Concert Band - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1296692 Composed by Arthur Oscar Honegger. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,Classical,Multicultural,World. Score and Parts. 86 pages. John Ivor Holland #886856. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1296692). Inspired by a vacation in the Swiss Alps above Bern in 1920, this short piece was composed by Arthur Honegger for chamber orchestra and given its first performance in February 1921 in Paris, winning an audience prize for the best work performed that night; the first British performance was given 6 months later in London. A member of Les Six (a collective of composers based in Paris at the turn of the 20th century), Honegger would go on to write many symphonies, concertos and other large works, so this more intimate work has been performed many times over the years by orchestras around the world where situations call for a smaller ensemble. This arrangement for concert band includes important string bass and contrabass clarinet parts to bring the necessary sustained resonance required.
