This is a high-octane, 30-piece concert band, formed in 2024. It's a reading band, with no plans to perform. It meets monthly, on Sunday afternoons. Repertoire is mostly challenging transcriptions of great symphonic music. No pop, rock, soundtrack, Sondheim, Lloyd-Webber.
Instrumentation: 3 flutes, 6 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons. 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, euphonium, tuba. 3 percussion. No Eb clarinet, no alto clarinet. No saxes except where used in the original orchestration. No strings.
There will not be 'band members.' Personnel will vary from session to session. Thus a commitment to play a session is not a commitment to other sessions. Sort of like Awesome Orchestra in that regard, but limited to 30 musicians for each session.
TBA: Time, place, and conductor. Anyone who can find a gratis venue for the first session will be held in high regard.
The music library is all online, at bandmusicpdf.org
Sample rep:
Beethoven, Egmont overture
Berlioz, Roman Carnival
Bizet, Carmen selections
Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia
Chabrier, Rapsodie Espagnole
Dvorak, Slavonic Dance No. 3
Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana selections
Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night's Dream overture
Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia
Chabrier, Rapsodie Espagnole
Dvorak, Slavonic Dance No. 3
Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana selections
Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night's Dream overture
Mozart, Marriage of Figaro overture
Puccini, La Boheme selections
Puccini, La Boheme selections
Rossini, Semiramide overture
Schubert, Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinis ")
Schubert, Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinis ")
Strauss, Blue Danube
Sullivan, Highlights from G&S operettas
Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake selections
If we can borrow the music, also Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Copland, Hovhaness, Bolcom.
If we can borrow the music, also Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Copland, Hovhaness, Bolcom.
Kindly address any questions to Brett Klein, deetrumpet@gmail.com
Jan. 5, 2024
