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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Philip Harper
Level : Championship Section Duration 4 minutes
The opening number in Cory 2015 Four Elements’ themed Brass in Concert programme, this piece sets out 9. mysterious introduction transporting us hack to the time of the Greek philosophers, after which it presents short musical depictions of Fire, Air, Water and Earth. Designed to start your concert with a bang.
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Philip Harper
PERFORMANCE NOTE
Elephant Patrol was composed for the Cory Band and Formed part of its winning Iungle Book programme at Brass in Concert 2019. The band’s performance can be viewed on YouTube - provided here.
The piece is designed to be a feel—good concert item to put a smile on your audience's Faces and is in the style of a patrol, starting quietly in the distance, reaching its peak in the middle and then
fading to the end. It depicts a majestic line of elephants passing by.
The parts marked ‘elephant effect’ should aim to replicate the sound an elephant makes. They are lip slurs or scales, and certainly do not need to be played exactly as written. You may
experiment to arrive at the most convincing elephant ‘trumpeting’ sound. Whatever you end up doing, my advice would be to go for it with full commitment!
There are some other options for performance:
- If you would like to feature your bass section (and if there is room on stage) they can play letter F to G at the front. Suitable bars rest before and after have been incorporated.
- The ornamentation throughout is optional (trills, turns and grace notes). Without ornamentation the piece becomes easier to play.
- If there are not enough petcussionists to cover all the parts, please prioritise Perc. II (snare drum) above others. If you have two players please then add Perc. I (timpani and
finger cymbals). Perc. III adds a lot of musical colour, but is not by any means vital.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Christopher Bond
Elixir of Youth (2013) was written for the 2013 Brass for Heroes charity event where it was premiered on 19th October 2013 at St Paul’s Hall in Huddersfield under the baton of Philip Harper. The title of the work reflects the nature of the band that was put together for that premiere performance; an all-star youth band comprising a selection of the country’s young brass banding talent, with the term Elixir referring here to the everlasting talent seen in young brass players throughout the United Kingdom’s brass bands and bands’ and teachers abilities to keep producing such high quality musicians for the banding movement.The work, structured in three sections, is a showcase for band with a heroic opening where fanfare-like gestures in the cornets and trombones juxtapose rapid euphonium and baritone runs, alongside sweeping horns and percussion effects. As the piece progresses, a grove is introduced – just in the tubas at first, accompanied by a hi-hat - before spreading through the band, definitely stuff to tap your toes to! The middle, slower section of the work sees both flugel and cornet solos, with additional inputs from the euphonium and solo horn before a climax and return to the tempo and music of the opening section. A rousing close concludes the work where all of the work’s themes are interweaved to create a sense of power, unity and grandeur; an Elixir of Youth.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer: Traditional Arranger: Howard Snell
Howard Snell writes: While this melody is not the Island's National Anthem, it can be called it's National Song. (Ellan Vannin in Manx for the Isle of Man.) I arranged this as a surprise encore to my programme for what turned out to be last Granada 'Band of the Year' Contest, in 1987. (I won with Foden, by the way.) Anyone who has experienced the fervour which this small Celtic/Norse nation puts into its singing will know the force of their pride and patriotism ! Yindyssagh ! (Wonderful !)
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, SALVATIONIST MUSIC Composer: Richard Wagner Composer / arranger: William Himes
Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' features a wedding scene involving the two main characters, Elsa and Lohengrin. This stirring music accompanies their progress to the cathedral.
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