Jingle Bells Variations

Instrumentation

3-3-3-3 4-3-3-1, timp + 4 perc, hp, pno/hpschd, strings

Duration

11 minutes

Score

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Program Notes

I wrote a set of variations on Jingle Bells in the styles of ten different classical composers in December 2024, and published them online, where they unexpectedly went viral! They were really only intended initially as a fun diversion. But I actually had a couple of conductors reach out asking for the score and parts, and I even had a request to arrange the Shostakovich variation for violin and piano! So I figured I would list this rather off-the-cuff work here, even though it wasn’t really intended to be taken seriously, in the hopes that it provides the listener with as much fun listening to it as I had writing it.

I should mention that the sixth variation, in the style of Scott Joplin, was written by my friend Cody Hazelle.