Concert Suite From The Boy Friend (Full Score)
Sheet Music

Orchestra

SKU: BT.MUSCH63492

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Classical. Score Only. Composed 2002. 161 pages. Chester Music #MUSCH63492. Published by Chester Music (BT.MUSCH63492).

In 1971 Davies adapted the original Sandy Wilson music, and wrote some of his own, for Ken Russell's film of The Boy Friend. The music, like the film, goes way over the top in reviving the style of the 1930s, and thesuiteincludes careful and wickedly acute notations of period conventions; swoops, sickly vibratos, toy percussion instruments and the rest. Arrangements of the songs, with piano links, are followed by a fantasy in which theheroinedreams up dances by Davies himself.