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CONCERT PIECE FOR BASSOON
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WRITTEN BY AMERICAN COMPOSER BURRILL PHILLIPS IN 1942. PERFORMED BY THE 1985 LSU WIND ENSEMBLE, WILLIAM LUDWIG, BASSOON SOLOIST. THE DIRECTOR OF THE LSU BAND IS FRANK B. WICKES WHO HAS BEEN AT LSU SINCE 1980. HE WAS AT FLORIDA UNIV. FROM 1973 T0 '80.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
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Genre
Classical • Symphonic
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Peak #82
Peak in subgenre #11
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public domain
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October 11, 2009
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MP3 4.2 MB • 132 kbps • 4:27
Story behind the song
Burrill Phillips (11/09/1907 - 6/22/1988) Phillips studied at the Denver College of Music with Edwin Stringham and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Phillips’s first important work was Selections from McGuffey’s Reader, for orchestra, based on poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Basart 2001). He wrote of this work in his 1933 diary, “I don’t think anybody had written such ‘American-sounding’ music before. On the first night, the students said it was corny. And it was. But I didn’t care, because it was a huge success.” The early style of this work, stressing melody, self-consciously American references, and jazzy rhythms, has tended to overshadow his later compositions. In his 1943 diaries, he looks back at his "Courthouse Square" (1935) and is struck by “the poor scoring and the clichés and triviality of the material. There is almost self-conscious simplicity, not to say idiocy, about it. Too sweet, although the vitality of rhythm is there. But it wasn’t a bad way to begin a career.” Phillips taught composition and theory at Eastman (1933-49), the University of Illinois (1949-64), the Juilliard School of Music (1968-69), and Cornell University (1972-73). He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Barcelona, Spain, in 1960-61, and received Guggenheim fellowships in 1942-43 and 1961-62, when the entire Phillips family reunited in Paris. He died in Berkeley, California, on June 21, 1988, of a heart attack. His scores and sketches are housed in the Burrill Phillips archive, Special Collections, Sibley Library, Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, NY.
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