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bandman · 06-19-2005, 10:33 PM

I don’t think that anyone has mentioned the wonderful music of Vaclav Nelhybel. SYMPHONIC MOVEMENT and TRITTICO were two of my all time favorite selections. For those of you who may not be familiar with his music some great recordings are:

SINFONIA RESURRECTIONIS KOCD-3577
Frederick Fennell and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
All selections on this CD are Nelhybel works:
· SYMPHONIC MOVEMENT
· ANTIPHONALE
· APPASSIONATO
· TWO SYMPHONIC MOVEMENTS
· CORSICAN LITANY
· SINFONIA RESURRECTIONIS

FREDERICK FENNELL AND AND KOSEI WIND ORCHESTRA KOCD-3503
Work by Nelhybel: SYMPHONIC MOVEMENT plus others by other composers.

Both CD’s available from: Ludwig Music Publishing Co. Tel.: (800) 851-1150

Another good one is TRITTICO RR-52CD
Frederick Fennell and Dallas Wind Symphony
Available from: Reference Recordings - Box 77225X, San Francisco, CA 94107

bandman · 06-19-2005, 10:49 PM

The more I read ths thread the more I think about how lucky I have been to play and direct some pretty cool selections over the years.

How about my two favorite Patriotic settings of American Music?
Morton Gould's American Salute and Carmen Dragon's fantastic arrangement of America The Beautiful.

Here's a great trivia question: Carmen Dragon's son was a pretty famous musician for a while. Do you know who he was???

Musician4077 · 06-19-2005, 11:15 PM

Man, so many pieces, so hard to choose! But here's a list of some fun stuff I can remember, all first parts:

Sub-Saharan Rhythm - Gillingham (LOCAL composer!)
Hoedown - Copland (couldn't play it enough! solo was awesome to play)
Esplanade - Del Borgo
Circus Bee - Filmore
Urban Scenes - ???
In Praise of Gentle Pioneers - ???
In the Bleak Midwinter - Holst/Smith
Into the Storm - Smith (first high C in performance! eighth grade!)
Slane (Irish folk setting for band) - ???
Fantasia 2000 medly - ???, but this warrants a story.

I played this my very first year at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. This was after my first year of playing the trumpet. I was first section Red Band, and I remember thinking that this was the coolest piece in the world! It opened with Beethoven's Fifth, had Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, and closed with Stravinsky's Firebird! Firebird was all above the staff! I had never seen those notes before, but I was determined to hit them, and hit them I did. I think that's where my high notes started to come in.

I know I've played some other cool pieces, but I've never run across a piece I didn't like at least SOME part of!

Jeff

silverstar · 06-19-2005, 11:23 PM

Oh yeah!

My freshman year we played "Bugler's Holiday" (third trumpet) and I loved that piece. We were going to take it to the IBA festival (which we're trying out for again this fall), but the woodwinds couldn't play their parts well enough.

We also played a piece called "Escapade" by Spaniola (third trumpet) which I absolutely adored.

This festival is also where we played "Festive Overture" and "Waltz No.2" by shoshtakovich.

Oh yeah, there was "They stood at the edge of the sky" by Barrett and Bourgeois (third trumpet) I loved the slow section in this piece!

We also played the "Suite of Old American Dances" by Bennett (third trumpet)..the only one I liked was movement 3 the "Western One Step". The rest of the piece was kinda boring and really long....

Lara

Meldog · 06-20-2005, 01:32 AM

Some great ones already listed, here are some of my favs!!

To Tame the Perilous Skies - Holsinger
On A Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss - Holsinger
An American Elegy - Tichelli
Be Though My Vision
October
To The Summit

Those are just a few of mine!!

Adam W. Metzler

tpter1 · 06-20-2005, 06:42 AM

Trumpet Blower-Tempered Steel is by Charles Rochster Young. I had forgotten about that one, too. Darned gray hair anyway!

Thanks Manny...we performed it a couple years ago. (Although I've never heard the orchestra version!) Was it originally composed for NY Philharmonic? In the wind ens. version, the chant begins with the tubas, bassons on the ostinato. The only wind ensemble piece I have played that uses C trumpets!

wiseone2 · 06-20-2005, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bandman

The more I read ths thread the more I think about how lucky I have been to play and direct some pretty cool selections over the years.

How about my two favorite Patriotic settings of American Music?
Morton Gould's American Salute and Carmen Dragon's fantastic arrangement of America The Beautiful.

Here's a great trivia question: Carmen Dragon's son was a pretty famous musician for a while. Do you know who he was???

He was Captain.

Wilmer

silverstar · 06-20-2005, 11:44 AM

Oh yeah...we played "Chorale and Alleluia" this year (second and third trumpet...long story) and it was just one of those band moments when we played it in concert that I'm never going to forget. It was just awesome!

Lara

MahlerBrass · 06-20-2005, 01:17 PM

Ticheli Symphony No. 2
Donald Grantham's Can't You See? (though I love most of Grantham's music, this is a great trumpet feature)
also, I forgot the name of the famous composer who wrote this, but it's called "Circus Maximus" and it was premiered this year at Carnegie Hall with the UT wind ensemble, one of the greatest piece I've ever heard.

tpter1 · 06-20-2005, 01:39 PM

Ok. Great pieces, folks! From an on-the-box perspective, the favorites I've conducted in more advanced literature:
The Fountainhead (5 movement work; we did 1, 2 and 4)-Stephen Melillo (there's this movement that is all percussion except for a small woodwind quartet...Dynamiting Cortlandt...it's an absolute monster of a movement in terms of sound and difficulty; quarter note quintuplets, lots of hemiola, antiphonal timpani, and a yacht cannon at the end. Due to firearms restrictions, we just had someone beat the h-e double hockey sticks out of a bass drum).
The Dream of Oenghus, part I, Rolf Rudin (actually composed in 2 parts, but the parts can be performed as stand alone works; part 2 is rather technically challenging and 20 minutes long) (also a favorite of my students!)
Komm, Susser Tod- Bach/Alfred Reed
Adagio for Winds-Elliot Del Borgo

06-19-2005, 10:33 PM	#21 (permalink)
bandman Forte User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lafayette, LA, USA Posts: 1,041	I don’t think that anyone has mentioned the wonderful music of Vaclav Nelhybel. SYMPHONIC MOVEMENT and TRITTICO were two of my all time favorite selections. For those of you who may not be familiar with his music some great recordings are: SINFONIA RESURRECTIONIS KOCD-3577 Frederick Fennell and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra All selections on this CD are Nelhybel works: · SYMPHONIC MOVEMENT · ANTIPHONALE · APPASSIONATO · TWO SYMPHONIC MOVEMENTS · CORSICAN LITANY · SINFONIA RESURRECTIONIS FREDERICK FENNELL AND AND KOSEI WIND ORCHESTRA KOCD-3503 Work by Nelhybel: SYMPHONIC MOVEMENT plus others by other composers. Both CD’s available from: Ludwig Music Publishing Co. Tel.: (800) 851-1150 Another good one is TRITTICO RR-52CD Frederick Fennell and Dallas Wind Symphony Available from: Reference Recordings - Box 77225X, San Francisco, CA 94107 __________________

06-19-2005, 10:49 PM	#22 (permalink)
bandman Forte User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lafayette, LA, USA Posts: 1,041	The more I read ths thread the more I think about how lucky I have been to play and direct some pretty cool selections over the years. How about my two favorite Patriotic settings of American Music? Morton Gould's American Salute and Carmen Dragon's fantastic arrangement of America The Beautiful. Here's a great trivia question: Carmen Dragon's son was a pretty famous musician for a while. Do you know who he was??? __________________

06-19-2005, 11:15 PM	#23 (permalink)
Musician4077 Pianissimo User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Essexville, MI Posts: 50	Man, so many pieces, so hard to choose! But here's a list of some fun stuff I can remember, all first parts: Sub-Saharan Rhythm - Gillingham (LOCAL composer!) Hoedown - Copland (couldn't play it enough! solo was awesome to play) Esplanade - Del Borgo Circus Bee - Filmore Urban Scenes - ??? In Praise of Gentle Pioneers - ??? In the Bleak Midwinter - Holst/Smith Into the Storm - Smith (first high C in performance! eighth grade!) Slane (Irish folk setting for band) - ??? Fantasia 2000 medly - ???, but this warrants a story. I played this my very first year at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. This was after my first year of playing the trumpet. I was first section Red Band, and I remember thinking that this was the coolest piece in the world! It opened with Beethoven's Fifth, had Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, and closed with Stravinsky's Firebird! Firebird was all above the staff! I had never seen those notes before, but I was determined to hit them, and hit them I did. I think that's where my high notes started to come in. I know I've played some other cool pieces, but I've never run across a piece I didn't like at least SOME part of! Jeff __________________ "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

06-19-2005, 11:23 PM	#24 (permalink)
silverstar Mezzo Forte User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cedar Rapids, IA Posts: 892	Oh yeah! My freshman year we played "Bugler's Holiday" (third trumpet) and I loved that piece. We were going to take it to the IBA festival (which we're trying out for again this fall), but the woodwinds couldn't play their parts well enough. We also played a piece called "Escapade" by Spaniola (third trumpet) which I absolutely adored. This festival is also where we played "Festive Overture" and "Waltz No.2" by shoshtakovich. Oh yeah, there was "They stood at the edge of the sky" by Barrett and Bourgeois (third trumpet) I loved the slow section in this piece! We also played the "Suite of Old American Dances" by Bennett (third trumpet)..the only one I liked was movement 3 the "Western One Step". The rest of the piece was kinda boring and really long.... Lara __________________ email: Lara.Shema@gmail.com ***************************************** insert witty comment here

06-20-2005, 06:42 AM	#26 (permalink)
tpter1 Forte User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern New York Posts: 2,309	Trumpet Blower-Tempered Steel is by Charles Rochster Young. I had forgotten about that one, too. Darned gray hair anyway! Thanks Manny...we performed it a couple years ago. (Although I've never heard the orchestra version!) Was it originally composed for NY Philharmonic? In the wind ens. version, the chant begins with the tubas, bassons on the ostinato. The only wind ensemble piece I have played that uses C trumpets! __________________ -Glenn "Roses have thorns; shining waters mud. Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun; and history reeks of the wrongs we have done. After today, after today, consider me gone."- Sting

06-20-2005, 01:32 AM	#25 (permalink)
Meldog Pianissimo User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Blaine, ME Posts: 63	Some great ones already listed, here are some of my favs!! To Tame the Perilous Skies - Holsinger On A Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss - Holsinger An American Elegy - Tichelli Be Though My Vision October To The Summit Those are just a few of mine!! Adam W. Metzler

06-20-2005, 11:44 AM	#28 (permalink)
silverstar Mezzo Forte User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cedar Rapids, IA Posts: 892	Oh yeah...we played "Chorale and Alleluia" this year (second and third trumpet...long story) and it was just one of those band moments when we played it in concert that I'm never going to forget. It was just awesome! Lara __________________ email: Lara.Shema@gmail.com ***************************************** insert witty comment here

06-20-2005, 01:17 PM	#29 (permalink)
MahlerBrass Piano User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 371	Ticheli Symphony No. 2 Donald Grantham's Can't You See? (though I love most of Grantham's music, this is a great trumpet feature) also, I forgot the name of the famous composer who wrote this, but it's called "Circus Maximus" and it was premiered this year at Carnegie Hall with the UT wind ensemble, one of the greatest piece I've ever heard. __________________ Music isn't a career, it's a way of life.

06-20-2005, 01:39 PM	#30 (permalink)
tpter1 Forte User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern New York Posts: 2,309	Ok. Great pieces, folks! From an on-the-box perspective, the favorites I've conducted in more advanced literature: The Fountainhead (5 movement work; we did 1, 2 and 4)-Stephen Melillo (there's this movement that is all percussion except for a small woodwind quartet...Dynamiting Cortlandt...it's an absolute monster of a movement in terms of sound and difficulty; quarter note quintuplets, lots of hemiola, antiphonal timpani, and a yacht cannon at the end. Due to firearms restrictions, we just had someone beat the h-e double hockey sticks out of a bass drum). The Dream of Oenghus, part I, Rolf Rudin (actually composed in 2 parts, but the parts can be performed as stand alone works; part 2 is rather technically challenging and 20 minutes long) (also a favorite of my students!) Komm, Susser Tod- Bach/Alfred Reed Adagio for Winds-Elliot Del Borgo __________________ -Glenn "Roses have thorns; shining waters mud. Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun; and history reeks of the wrongs we have done. After today, after today, consider me gone."- Sting

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