Leonard Bernstein: Candide: Orchestra: Score & Parts

This full score incorporates Bernstein's final revisions to the Scottish Opera Version and is available in full score format for the first time.

La musique de Leonard Bernstein sera pour toujours un point saillant de l'histoire du théâtre américain, et son style de composition continue d'influencer l'écriture de chanson contemporaine. Cette source d'inspiration finale de Candide vous donne une merveilleuse occasion d'exposer vos joueurs à une des oeuvres plus durables de stade de notre temps. / Orchestre A Cordes

This collection has been put together to help the learning Percussionist prepare for the particular challenges present in 20th Century Orchestral music - rhythmic complexity a range of instruments to be co-ordinated and the changing role of percussion within the orchestra to name but a few. It would therefore be extremely useful for the intermediate player who is soon to be joining their first full-scale symphony orchestra as the guidance in this book may well last them throughout their time there! Cues are given as well as tips as to the instrumentation of movements the prominance of each part within the overall sound and lengths of rests. Compiled and anotated by AlanAbel. Includes Bernstein's 'Overture To Candide' Holst 'The Planets' and Nielsen's 'Symphony No. 5'.