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Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 9:55 am
by PolkaNoble
O.K. In the same spirit.
Camille De Nardis, The Universal Judgement.
I haven't heard a live performance of this in 20 to 25 years, maybe longer. I've read it a few times when conducting community and Shrine bands, but have not performed it. Great Tuba and Euphonium parts
There is so much underperformed music out there.
Maybe
Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture (actually, originally written for Symphony Orchestra and it also ties into the thread on Gerard Hoffnung and the Hoffnung Music Festival).
Well,
I like them

Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 10:30 am
by TUBAD83
Arnold: Four Scottish Dances
MacBeth: The Seventh Seal
Yes OLD warhorses but haven't heard in a LONG time.
JJ
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 1:22 pm
by mikehorsford
Overture Saturnalia by Malcom Binney
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 2:10 pm
by pwhitaker
Schwanda the Bagpiper Polka and Fugue by Jaromir Weinberger.
American Civil War Fantasy - Billik.
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 2:20 pm
by imperialbari
bloke wrote:O. Nicolai - Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
I dont disagree with that piece. It has beautiful melodies. 34 years ago it was on the repertory of the Brit style brass band I played in. I am not at all convinced about that old arrangement, yet I certainly believe a top band like the service bands in DC could honour the technical challenges and the diversity of the orchestration.
However I wouldn’t dare an attempt of writing an arrangement like the one you want for your brass 5-tet.
Klaus
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 3:09 pm
by THE TUBA
Claude T. Smith: Danse Folatre
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 4:13 pm
by UMTUBA1919
A Child's Garden Of Dreams, David Maslanka!
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:59 pm
by Cameron Gates
Arnold - "Tam O'Shanter", "Four Scottish Dances"
Sousa - "Gallant Seventh", "Glory of the Yankee Navy"
Holst - "Hammersmith", First Suite (never gets old)
Reed(s) - "La Fiesta Mexicana", "A Festival Prelude", (the list goes on)
Grainger - "Marching Song of Democracy", Posy, (all the loud Grainger stuff)
Copeland - "Emblems"
And that's only the first half. After intermission the good stuff gets played.
One can wish, can't they?
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:49 pm
by Steve Marcus
Morton Gould: Jericho Rhapsody
James Barnes: Symphony No. 3 (wishing that I could play the tuba solo at the beginning)
Howard Hanson: Chorale & Alleluia
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:55 pm
by sloan
TUBAD83 wrote:Arnold: Four Scottish Dances
MacBeth: The Seventh Seal
Yes OLD warhorses but haven't heard in a LONG time.
JJ
I'm playing "Four Scottish Dances" tomorrow at 3. Y'all come.
[and then, I hope to never see or hear it again...here we have a piece that sounds like bagpipes - *when the band plays it correctly*. Initial rehearsals were too painful for words.]
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:25 am
by Toad Away
Maximilian Robespierre Overture
by Henry Litolff
arr. M.C. Meyrelles
(Kalmus)
One of the most technically challenging and therefore one of the most fun to play pieces I ever had the privilege to tour with.
Was also used as a sight-reading piece for finals at Army Field Band auditions.
-- Tim Loehr
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 12:51 pm
by ZNC Dandy
UMTUBA1919 wrote:A Child's Garden Of Dreams, David Maslanka!
I'll vote for Maslanka's
Symphony No.4. One of the most powerful pieces i've ever had the pleasure of hearing.
Also a transcription of Respighi's
Belkis, Regina di Saba 
One of my all time favorite pieces.
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 7:17 pm
by Tom Holtz
CGT wrote:The Universal Judgement!! Now that's a tune. Fan'em Boys
When was the last time we pulled out Universal Judgement? Been a while. Had to have a sectional on that, didn't we?
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 8:26 pm
by JCradler
Liszt: "Mazeppa"
Tom, Cameron, CGT, c'mon! Can't believe you left that one out!
jc
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 8:38 pm
by Cameron Gates
JCradler wrote:Liszt: "Mazeppa"
Tom, Cameron, CGT, c'mon! Can't believe you left that one out!
jc
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Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:43 pm
by eupher61
bloke wrote:.
bloke "Has anyone besides me ever seen Frank do his 'lizard' face thing?"
Several times...and the "town drunk" line, right?? A terrific gentleman, W Frank.
I'd have to throw into the ring a couple more mouldy figges...the Dvorak and the Gould "West Point Symphony"s. Terrific stuff.
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:58 pm
by ZNC Dandy
JCradler wrote:Liszt: "Mazeppa"
Tom, Cameron, CGT, c'mon! Can't believe you left that one out!
jc
That piece is enough of a bloodbath for one tuba and three trombones, I can't imagine a band performance...

Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:08 pm
by ZNC Dandy
Cameron Gates wrote:Arnold - "Tam O'Shanter",
I played that on the air a few weeks ago, that piece is a riot. Especially when he has the whole ensemble imitating an enormous set of bagpipes.
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 11:08 pm
by sloan
sloan wrote:TUBAD83 wrote:Arnold: Four Scottish Dances
MacBeth: The Seventh Seal
Yes OLD warhorses but haven't heard in a LONG time.
JJ
I'm playing "Four Scottish Dances" tomorrow at 3. Y'all come.
[and then, I hope to never see or hear it again...here we have a piece that sounds like bagpipes - *when the band plays it correctly*. Initial rehearsals were too painful for words.]
Here's a sentence you won't see often:
"It went well - we sounded *exactly* like bagpipes."
Re: D.C. band tour repertoire requests
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:53 pm
by OldsRecording
"Dreams of a Psycopath"- Mike Francis
"Purple Roofed Ethical Suicide Parlor"- Donald Erb
"Symphony for Band" -Vincent Persichetti
"Festive Overture" - Shostokovich (only 'cause it's fun to play)