AMERICAN FESTIVAL SERIES 40 - 43

Sheet Music for Brass Band

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40   Festival Prelude  -  In Good Company - youtube
by Dudley Bright

The old and the new are presented in this delightful merger of the contemporary chorus, "Lord, I lift your name on high" with "Pastime and good company" by Henry VIII. It is arranged in the Baroque concerto grosso format featuring cornets, trombones and percussion.

41   March  -  The Stars and Stripes Forever
by John Philip Sousa, arr William Himes

John Philip Sousa´s most famous composition was written on Christmas Day 1896. Sousa and his wife had been on vacation in Europe when they learned of the death of his band manager, David Blakely. While on the steamship journey home, he heard the "rhythmic beat of a band playing within my brain. It kept on ceaselessly, playing, playing, playing. Throughout the whole tense voyage, that imaginary band continued to unfold the same themes, echoing and re-echoing the most distinct melody". Sousa committed the notes to paper on arrival in America, where it was an immediate hit and was featured in virtually every Sousa Band program. The composer conducted it for the last time on the day he died, March 6, 1932

No 42   Transcription  -  Rigaudon
by André Campra, arr William Himes

Throughout his music career in Paris, André Campra composed a number of successful operatic and theater works, of which Rigaudon is popular to this day. Because of its joyful and majestic quality, it is frequently heard at weddings and other significant ceremonial occasions.

No 43   Meditation  -  The Blessing
by William Himes

First written as a processional for the wedding of the composer´s son, the music is based on his favorite hymn; "Come, thou Fount of every blessing" by Robert Robinson. The Music expresses solemnity, tenderness and majesty and builds to the sweeping grandeur of the bridal entry, coinciding with the text of the final verse; "Here´s my heart, Lord, take and seal it. Seal if for thy courts above".

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