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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: James Hosay
Regal and stately fanfare opener - duration 2.16
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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: James Hosay
Duration: 00:02:20
This regal and stately fanfare-opener is a sterling new offering for band. Sixteen opening bars of thrilling fanfare lead inexorably to a theme expressing dignified momentum. Frequent but simple meter changes help to make this an interesting and educational piece that both the band and the audience will enjoy. A recap of the opening fanfare brings the piece to an exciting finish that will set a noble yet festive tone for your concert or special event. It even makes a great graduation recessional. Let FANFARE BRITANNICA be the crown jewel of your next performance!
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: William Walton
This, the first of Walton’s published fanfares, was derived from his 1947 Hamlet film music. In 1962 Sir Malcolm Sargent and John Pritchard took the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a tour of Australia, and for a concert inaugurating a new concert hall in Hong Kong, Sargent prepared, ‘with Walton’s rather grudging permission’, this short, suitably effective fanfare, for trumpets, trombones, and timpani only. In 1964 OUP decided to publish the work, and Sargent informed them, ‘I am thinking of adding horn parts to it and, possibly, side drum’. The resulting edition of what was still titled merely Fanfare was published on 6 May 1965 in score and parts. The initial roll of timpani and snare drum is by Sargent, as are the slower repeated bars 31–8. Otherwise the main 30-bar fanfare is played in its entirety in the Hamlet film. Sargent continued to play the fanfare occasionally at his concerts, and it was probably he who eventually gave it its designation Fanfare for a Great Occasion. This title was certainly appropriate when it was played at the official opening of the Channel Tunnel on 6 May 1994.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: Jan Hadermann
FANFARE FOR A JUBILEE is a virtuose concert opener for brass band, which was commissioned by Brass Band Midden-Brabant on the occasion of Jan Van der Roost’s tenth anniversary as principal conductor of the band.
Various musical elements alternate: solemn fanfares for brass and timpani, quiet chorale-like passages, boisterous rhythms and cheerful festive sounds. In this way, Jan Hadermann expresses his gratitude for the musical versatility of his good friend, Jan Van der Roost.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Goff Richards
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Categories: Howard Snell Music, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: AAron Copland Arranger: Howard Snell
Aaron Copland was a highly gifted composer adept not only at composing deeply serious and challenging works but also at writing music comprehensible to the average music lover. He wrote three ballet scores which drew on the American West for their inspiration including Rodeo from whence comes the lively Hoe-Down. It is easy to imagine the scene at a Saturday night dance in the Old West as the locals let their hair down. One can almost smell the horses!
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: William Walton
Duration: 1:00
The long-awaited creation of a national theatre of Great Britain finally became a reality on 22 October 1963 when a company, under the artistic direction of Walton’s great friend Sir Laurence Olivier, made its debut with an uncut staging of Hamlet at the much-loved Old Vic Theatre. A purpose-built complex of three auditoriums had been planned for the South Bank of the Thames since 1960, but escalating costs and other delays meant that the National Theatre was opened in phases. Between the opening of the first two auditoriums London Weekend Television made a programme entitled ‘Your National Theatre’, produced by Derek Bailey, which celebrated the company’s move to the South Bank. It was transmitted on 21 August 1976. The fanfare that Walton was commissioned to provide for this TV programme, a brisk 34-bar piece, is structured in simple ABA form. Walton’s fingerprint thirds again provide the harmonic motivation. The urgent semiquaver figures of the opening (the A section) contrast with the prescribed espressivo legato cantabile mood of section B. From bar 25 the semiquavers revive the energy to the close. The present edition is the fanfare’s first publication.
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