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TOOT
- a Palindromic Fanfare (2004)
....Raymond David
Burkhart
River City Concert Band Brass Quintet
(Bob Warren, Curt
Monroe, Barbara Pompei, George Preston, Rudy Stubbs)
A palindrome is a
word, phrase, or name that reads the same backwards or
frontwards - e.g. "Madam, I'm Adam," or the title of
this piece. The pitches, note values, and rhythm
patterns in this fanfare are identical, for each
instrument, from either end.
Raymond David
Burkhart is a Los Angeles-based composer, trumpeter,
brass teacher and clinician. He composed TOOT for a
trumpet choir at the annual Brass Chamber Music Workshop
in Arcata, CA.
Sine
Nomine
.Ralph Vaughan Williams / Bocook
This hymn was sung to
the melody Sarum, by Victorian composer Joseph Barnby,
until the publication of the English Hymnal in 1906,
which then used a new setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams
which he called Sine Nomine (literally "without name")
in reference to its use on the Feast of All Saints,
November 1. It has been described as "one of the finest
hymn tunes of the 20th century."
Danzon
..
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Leonard Bernstein / John Krance
Danzon (1950) is the
third sailors dance from Bernsteins ballet, Fancy
Free. The ballet became such a popular attraction of the
New York Ballet Theater that its story was transformed
into a Broadway musical titled On the Town. This dance
displays an intense, emotional Latin-American style.
October
...
Eric Whitacre
An accomplished
composer, conductor and lecturer, Eric Whitacre has
quickly become one of the most popular and performed
composers of his generation. The Los Angeles Times has
praised his compositions as "works of unearthly beauty
and imagination, (with) electric, chilling harmonies"
while The Philadelphia Inquirer has called him "the
hottest thing in choral music." Eric studied at the
Juilliard School, earning his Master of Music degree and
studying with Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning composer
John Corigliano. Many of Whitacre's works have entered
the standard choral and symphonic repertories and have
become the subject of several recent scholarly works and
doctoral dissertations. His works "Water Night,"
"Cloudburst," "Sleep," "Lux Aurumque" and "A Boy and a
Girl" are among the most popular choral works of the
last decade, and his "Ghost Train", "Godzilla Eats Las
Vegas", and "October" have achieved equal success
in the symphonic wind community. To date, Whitacre's
published works have received thousands of performances
and sold well over 600,000 copies worldwide.
The
Musical Village
....Jacob de Haan
The word
musical represents the style and the vocal influence
that this work is based on. Like in a musical, the most
varying atmospheres in The Musical Village pass in
revue. Dreamy passages are alternated with festive and
swinging fragments and lyrical themes.
Oregon, is de Haans most performed composition and
brought about his international breakthrough. Jacob de
Haan regularly acts as a guest conductor with
performances of his own works not only in Europe, but
also Australia and the USA and as a jury member at
international competitions. One of his guest conducting
appearances was at the Western International Band Clinic
in Seattle, WA
Band of
Gold
....George Kenny
This wonderful march
was published in 1970 and was dedicated to the Battle
Creek Michigan, Central High School Band on their
Golden Anniversary.
Kenneth George
Whitcomb has produced works under both his own name and
the pseudonym George Kenny. He was born in Battle
Creek, Michigan, on March 7, 1926. He received an
Associate in Arts degree from Fullerton College in 1973.
He studied saxophone with Santy Runyon, arranging with
Sy Oliver, and film scoring with Walte Scharf. Whitcomb
was chief arranger and associate bandmaster with the
band of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for 14
years (1961-1968) and also served as bandmaster of the
30th Army Band stationed in Germany (1968-1970).In 1973,
he joined the Disneyland Band in Anaheim, California, as
a saxophone doubler. In 1982, he was promoted to the
position of staff arranger and was responsible for
arranging music for the many shows and parades at
Disneyland, Disney World, Epcot Center, Tokyo
Disneyland, and Euro-Disney. In 1993, he left the
Disneyland Band to devote his time to free-lance
composing, arranging, and orchestration in the Los
Angeles area.
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