Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Three Dance Episodes from « On the Town » (1945)

for large brass and percussion ensemble

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1945
    • Duration: 10 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Detailed formation
  • 4 horns, piccolo trumpet [en sib] , trumpet [en mib et en ré] , 3 trumpets [en sib] , flugerlhorn [en sib] , 3 trombones, tuba [ténor] , 2 bass tubas, 3 percussionists

Premiere information

  • Date: 3 February 1946
    Location:

    États-Unis, San Francisco, Civic Auditorium


    Performers:

    le San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, direction : Leonard Bernstein.

Table of contents

I. The Great Lover Displays Himself ("To Sono Osato") ; II. Lonely Town: Pas de Deux ("To Betty Comden") ; III. Times Square: 1944 ("To Nancy Walker").