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Gillian Bibby  

11 Characters in Search of a Composer

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra or military band

• Instrumentation
  2 piccolo,2 flutes, ob, 6 cl,2 alto sax, 1 tenor sax,1 baritone sax, bsn, 4 hn, 6 cornets, 2 trp, 2 trm, euph, E flat bass, B flat bass, tba, cb, perc (timp, bass dr, s-dr, 2 tomtom, tubular bells, vibra phone, xylophone, tamtam, sus cymbal, castanets, ratchet.

Kit Powell  

6 Fragments for 4 Trombones

for trombone quartet

• Programme Note

  At my farewell from the conservatorium (June 2003) I spoke to Kari Lassauer, Philip’s first trombone teacher in CH and he said if I were to write something for trombone quartet he would be pleased to perform it with his group (in St Gallen where he also plays in the St Galler Oper). I was pleased to have a new performance possibility and set to work straight away using the ‘Gaol Bird’ (see above) as a starting point. At much the same time I heard a new work by Rudolf Kelterborn in which longish movements were separated be short and often sparsely orchestrated fragments. What stayed with me in the end were these fragments and so came the idea for this suite. Apart from the song-like second movement (‘Gaol Bird’) and the clock-like 3rd movement the pieces are abstract but try to use typical trombone sounds with glissandi, big dynamic changes and wahwah mutes. I sent the score and parts off to Kari L. in March 2004, he thanked me and promised I would hear more soon. A year went by. I wrote him an email. He said he was trying to arrange a performance for April or May. As I write it’s now 17. May and so far not a word � although I specially asked to be able to hear an earlyish rehearsal, it’s important to me that I have time to make any improvements that may be necessary.

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John Rimmer  

A Cambridge Canzona

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1961, r. 2008
for brass quintet (orchestral instruments)

• Instrumentation
  trumpet 1, trumpet 2, horn in F, trombone, tuba
• Programme Note

  Brass band instrument version available here >>

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John Rimmer  

A Cambridge Canzona

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1961, r. 2008
for brass quintet (brass band instruments)

• Instrumentation
  two trumpets or cornets, horn in F or E flat, tenor trombone, tuba
• Programme Note

  Orchestral instrument version available here >>

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David Hamilton  

A Flight of Dragons

 Year: 2002
for brass band

• Programme Note

  This work is a re-scoring of three movements from my work for choir and brass band ‘The Dragons are Singing Tonight’. That work sets poems by Jack Prelutsky, an American poet, whose poetry for children is highly regarded and widely anthologised. One of the movements, the 2nd of this set, was already just for brass band, and I added two other movements to make a short suite. Essentially the original choral parts have been absorbed into the band texture. Although several possibilities exist for a collective noun for dragons, apparently a ‘flight’ is the most widely used word. ‘The Mechanical Dragon’ is made up of all sorts of bits and pieces which might be found around the house, from rusty shovels to unmendable socks. The poem also describes some of the noises it makes. ‘Boom! the thunder dragon’ is a description of the dragon who claims ‘I am Boom the thunder dragon, taller than the tallest trees, I stir mighty whirlwinds when I whisper, mighty cyclones when I sneeze…’. The poem for the final movement suggests that while dragons were once believed in, their time is now over and they’ve lived their last. Or have they? ‘The Dragons are Singing Tonight’ was commissioned by Auckland Choral Society (conductor: Peter Watts) with funding provided by Creative New Zealand. The texts from ‘The Dragons are Singing Tonight’ were used by kind permission of the poet and Greenwillow Books, New York. ‘The Dragons are Singing Tonight’ was first performed on 29 June 1996 by Auckland Choral Society and Fosters Auckland Brass, conducted by Peter Watts. It has since been widely performed in New Zealand and also in Canada and England.

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David Farquhar  

A Telephonic Canon (801 9916)

 Year: 2002
for two horns

John Rimmer  

Agincourt

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2002
March for Brass Band

• Instrumentation
  standard Brass Band
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John Ritchie  

Alley of Shandan

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1988
March Memoir for Brass Band

Eric Biddington  

Andante

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for horn and piano

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Gillian Whitehead  

Antiphons

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1980
for brass nonet

• Instrumentation
  3trumpets, 2horns, 3trombones, tuba
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