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BTC1000 OCCASIONAL OVERTURE

For orchestra, op. 38
Subtitle: For orchestra
Other titles: Festival overture

Title used in the Radio Times at the time of its first broadcast.

Period of composition: Jul - 14 Sep 1946
First performance: 29 Sep 1946 >>
Type of performance: Radio broadcast
Location: BBC Third Programme
Performance details:

BBC SO, Sir Adrian Boult cond

Genre: Orchestral
Performing forces:

3 fl (III=picc), 2 ob, ca, cl in E flat, 2 cl in B flat, 2 bn, dbn - 4 hn, 3 tpt in C, 3 trbn, tuba - timp, 3 perc (sd, td, susp cymb, bd, cymb, whip, t-t, trgl, xyl) - cel, harp - str

Duration: 8'
Commissioned:

By the BBC for broadcast at the opening concert of the Third Programme.

Notes

Withdrawn by the composer.

The piece shares a name with the earlier Occasional overture [American overture] (Oct 1941).

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