What is the best overture? WILLIAM TELL,? FESTIVE? 1812,? LIGHT CAVALRY? etc..

Hi,

Deffinetely the 1812. I played it with the NCO last year and instead of canons we got the audience to blow up paper bags and burst them. It was chaos!!!
I think it's a real uplifting piece!

Luv
Daisy
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Polly,

You didn't tell me about that! i want all of the details now!

There's bazillions of great ones, but I particularly like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture - the string parts at the beginning - whoah!

1812, we did it at county orchestra at easter and it sounded really cool!

I like the Hebrides, Carnival, Marriage of Figaro, and the 1812. Did anyone see the Nation's Favourite Prom last year? There was a public vote for favourite overture. Figaro and William Tell came top.

definitely Sir Malcolm Arnold's "Grand, Grand Overture" with the vacuum cleaners and floor polisher (new recording out on Chandos recently..)

Overture to 'The Yeoman of the Guard' - Sullivan
An English Overture - Paul Lewis
Overture to 'Crazy for You' - Gershwin

David

QUOTE (Alibonebone! @ May 12 2005, 03:48 PM)

There's bazillions of great ones, but I particularly like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture - the string parts at the beginning - whoah!

Know what you mean!! and William Tell is fun to play, what with the cool bowing and the stamp in the general pause! I quite like the overture to Verdis La Traviata