Full orchestra (Full
Orchestra)
SKU:
EC.RBM-253
Composed
by Randol Alan Bass.
Orchestra: Pops,
Orchestra: Short Work.
21st Century. Full score.
Randol Bass Music
#RBM-253. Published by
Randol Bass Music
(EC.RBM-253).
Casey
at the Bat was
commissioned in 2001 by
the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra as a part of
their Americana concert
series from that season.
The work is a colorful
and highly descriptive
narrative setting of the
famous poem, “Casey at
the Bat” by Ernest
Lawrence Thayer, first
published in an 1885
edition of The San
Francisco
Chronicle.(The
poetry has been slightly
paraphrased from the
original to replace some
arcane terminology.)This
composition was conceived
in a distinctly
cartoonish style –
reminiscent of the
orchestral music so
masterfully created by
Carl Stalling and other
great film score writers
during the Golden Age of
the animated short. In
addition to brief quotes
from Till
Eulenspiegel of
Richard Strauss, the
melody from Take Me
Out to the Ballgame
(Tilzer-Norworth) is
interpolated throughout
the fabric of the piece
(although the lyrics are
never sung).The first
performance of this work
took place during the
Spring of 2001, under the
baton of Richard Kaufman
and featuring Pat Sajak
as narrator of the
well-known poem.Audio
excerpts from a matchless
narrative performance of
this piece by
Shakespearean actor Sir
Derek Jacobi (with the
National Symphony of
London and the composer
conducting) are included
below for perusal
purposes. The full
performance may be
purchased as an audio
file from Kodanja
Records of Dallas,
TX. ( dur: 8’
)
