A West End Overture for youth orchestra

Date: 

2007

Duration: 

10 minutes

Instrumentation: 

  • Orchestral/Large Orchestra
  • Elementary-Intermediate Players

Forces: 

Picc.2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - Timp - 3Perc - Glock/Xylo - Pf - Str

The West End Overture is designed to be an exuberantly youthful piece of teamwork with which to begin a concert programme, and a noisy way of instilling confidence and dispelling nervousness whilst at the same time being a showcase of orchestral skill and rhythmic expertise!

Commissioned by Northern Orchestral Enterprises for the Yorkshire Youth Orchestra’s summer 1998 course, with funds made available by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts. 

Written in 1998, revised in 2007.

Performance: