THEY ALL SANG YANKEE DOODLE (1976)
OVERVIEW
Dedicated to the memory of Charles Ives, Brubeck’s They All Sang Yankee Doodle takes the well-known Revolutionary War tune and weaves it through a series of clever variations.
Brubeck commented that “the piece, in a sense, is an autobiography, made up of memories and snatches of tunes imprinted from my early childhood. Yankee Doodle is interwoven with other folk and national melodies to stitch a tapestry, or more precisely, a patchwork, designed to depict American history through combining fragments of popular tunes.”
DETAILS
(1976) 20 min.
Dedicated to Charles Ives.
INSTRUMENTATION
SATB chorus
Orchestration: 2+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/43[+]31/perc.timp/hp.org/str
MUSIC
Dave Brubeck
TEXT
Adapted by Dave Brubeck and Richard Vogt (English) Commissioned by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Bicentennial Commission.
COMMISSION
Commissioned by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Bicentennial Commission.
PREMIERE
Orchestral Premiere: 1976 by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, conductor.
Choral Premiere: February 1978 in Washington, DC, by the Singing Sergeants and the U.S. Air Force Band.
ARRANGEMENTS
PURCHASE & LICENSING
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