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Chorale And Alleluia Howard Hanson

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Chorale and Alleluia Howard Hanson (1896 - 1981) Dr. Howard Hanson enjoyed a celebrated international music career including becoming the first composer to enter the American Academy in Rome in 1921, an appointment as director of the Eastman School of Music in 1924, and winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his Symphony No. 4. Chorale and Alleluia was Dr. Hanson's first of five works for wind band, commissioned in 1954 by Edwin Franko Goldman for the American Bandmasters Association.

O Magnum Mysterium Morgen Lauridsen (b. 1943) Transcribed for band by H. Robert Reynold Translating to "O Great Mystery" Morten Lauridsen's choral setting of the sacred motet O Magnum Mysterium was …show more content…

While Chester was the final work completed for his orchestral set, it was Schumann's first to be adapted for band. The folk tune first appeared in Billings' 1778 collection "The Singing Master's Assistant", quickly rising in popularity Chester became the "song of the American Revolution" as both the music and the words so accurately expressed the colonists burning desire for freedom.

The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol Percy Grainger (1882-1961) Grainger's settings of The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol have existed in many forms. Originally composed for solo piano in 1911, Grainger later published a version for solo cello (or violin) and piano in 1916. At the time of his death in 1961 there was only an incomplete sketch of the tune orchestrated for Wind Band. In 1965 Edwin Franko Goldman published a "completion and scoring" of the work that is based upon Grainger's sketch, but varies considerably from the original composers length and harmonizations.

Armenian Dances Alfred Reed

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