Santa Meets Sousa
General Info
Year: 1992
Duration: c. 1:20
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The success of Mark Williams' tongue-in-cheek holiday medleys tend to be novelty hits of the season. This piece mashes up three John Philip Sousa marches with familiar Christmas carols. Starting off with The Stars and Stripes Forever, mixed with an assortment of carols including: Jingle Bells; Up on the Housetop and Jolly Old Saint Nicholas. Semper Fidelis, combined with O Little Town of Bethlehem, leads to a brilliant, contrapuntal treatment of Deck the Halls and The Washington Post, which brings the medley to a hilarious surprise ending.
- Program Note adapted from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Tualatin Valley (Tigard, Ore.) Community Band (Kevin Soon, conductor) - 8 December 2025
- Royse City (Texas) High School Wind Symphony (Jason Webb, conductor) - 11 December 2023
- Fremd High School (Palatine, Ill.) Concert Band – 15 December 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 1812 Overture (as arranger) (1880/1997)
- Andromeda Overture (1992)
- Attack of the Cyclops (2003)
- Ave Verum Corpus (as arranger) (1791/2006)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (as arranger, with Althouse) (1861/1997)
- The Barber of Seville (as arranger) (1816/2005)
- Beethoven's Fifth Christmas (1999)
- Beyond the Wind (1997)
- Campbell River Sketches (1991)
- Capriccio Espagnol (as arranger) (1887/1993)
- Cardiff Castle (2000)
- Carol of the Magi (as arranger) (1992)
- Cascade Festival Overture (1994)
- Cedar Canyon Roundup (2002)
- Celebration Fanfare (1998)
- Colonel Bogey (as arranger) (1914/2001)
- Denali (1995)
- Elizabethan Dance (2008)
- Fantasy on "Yankee Doodle" (1995)
- Festival of the Gladiators (2005)
- Finale from Symphony No. 1 (as arranger) (1862–76/2008)
- Finale from Symphony No. 2 (as arranger) (1872/1880/2002)
- Friday Harbor (2001)
- Galactic Episode (with O'Reilly)
- Grant County Celebration (1991)
- Greenwillow Portrait (1988)
- Hawkeye Festival Overture (2006)
- Highbridge Excursions (1995)
- Highland Park Overture (1991)
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as arranger) (1853/2001)
- Jackson Lake Overture (1992)
- Korean Hill Song (2000)
- Largo from "New World Symphony" (as arranger) (1893/2007)
- The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1813/2006)
- Mallet Maniacs (2003)
- March and Procession of Bacchus (as arranger) (1876/1995)
- March to the Big Top (1995)
- Merry Christmas Machine (as arranger) (2007)
- Nessun Dorma (as arranger) (1926/2000)
- Night in the Tropics (as arranger) (1859/2001)
- Night on Bald Mountain (as arranger) (1867/1991)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem (as arranger) (2007)
- Plaza de Toros (1997)
- Plaza Park Escapades (1994)
- Primordium (1999)
- Riverside Rag (1988)
- Russian Sailors' Dance (as arranger) (1927/1998)
- Santa at the Symphony (as arranger) (1990)
- Santa Meets Sousa (1992)
- Santa of Seville (1995)
- Scenes of Wonder (1994)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/1998)
- Southgate Fantasy (1995)
- Tunbridge Meadows (1992)
- Twenty Carols in 2 Minutes (as arranger) (1998)
- Two Classic Miniatures (as arranger) (1991)
- Variants on a Nautical Hymn (1993)
- A Winter's Carol (as arranger) (1996)
- Zuni Legend (1993)
Resources
- "Mark Williams." Alfred Music. Web. Accessed 10 September 2021
- Perusal score