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Indeed...The 8th Darling wrote:You can find Roll Away Bet on Youtube.
I was 10 in 1996. This will be my first time hearing Arcadia play it in person! lolKuxica wrote: Arcadia performed it back in 1996. Andrew Landsford was the drum major. I'm sad that there are very few videos between 1994-1997. Temple City played it a few years after Arcadia did . Tho
se were great years for many bands but very little footage for bands like Mt. Carmel, Rancho Bernardo, Orange Glen, Magnolia, And Rubidoux to name a few.
Has this march made your end of the year rankings before? If not, perhaps a debut ranking in 2013 from Hostrauser for Roll Away Bet!?Hostrauser wrote:Indeed...The 8th Darling wrote:You can find Roll Away Bet on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7SWC9COks
Great march. I might even like it better than B.B. & C.F.
Although, just like every other Hume march I've heard, the top half is fantastic and it loses some steam after the trio.
Luis wrote:I beg to differ, Mr. drdr wrote:Too bad we won't be able to hear it in person down in Southern California!Cardinal Regime wrote:Golden Valley High School (Merced) will be playing Roll Away Bet! by James Ord Hume.
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Arcadia first performed The Conqueror in 1975 under the short direction of John Work. Tom Landes's first march at Arcadia was The Conqueror in 1979.JCYS wrote:I believe Arcadia under Tom Landes first did the Conqueror in 1980, followed by Magnolia in 1981.
Maybe. I'd never even heard of the march before.Cardinal Regime wrote:Has this march made your end of the year rankings before? If not, perhaps a debut ranking in 2013 from Hostrauser for Roll Away Bet!?
Brass Band marches: there are some that are published for both brass and wind bands (ie, BB & CF, Ravenswood, Cossack, etc). Some directors arrange their own. If they do it legally or not, I don't know. It is not particularly difficult to get a publisher to let you arrange for wind band, but you do have to go through the procedure. In the case of "Centaur" (which my band did in 2002 and 2006, and GV did year before last) it helped being friends with the composer, since he not only gave permission for me to arrange it for wind band, but had to get the publisher (Wright & Round) to give him back the rights for the march so that my arrangement could be published by Barnhouse. (although W & R still own the copyright for the brass band version.) It also helped he was the staff editor for W & R for 17 years!).Yoda wrote:Roll Away Bet--
Just listened in the library. Wow! Great low brass parts. March sounds very difficult. Good luck GV...hope you score lots of wins with this one.
I wonder--do directors make their own adaptaptions from the brass band original or are there published editions for full concert band? Maybe the other way around in this case? This march could be an original wind-band work and arranged for brass?
I agree. This is a march we hardly see a band perform out in the street. Great pick Arcadia!
Arcadia performed it back in 1996. Andrew Landsford was the drum major. I'm sad that there are very few videos between 1994-1997. Temple City played it a few years after Arcadia did . Tho
se were great years for many bands but very little footage for bands like Mt. Carmel, Rancho Bernardo, Orange Glen, Magnolia, And Rubidoux to name a few.
Coincidently, I believe Rancho Bernardo is also playing the same march from 1996.
The last strain of the march is incredible composing by Hume!Hostrauser wrote:Indeed...The 8th Darling wrote:You can find Roll Away Bet on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7SWC9COks
Great march. I might even like it better than B.B. & C.F.
Although, just like every other Hume march I've heard, the top half is fantastic and it loses some steam after the trio.
The original concert band arrangement of Roll Away Bet! By J. Ord Hume is available from Molenaar Publishing however, the instrumentation does not lend itself to the standard American band instrumentation.JCYS wrote:Brass Band marches: there are some that are published for both brass and wind bands (ie, BB & CF, Ravenswood, Cossack, etc). Some directors arrange their own. If they do it legally or not, I don't know. It is not particularly difficult to get a publisher to let you arrange for wind band, but you do have to go through the procedure. In the case of "Centaur" (which my band did in 2002 and 2006, and GV did year before last) it helped being friends with the composer, since he not only gave permission for me to arrange it for wind band, but had to get the publisher (Wright & Round) to give him back the rights for the march so that my arrangement could be published by Barnhouse. (although W & R still own the copyright for the brass band version.) It also helped he was the staff editor for W & R for 17 years!).Yoda wrote:Roll Away Bet--
Just listened in the library. Wow! Great low brass parts. March sounds very difficult. Good luck GV...hope you score lots of wins with this one.
I wonder--do directors make their own adaptaptions from the brass band original or are there published editions for full concert band? Maybe the other way around in this case? This march could be an original wind-band work and arranged for brass?
Molenaar is a major publisher of brass band music & marches that have been arranged for wind band. Although, in my opinion, their arranged marches seem to be pretty slap-dash works, without any particular thought as to what WW instruments get what parts.
Since brass band marches are usually written for contesting by semi professional bands, they are always difficult. I can't think of an "easy" brass band march. Most bands want their own "signature" march..for Black Dyke it is Queensbury. Most of the Swiss Brass bands have had signature marches written for them by Derek Broadbent (Muheldorf, Matzendorf, Tout Feu Tout Flamme, Lenzburg, etc). And some are commissions for occasions (British Bandsman, The Colliers).
The scope of brass band music of all types by major composers is AT LEAST as great, and perhaps even somewhat larger than the scope of wind band music. Many European composers write all their works for brass band AND wind band (and occasionally Fanfare band too)...Fanfare band is basically a brass band with saxophones added. They are popular in Belgium and the Netherlands.
JS
