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Overture For Band Felix Mendelssohn
1809-1847

This work, which dates from the 1830's is one of the first works
written for concert band. The Overture is in the standard ''Sonata"
form and exhibits the same types of Romantic harmonies found in
Mendelssohn's orchestral works such as the Hebrides Overture.

Andante e Presto (1973) Leland Forsblad
1925~

Mr. Forsblad teaches in the music department of the Fresno Calif.
public schools. He has been an active composer for over 30 years
including the time he spent in a P.0.W. camp during World War II.

He organized, and composed for, a band made up of his fellow prisoners.
Andante e Presto uses some chord sounds which we often think of as
reserved for contemporary ''pop'" music, and makes them fit quite well

 

into the style of a serious band work. "
Prelude - Plainte Calme Olivier Messiaen
scored for wind ensemble by Anthony Donnelly 1908+

Originally a work for piano, this prelude facinated Mr. Donnelly,
a composition major at Berklee. He set the work for wind ensemble
and we hear its first performance, conducted by Mr. Donnelly, at this
concert.

George Washington Bridge (1950) William Schuman
1910~
This well known work is subtitled "an impression for band". In the
front of the score Mr. Schuman writes: ''There are few days in %he year

when I do not see George Washington Bridge. Ever since my student
days, when I watched the progress of its construction, this bridge has

had for me, and almost human personality. ...assuming different moods
depending on the time of day or night, the weather, the traffic, and,
of course, my own mood as I pass by." .
Festival Te Deum (1937) Ralph Vaughn Williams
1872-1958

The Coronation of Britain's King George VI was the occasion for
which this work was written. The tunes are all English folk melodies
and the arrangement for brass and percussion was written from the
orchestral score by John Bavicchi at the request of Oxford University
Press. ;

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