Program for February 9, 2013 Madison Central High School Auditorium
Little Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 (1707), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
arr. Michel Rondeau
During his lifetime Johann Sebastian Bach was hardly known outside the small region of Germany in which he lived and worked. During a period of his time when he lived in Arnstadt he composed this work for organ. It is called the “little” fugue to distinguish it from a longer work, the Great Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor.
The Vanished Army (They Never Die) (1919), Kenneth J. Alford (1881–1945)
“Kenneth J. Alford” was a pen name for Frederick Joseph Ricketts, who served as a bandmaster in the British Army. He wrote under the nom-de-plum because officers were not supposed to engage in commercial work such as music publishing. During World War I he wrote several marches dedicated to the fighting forces, including the “poetic march” featured today.
Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88 (1902), Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
arr. Wesley Shepard
Matt Barnhill, trombone
Organist Guilmant wrote this work for trombone and organ as a contest piece for the Paris Conservatory. Firmly in the Romantic tradition, the work unfolds in a slow-fast-slow-fast sequence.
American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 (1977), Clare Grundman (1913–1996)
In the late 1930s, Clare Ewing Grundman was the band director at Henry Clay High School for a short period of time. He then taught at Ohio State University, where he studied with composer Paul Hindemith. He left that position to serve as the Coast Guard’s chief musician during World War II. His fourth American Folk Rhapsody contains “Hey Betty Martin” from the War of 1812, the southern Appalachian song “Down in the Valley,” a drinking song from circa 1900 titled “Little Brown Jug,” and “Rosie Nell,” popular during the 1885 Oklahoma land rush.
Folk Dances (1942), Dmitri Shostakovich (1921–2005)
ed. H. Robert Reynolds
Soviet era composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote Native Leningrad Suite, Op. 63, the third movement of which was “Dance of Youth.” Robert Reynolds’ transcription for wind band is published under the title of Folk Dances.
Emblem of Freedom (1910). Karl L. King (1891–1971)
In his early life, Karl King became a specialist in circus bands. A native Ohioan, he settled in Ft. Dodge, Iowa where he conducted the Ft. Dodge Municipal Band for fifty-one years. He is quoted as having said that Emblem of Freedom was his best march.
arr. Michel Rondeau
During his lifetime Johann Sebastian Bach was hardly known outside the small region of Germany in which he lived and worked. During a period of his time when he lived in Arnstadt he composed this work for organ. It is called the “little” fugue to distinguish it from a longer work, the Great Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor.
The Vanished Army (They Never Die) (1919), Kenneth J. Alford (1881–1945)
“Kenneth J. Alford” was a pen name for Frederick Joseph Ricketts, who served as a bandmaster in the British Army. He wrote under the nom-de-plum because officers were not supposed to engage in commercial work such as music publishing. During World War I he wrote several marches dedicated to the fighting forces, including the “poetic march” featured today.
Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88 (1902), Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
arr. Wesley Shepard
Matt Barnhill, trombone
Organist Guilmant wrote this work for trombone and organ as a contest piece for the Paris Conservatory. Firmly in the Romantic tradition, the work unfolds in a slow-fast-slow-fast sequence.
American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 (1977), Clare Grundman (1913–1996)
In the late 1930s, Clare Ewing Grundman was the band director at Henry Clay High School for a short period of time. He then taught at Ohio State University, where he studied with composer Paul Hindemith. He left that position to serve as the Coast Guard’s chief musician during World War II. His fourth American Folk Rhapsody contains “Hey Betty Martin” from the War of 1812, the southern Appalachian song “Down in the Valley,” a drinking song from circa 1900 titled “Little Brown Jug,” and “Rosie Nell,” popular during the 1885 Oklahoma land rush.
Folk Dances (1942), Dmitri Shostakovich (1921–2005)
ed. H. Robert Reynolds
Soviet era composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote Native Leningrad Suite, Op. 63, the third movement of which was “Dance of Youth.” Robert Reynolds’ transcription for wind band is published under the title of Folk Dances.
Emblem of Freedom (1910). Karl L. King (1891–1971)
In his early life, Karl King became a specialist in circus bands. A native Ohioan, he settled in Ft. Dodge, Iowa where he conducted the Ft. Dodge Municipal Band for fifty-one years. He is quoted as having said that Emblem of Freedom was his best march.
