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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Andy Scott
Duration 4.00
The title track from Foden's Brass Band winning performance at Brass in Concert 2009. Commissioned by Foden's Band and recorded on the CD 'A World Within' (SP&S DOYCD 276).
The piece commences with a fanfare-like passage with shifting time signatures, before settling into a funk-inspired groove, led by the bass section, bass trombone and percussion. An intricate ensemble section, either side of a tongue-in-cheek 'B' section (where Space Invader images and firing sounds were projected behind Foden's at Brass in Concert) all lead to a powerful and tight finish.
Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado. Following its release in 1978, the game caused a temporary shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan, and the Guinness World Records ranks it the top arcade game.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Alan Fernie
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Duration 14.56
Recorded on the CD BRASS NIGHT - The Music of Alan Fernie with The Fodens Courtois Band, conductors Nicholas Childs and Alan Fernie - Obrasso CD866 - available for purchase on this site.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, NEW & RECENT Publications Composer: Manuel de Falla Arranger: Tom Donaldson
Duration 3.20
La vida breve (Spanish Life is Short or The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw. Local (Andalusian) dialect is used. It was written between August 1904 and March 1905, but not produced until 1913. The first performance was given (in a French translation by Paul Millet) at the Casino Municipal in Nice on 1 April 1913. Paris and Madrid performances followed, later in 1913 and in 1914 respectively. Claude Debussy played a major role in influencing Falla to transform it from the number opera it was at its Nice premiere to an opera with a more continuous musical texture and more mature orchestration. This revision was first heard at the Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique in December 1913, and is the standard version.
Only an hour long, the complete opera is seldom performed today, but its orchestral sections are, especially the act 2 music published as Interlude and Dance, which is popular at concerts of Spanish music. (Fritz Kreisler in 1926 arranged for violin and piano the dance from this pairing under the spurious title Danse espagnole.) Indeed the opera is unusual for having nearly as much instrumental music as vocal: act 1, scene 2 consists entirely of a short symphonic poem (with distant voices) called Intermedio, depicting sunset in Granada; act 2, Scene 1 includes the above-referenced Danza and Interludio, with the latter ending the scene, i.e. in the opposite sequence to the excerpted pairing; and act 2, scene 2 begins with the a second and longer Danza (with vocal punctuation).
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Bert Kaempfert Arranger: Ray Woodfield
Featuring the cornet section - duration 3.56
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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composers: Dietrich, Grabowski,, Simone, Niehaus & Spiro Arrangers: Sandy Smith, Christoph Walter
Entertainment number - march card size.
Difficulty: B
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A = very easy B = easy C = medium D = difficult E = very difficult
The Spainish Night is Over, arranged by Christoph Walter, is available on the CD 'Forever Shining' by The Black Dyke Band, conducted by Nicholas J. Childs.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composers: Leo Robin, Julie Styne Arranger: Sandy Smith
Great finisher or encore - duration - 2.14
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The recording is THE GOLDEN SWING of BLACK DYKE, - CD is CD899
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