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| This is a bright, fanfarish version, featuring all of the members of the quintet at onr point or another. |
CD: Westwind Christmas
Label: R-Kal Recordings
Credits: Georg Frideric Handel arr. Andrew Asher Boysen |
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| This is a quiet, jazz-like setting of the Coventry Carol. Andrew created something that had a very smooth, soft sound throughout. Consequently, the loudest dynamic marking in the entire arrangement is a mezzo-forte. The interest is found primarily in a two against three rhythmic tension that is created between the tuba and the rest of the quintet. |
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CD: Westwind Christmas
Label: RKAl 1002
Credits: Andrew Asher Boysen |
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| Karls’ arrangement of this wonderful song stays true to the melody while attempting to get away from the traditional V-I approach. |
CD: Westwind Christmas
Label: Rkal 1002
Credits: Franz Gruber arr. Karl Soukup |
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| One of the giant figures of 20th century popular music is George Gershwin (1898-1937). It is amazing how many of the songs that are known to everyone as quintessentially American were written by Gershwin in his too brief career. |
CD: Americana
Credits: Stephen Bulla |
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| Dixieland is another form of purely American music and WWB presents a stellar example of this style. The Original Dixieland One-Step, the first dixieland work to ever be recorded. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: arr. Jack Gale |
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Credits: Thelonious Monk arr. David Murray |
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| Big Thunder Quickstep is a march by Claudio Grafulla (1810-1880), Director of the 7th Regimental Band of New York during the war. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: Claudio Grafulla |
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CD: Westwind Brass and Friends
Label: RKAL 1001
Credits: Composer: Irving Berlin arr. Jack GaleComposer: Irving Berlin |
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| Simple Gifts is a clever transcription by Jari Villanueva of Aaron Copland's (1900-1990) setting of that Shaker hymn from his ballet Appalachian Spring. |
CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: arr. Jari Villanueva |
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| Scott Joplin (1868-1917) was named the "King of Ragtime". A gentler side of Joplin's music can be found in his Solace (1909) arranged by WWB's own Brent Dutton. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: Scott Joplin |
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| Benedetto Marcello, who was a contemporary of J.S. bach, wrote 50 psalm settings in cantata style ( voices and instruments) between 1724-26. This paticular psalm setting has also become very popular for organ. |
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CD: Westwind Brass
Label: Good Vibrations
Credits: Benedetto Marcello |
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| Desafinado is a straightforward setting of Brazilian Jobim's infectious Bossa Nova of the same name. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: Jobim arr. Brent Dutton |
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| John Philip Sousa was the "March King". Sousa's marches are at the core of American popular music culture. The Liberty Bell is one of his best known efforts. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
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| Dixieland is another form of purely American music and WWB presents a stellar example of this style in a rousing classic arrangement of That's A-Plenty. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: arr. Jack Gale |
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| Wood Up Quickstep by John Holloway (dates unknown) was a work often used for virtuostic display in the days of the keyed bugle. WWB 's John Wilds gives it a run for its money in this version. |
CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: John Holloway |
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| For many people, Duke Ellington (1899-1974) was the greatest jazz bandleader of all time. His compositions and arrangements have influenced all that have come after him. Arranger Jack Gale has made outstanding version of this Ellington Band's classic work. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: Duke Ellington arr. Jack Gale |
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| Glen Miller's (1904-1944) dance band music will always recapture the 1930's and early 40's for many who were growing up at that time. WWB features a mini-set of Miller music with a fun arrangement of American Patrol . |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: arranged by Toombs and Gordon |
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| Suite of The Americas came about because WWB needed some accessible music from the Americas that it could include on its Around The World children's programs. Brent Dutton, WWB resident composer and tubist, decided to compose and arrange (comp/range) music from Canada, USA, Mexico and Brazil. Hat Dance takes the traditional Mexican folk dance and personalizes it by adding little snips of Brahms, Bach and Moncayo. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 2002
Credits: Brent Dutton |
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| This is a loving remembrance of Dutton’s two favorite Jesus songs learned as a child in the United Church. The two themes meld in and out of a gentle reverie. |
CD: Westwind Christmas
Label: RKAL 1002
Credits: Brent Dutton |
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| Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming by Stephen Foster (1826-1864) was transcribed from the Port Royal Band Books of the 3rd New Hampshire Regimental Band. It is a lovely ballad that was so highly thought of in its day that the musicians of Pittsburgh played it at Foster's funeral. |
CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: Stephen Foster arr. Jari Villanueva |
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| Suite of The Americas came about because WWB needed some accessible music from the Americas that it could include on its Around The World children's programs. Joplisousiana combines the music of Joplin and Sousa at the same time to make an off balance but joyous closing salute to the United States of America. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
Credits: Brent Dutton |
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| *The Siren of Urak (pub. Canadian Music Center)In The Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumerian mythology, a special lady (the siren) from the city state of Urak is used to subdue the mighty wildman Enkidu. The viola soloist confronts the various personalities of the members of the brass quintet and subdues them one by one; thus, at the end of the work they form a passive accompaniment to her rhapsodic musings. This piece was commissioned by SDSU. |
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Label: R-Kal
Credits: Composer: Brent Dutton, Karen Elaine, viola |
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| Suite of The Americas came about because WWB needed some accessible music from the Americas that it could include on its Around The World children's programs.Une Feuille Errante combines the French Canadian folksong Un Canadien Errant and the English Canadian tune The Maple Leaf Forever (two pieces that are never heard together!) and melds them into a wistful work which translates as A Wondering Leaf. |
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CD: Americana
Label: WWCD 1002
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| Although Debussy wrote no brass ensemble music, some of his piano works lend themselves to transcription. Since it is such wonderful music, Brent Dutton made a suite of three of them so that WWB could get in on the fun. |
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CD: Westwind Brass & Friends
Label: R-Kal Recordings
Credits: Claude-Achille Debussy arr. Brent Dutton |
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| The fanfare is a festive work commissioned by the San Diego State University Steering Commitee for the 100th anniversary of the University in 1997. The fanfare pays homage to the last 100 years and looks forward to the next 100 years by using the letters S.D.S.U. and the numerology to generate the thematic material that comprises the entire piece. |
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CD: Westwind Brass & Friends
Label: R-Kal Recordings
Credits: Brent Dutton |
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| Although Debussy wrote no brass ensemble music, some of his piano works lend themselves to transcription. Since it is such wonderful music, Brent Dutton made a suite of three of them so that WWB could get in on the fun. |
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CD: Westwind Brass and Friends
Label: R-Kal Recordings
Credits: Claude-Achille Debussy arr. Brent Dutton |
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