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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Arranger: David Stowell
Duration: 4’10” Difficulty: Intermediate
This piece fuses two dance styles; the jig in 6/8 time, based here on a piece ‘A Christmas Jig’, and the reel in 4/4, based on the traditional French Canadian folk song; ‘The Mouth of the Tobique’.
The basses have a vital role in creating a Celtic style drone sound, and the percussion a simple but effective Irish rhythm.
A great audience pleaser, and ideal as the encore to round off a concert and leave a lasting memory in the minds of the listeners.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: G. Frescobaldi Arranger: James Curnow
Duration 6.00
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) was an Italian organist and composer, who became one of the most distinguished organists of the 17th century, serving in the cathedrals of Rome, Florence and in the Netherlands. This Toccata is an arrangement from one of his 68 organ works.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Charles - Marie Widor Arranger: Philip Sparke
Great finisher (from Organ Symphony No 5) duration 4.50
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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Peter Graham
duration 2.32
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Programme Note :
In the early 1980’s I had the good fortune to live and work in New York City. Since the 1930’s The Big Apple has enjoyed a reputation as the jazz capital of the world. Indeed, jazz seemed to be a part of the very fabric of everyday life in the city. One might pass Frank Sinatra leaving The Players (Club) or Buddy Rich en route to a gig, while a few blocks south of my apartment the famous Blue Note Club played host to a succession of legendary jazz “Cats”, from Dizzy Gillespie to rising star Wynton Marsalis.
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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: J.S. Bach Arranger: Eric Crees
Having made a stunning arrangement for symphonic brass, Eric Crees has taken this and expanded it in a colourful and virtuosic way for brass band, which with nine extra players is perhaps even more profound and powerful.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams Arranger: Philip Littlemore
duration : 5.00
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony in D minor (his eighth) was composed in 1956, when he was in his 84th year. It is noticeably different from its predecessors in its diminutive scale and comparatively short length. However, the symphony is scored for an unusually large percussion ensemble including vibraphone, xylophone, tubular bells, glockenspiel, tuned gongs and celeste. In the Toccata, the fourth and final movement, Vaughan Williams uses the enlarged percussion forces extensively - the eight symphony is therefore in some ways a highly imaginative work, perhaps even an experimental one.. This brass band transcription tries to remain as true to the original percussion writing as possible, but with the omission of the tuned gongs and celeste—for obvious practical performance reasons.
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