D.C. band tour repertoire requests

[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

[TUBAD83]

Arnold: Four Scottish Dances

MacBeth: The Seventh Seal

Yes OLD warhorses but haven't heard in a LONG time.

JJ

[mikehorsford]

Overture Saturnalia by Malcom Binney

[pwhitaker]

Schwanda the Bagpiper Polka and Fugue by Jaromir Weinberger.

American Civil War Fantasy - Billik.

[imperialbari]

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

[THE TUBA]

Claude T. Smith: Danse Folatre

[UMTUBA1919]

A Child's Garden Of Dreams, David Maslanka!

[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?

[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

[sloan]

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.]

[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

[ZNC Dandy]

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.

[Tom Holtz]

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?

[JCradler]

Liszt: "Mazeppa"

Tom, Cameron, CGT, c'mon! Can't believe you left that one out!
jc

[Cameron Gates]

Liszt: "Mazeppa"

Tom, Cameron, CGT, c'mon! Can't believe you left that one out!
jc

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[eupher61]

.

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.

[ZNC Dandy]

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...

[ZNC Dandy]

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.

[sloan]

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."

[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)