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Categories: Howard Snell Music, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, ANNUAL SPRING SALE 2023 Composer: George Gershwin Arranger: Howard Snell
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Howard Snell writes :
Gershwin's own words convey perfectly his plan for the piece. "My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and absorbs the French atmosphere." Later, he enters a night-club where he experiences more than "a spasm of homesickness." But next day out on the street the visitor "once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life" and we are back again with "the street noises and French atmosphere."
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: D. Masters
Three small band arrangements especially written for young brass players.
Scored for Cornets, Eb.Horns, Baritone/Trombone, Euphonium/Bb.Bass, Eb.Bass and Percussion
Includes :
The King's Hunting Jig:
Canzonet by Haydn:
Scherzo by Beethoven.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: William Himes
Duration 3.30
A broad, stately opening may hark back to a bygone age, but the traditional ‘March of the Kings’ soon begins to swing! There’s a solo spot for the repiano cornet to shine, and band just love this piece. Composer William Himes manages to transfer the jazz idion effortlessly to the brass band.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Philip Sparke
Duration 8.38
Three Klezmer Miniatures is Philip Sparke’s third work based on traditional Jewish klezmer melodies, after Shalom! and A Klezmer Karnival. Klezmer music originated in the ‘shtetl’ (villages) and the ghettos of Eastern Europe, where itinerant Jewish troubadours, known as ‘klezmorim, had performed at celebrations, particularly weddings, since the early Middle Ages.
‘Klezmer’ is a yiddish term combining the Hebrew words ‘kley’ (instrument) and ‘zemer’ (song) and the roots of the style are found in secular melodies, popular dances, Jewish ‘hazanut (cantorial music) and also the ‘nigunim. the wordless melodies intoned by the ‘Hasidim’ (orthodox Jews). Since the l6” century, lyrics had been added to klezmer music, due to the ‘badkhn’ (the master of ceremony at weddings), to the ‘Purimshpil’ (the play of Esther at Purim) and to traditions of the yiddish theatre, but the term gradually became synonymous with instrumental music, particularly featuring the violin and clarinet.
Three Klezmer Miniatures uses the following traditional tunes: 1. Sham Harei Golan (There are the mountains of Golan) and Nigun Shel}’ossi, a circle dance 2. Tumbalalaika, a Russian Jewish love song 3. Hava Nagila, perhaps the most famous of all Jewish folk dances; the title means ‘let us rejoice’.
If you enjoyed listening to this extract, you can buy the full performance CD on this site. The CD is "TOCCATA e FANTASIA" with Foden's Brass Band conducted by Ian Porthouse.
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