[Trombone-l] Symphonic Brass Recommendations

[Ray Horton]

I'm sorry I replied twice, before reading through the posts and seeing 
Michael's excellent list with instrumentations.

I'm going to add some comments and questions about a few:  Please chime 
in if you know any answers, anyone.

Raymond Horton
Louisville Orchestra


> Barber, Samuel             Mutations from Bach (1967)
>                                      G. Schirmer
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Very nice piece - more Bach than Barber, though.  When I played this 
there was no chorus anywhere around. 

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> Brant, Henry                Millennium II (1954)
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Is this the piece originally for 5 players and then expanded?  I love 
the original version, never heard the larger one.  Original has two trps 
and trb as 'enfeebled earth creatures, after the great thermonuclear 
war', visited by horn and euphonium as visitors from outer space.  
Widely spaced on stage - really neat. 

> Copland, Aaron            Fanfare for the Common Man
>                                      boosey
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The music to this says "From 'Ten Fanfares' "  I believe the others are 
by other composers, all commissioned during WWII. I've always been 
curious about the other nine.  Anybody played any of them?

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> Dukas, Paul                  Fanfare to precede "la Peri"
>                                      durand
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We have played this a million times in the LO.  It's pretty short.  
Great piece, though. 

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> Frescobaldi, Girolamo  The Battell (Capriccio sopra la Battaglio)
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Somebody else arranged this, I remember, with bits of Beethoven and 
kitchen sink.  kinda odd.
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> Hazell, Chris                Three Brass Cats
>                                      Chester
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This is the Phillip Jones 10-tet instrumentation
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> Husa, Karel                  Divertimento for Brass and Percussion (1959)
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This is better than the brass quintet version of same.  Very early, very 
tame Husa. 
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> Ruggles, Carl                Angels
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> For 5 or 6 trpts and two trbs.  Orig for 5 or 6 trpts and bass trpt.   Kinda nice.  
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> Tomasi, Henri              Fanfares Liturgiques (1952)
>                                      Paris: Alphonse Leduc
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> Fantastic piece - hard.   We did this on an orchestra concert in a marble church a few years back.  Strings played Vaughan-Williams "Tallis Fantasy", then we played this - super.  
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> Tower, Joan                 Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #1
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We played this a bunch of times in LO.  I really love Joan Tower's 
_Silver Ladders_ for orchestra, but this piece is, uhh, rather common.