Martin Ellerby
Composer
Club Europe
Tour for Band
Duration: c. 8.30 minutes
Audio:
Publisher: STUDIO MUSIC COMPANY
Programme Notes:
CLUB EUROPE (Tour for Band) was commissioned in 2002 by Club Europe Concert Tours for the Belgian Young Bands Festival and Italian Young Bands Festival for a work suitable for performance by intermediate youth bands. The work is intended to be a warm hearted and thoroughly positive concert overture without a hint of bombasity or pretension. The composer imagined himself looking out of a tour bus window at various stages of a European holiday and reflecting in musical terms on the sights and experiences he both saw and imagined. Cast in a simple ABA form of fast/slow/fast it lasts around eight and a half minutes.
Instrumentation:
Eb Soprano Cornet, Bb Solo Cornets 1.2.3.4, Bb Repiano Cornet, Bb Cornets 2 (2 players), Bb Cornets 3 (2 players),
Bb Flugel Horn, Eb Horns Solo.1.2, Bb Baritone Horns 1.2,
Bb Trombones 1.2, Bass Trombone,
Bb Euphoniums 1.2, Eb Bass 1.2, Bb Bass 1.2,
Timpani, Percussion 1.2
Percussion Requirements:
TBC
Performance Notes:
TBC
Available Recordings:
Ovation!
The Flowers Band
Cond. Philip Harper
Polyphonic Reproductions Ltd.
QPRL 229D