What to Play - Orchestral Brass Ideas Needed

Eupher6 · Post by **Eupher6** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:53 am

My orchestra director is looking for something for the brass - standard setup of 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba.

It would appear we've been counting entirely too many measures rest of late, and he wants to program something not terribly long - maybe 5 to 7 minutes - to get us off his back.

I'm playing bass trombone in this outfit, and I'm not quite as well-versed in the orchestral world as I'd like to be, hence a few ideas from you esteemed gentlefolks would be welcome.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:04 pm

Fanfare for the Common Man - Copeland

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:04 pm

What about Shostakovitch Festival Overture? Good for the brass and about the right length!

Tom Gregory · Post by **Tom Gregory** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:20 pm

Grieg, Funeral March
Strauss, Vienna Philharmic Fanfare

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:57 pm

Dukas - Fanfare from La Peri
RK - Procession of the Nobles

jtuba · Post by **jtuba** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:30 pm

Sensemaya

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:49 pm

Ditto on the Dukas fanfare.
You gotta love starting on the high Ab in the tuba part, usually when you have been standing outside in the heat / cold waiting for an hour without being able to play a note.

Marty "who would keep that pitch in his head the entire time until it started"

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:43 pm

Also,,,
The John Williams Olympic Fanfare. Since you are also a bass bone player, you will appreciate the meaty bass trombone part in it.

tubiker · Post by **tubiker** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:24 pm

Benjamin Brittan

Russian Funeral Music

Includes percussion

Andrew

DonShirer · Post by **DonShirer** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:02 pm

Add percussion and do Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man".

Eupher6 · Post by **Eupher6** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:15 am

Many thanks for the ideas.

Some of these have already been discussed among a couple of us in the orchestra - the Dukas, for example, and the Shostakovich.

The "occasion" is really a Jewish-oriented religious affair of some type (never done one, so I don't know that much about it), so I'm thinking the Britten, Grieg, or RK might be good. Something in a minor key, anyway.

But I'll certainly compile the entire list and present it to the director. He'll make the call, of course.

Thanks again!