Pas De Deux (arr. John Ivor Holland) by Samuel Barber Sheet Music for Concert Band at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Pas De Deux (arr. John Ivor Holland)

Artist Samuel Barber

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 43

Arrangement Concert Band

Publisher John Ivor Holland

Level 4

Product ID 1488436

Genre Classical 20th Century

Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

The composer writes, of 'Souvenirs': "In 1952 I was writing some duets for one piano to play with a friend, and Lincoln Kirstein suggested I orchestrate them for a ballet. Commissioned by the Ballet Society, the suite consists of a waltz, schottische, pas de deux, two step, hesitation tango, and gallop. One might imagine a divertissement in a setting of the Palm Court of the Hotel Plaza in New York, the year about 1914, epoch of the first tangos; 'Souvenirs, remembered with affection, not in irony or with tongue in cheek, but in amused tenderness'. This lovely movement would make a suitable quiet interlude in a concert of dance music and has been lowered by a tone to make the key more band-friendly.

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