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"Sleigh Ride" is a light orchestra standard composed by Leroy Anderson. He formed the idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946, and finished it in February 1948. Its first performance was by the Boston Pops Orchestra, with Arthur Fiedler conducting, on May 4, 1948. [1] Anderson also made arrangements for wind band and piano. [2] [3]
B-flat major is a major scale based on B ... Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 98 is often credited as the first symphony written in that key, including trumpet and timpani ...
This is a category for all transposing instruments that sound music written in the key of C in the key of B ♭, regardless of octave. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Double Concerto in E-flat Major for trumpet and oboe; Jacques Hétu, Concerto for trumpet and small orchestra, Op. 43; Arthur Honegger, Symphony No. 2 for strings and trumpet; Alan Hovhaness, Prayer of St. Gregory, Op. 62b, for B-flat trumpet and strings (or organ) Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trumpet Concerto in E major
Sleigh Ride; Sonata in B-flat major for piano four-hands, D 617 (Schubert) Sonatensatz, D 28 (Schubert) Sons and Daughters of Saint Lucia; Star Wars (Main Title) The Star-Spangled Banner; String Duo No. 2 (Mozart) String Quartet in B-flat major (Sibelius) String Quartet No. 1 (Hill) String Quartet No. 2 (Dvořák) String Quartet No. 3 (Brahms)
First performance Comments Ref. 1885 IX/1 Zum Carnival written before first departure from Florida [5] undated IX/2 Pensees mélodieuses (Melodious thoughts) [5] undated IX/3 Norwegian Sleigh Ride [5] undated IX/4 Badinage (Danse lente) [5] undated IX/5 Two piano pieces: 1. Valse; 2. Reverie [5] 1919 IX/6 Dance for Harpsichord [7] 1922–23 IX/7
The "Christmas Spectacular" began in 1933 when the Music Hall presented lavish live stage shows along with the latest Hollywood feature films. The first Christmas show was produced December 21, 1933, along with the RKO musical movie Flying Down to Rio and The Night Before Christmas, a Walt Disney Silly Symphony, and ran for two weeks. [1]
A winter sunrise in Finland. Sibelius mentioned a sunrise he saw during a sleigh ride as a source of inspiration.. Nightride and Sunrise (in Finnish: Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu; in German: Nächtlicher Ritt und Sonnenaufgang), [1] Op. 55, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written in 1908 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.