Maxwell (KS State U)

Tuba Quartet

OV1001 Cat Affairs - Anna Baadsvik (Beth Mitchell and Alex Lapins)

Tuba or Euphonium duet and Piano

TEP10287 Tubas Latinas - Aldo Rafael Forte (Oakland U)

Tuba Ensemble and Percussion

BW0494 Suite for Six Tubas - Barton Cummings (UCLA)

Tuba Ensemble

TEP10221 Quatre Chansons (UCLA)

Tuba Quartet

CM2117 Four Paintings by Grant Wood - Barbara York (John Manning)

Tuba and Piano

TEP10697 Concerto per Flicorno Basso - Amilcare Ponchielli (Benjamin Pierce)

Tuba and Piano

OV0713 Vise (Simple Song) - Skomsvoll (Oystein Baadsvik)

Tuba and Piano