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The Best Band Music You've Never HeardThe Nancy AffairThe funeral service for the victims of the Nancy Affair featured the performance of Gossec's Marche Lugubre, a work that had an influence over the composition of memorial music for decades.2020-05-0416 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardThe Iron GardenA tour of national parks in southern Utah during 2017 inspired composer Jerome Sorsek to create a five-movement, 36-minute masterpiece celebrating nature: The Iron Garden.2020-04-0920 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardA Whole World of the Deepest ThoughtsKnown simply as the Chaconne, the last movement of Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin is said to be a celebration of the breadth of human possibility. WEBSITE: bestbandmusic.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/bestbandmusic LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/showcase/38155639 TWITTER: twitter.com/TBBMYNH2020-04-0111 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardDavid Whitwell's Symphony No. 1As a first foray into composition in 1987, acclaimed conductor David Whitwell created a two-movement, 11 minute-long symphony for band depicting the "dark side of the Viennese Waltz." WEBSITE: concertbandmusicstore.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/bestbandmusic LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/company/maximes-music PODCAST: concertbandmusicstore.com/podcast The score and parts of David Whitwell's Symphony No. 1, "The Viennese Legacy", can be found here: https://concertbandmusicstore.com/product/symphony-nr1/2020-03-2612 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardThe Birth of the Modern BandOn the 14 July 1790, at the Festival of the Federation in Paris, François-Joseph Gossec performed his Te Deum in front of an audience of 400,000 and forever changed the instrumentation of the concert band.2020-03-1819 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardPonchielli's CarnevalePonchielli's arrangement of The Carnival of Venice, composed for band in 1868 is a tour de force for the whole ensemble, not just one soloist.2020-03-0913 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardThe Battle of the BandsIn 1845, in an effort to gain a contract to supply instruments to the French military, the bands of Adolphe Sax and Michele Carafa competed against each other in front of an audience of 20,000 people.2020-03-0921 min
The Best Band Music You've Never HeardBeethoven's Band MusicDid Beethoven compose any music for concert band? Find out about Beethoven's works for band we've forgotten, and hear the real story behind his work Wellington's Victory.2020-03-0518 min