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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]
The dances are scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, violins I and II, violoncellos, and double basses.The middle section and coda, titled Die Schlittenfahrt (The sleigh ride), of the third dance adds two posthorns and five sleigh bells tuned to C, E, F, G, and A (in ascending order).
The Pussy Foot Ballet Music (1962) Pyramid Dance (1962) (optional SATB chorus) Sandpaper Ballet (1954) Saraband (1948) Serenata (1947) Sleigh Ride (1948) Song of the Bells (1953) Summer Skies (1953) The Syncopated Clock (1945) Ticonderoga March (1939) (Anderson's only work written for concert band) A Trumpeter's Lullaby (1949) The Typewriter (1950)
Cadmium (stylized "cadmium…") is the sixth album by the progressive-classical rock band Sky, released in November 1983.The album contents were a mixture of Sky traditions and new elements – it contained a classical-rock arrangement of Prokofiev's "Sleigh Ride" (from the "Lieutenant Kijé Suite"), alongside seven original compositions and the first examples of commissioned compositions from ...
Frederick Delius, photographed in 1907. The musical compositions of Frederick Delius (1862–1934) cover numerous genres, in a style that developed from the early influences of composers such as Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner into a voice that was uniquely Delius's.
In 1947, they launched a full-time concert career, at first playing nightclubs, then quickly moving up to playing classical music with orchestral backing. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith relates the story that in the 1950s the two students practiced in the home of his grandmother Constance Neidhart Tallarico. [ 4 ]
Some of his music pieces, attributable to the salon and its entertainment, were The Petersburg Sleigh Ride, Op. 52 and The Mill In The Black Forest, Op. 57 (1885). [1] Eilenberg completed 350 compositions throughout his life, including ten fantasies after melodies of great masters, like Ehrenkränze der Tonkunst , Opp. 268–277 and the suite ...
Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride" John Christopher Smith – Six Suits of Lessons for the Harpsichord, Op. 3 (London: John Walsh) Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6