JPT Brass Medley 2006

2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba

My brother asked me to arrange a medley of recognizable tunes for his brass quintet for the 2006 winter concert of the J. P. Taravella High School band program, and here it is, though the pieces quoted are far too numerous to name. It's worth mentioning that the trombonist is instructed to kill the other four ensemble members during the "Chester" section (he asked for death during Chester, so there it is), which are revived while the trombonist plays a few bars from Sorcerer's Aprentice. Almost everything in there is a famous band piece or some piece related to JPT; there's some stuff from Les Mis (the Fall 2006 musical production), the alma mater, the warmups for band and marching band, and some snatches from my own compositions for some shameless self-aggrandizement -- if the players, or even listeners, ever chance to come across Tolyo or Aleinu, they will find it familiar.

To hell with it; here are the pieces I quote, in order, for your following-along pleasure: Blue Shades (Ticheli), Rocky Point Holiday (Nelson), Chanson du Toreador (Bizet), The Klaxon (Fillmore), Sea Songs (Vaughan Williams), Tolyo March (Braunstein), Ballet Music from Macbeth (Verdi), Overture to "Candide" (Bernstein), Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit (Bach), First Suite in Eb (Holst), Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger), Wachet Auf (Bach), La Vita (Ito), A Heart Full of Love (Schoenberg et al), Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart), Prelude No. 14 in Eb (Shostakovich), Pepita Greus (Chovi), Hammersmith (Holst), Immoveable Do (Grainger), March of the Belgian Paratroopers (Leemans), Four Scottish Dances (Arnold), Second Suite in F (Holst), An American Elegy (Ticheli), Fanfare and Allegro (Williams), Mars (Holst), Music for Prague, 1968 (Husa), Trittico (Nelhybel), American Overture (Jenkins), Children's March (Grainger), Chester (Billings/Schuman), Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas), Hava Nagila (trad.), Armenian Dances, Part I (Reed), American Salute (Gould), Jupiter (Holst), J. P. Taravella High School Alma Mater (don't know), Aleinu (Braunstein). None are used with permission, with the exception of excerpts from my own works, and they were all rearranged, anyway.

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