Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1 (Includes hands Across the Sea & Daughters of Texas)
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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1 (Includes hands Across the Sea & Daughters of Texas)
Royal Artillery Band / Keith Brion, conductor
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 15 March 2004
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"If he has a good band to work with, count on Keith Brion to put an excellent Sousa recording together. The Royal Artillery Band, formed in 1762, is a very good band..."
- American Record Guide.
"Bottom line: wonderful music, wonderfully presented - and at a bargain price. Naxos' 'American Classics' series deserves to become a classic itself."
- infodad.com
"Keith Brion has made a career of championing the music of John Philip Sousa - indeed, of impersonating him... Through study of films and recordings, he imitates Sousa's conducting style and handles the music the way Sousa did...
Here are nine marches and a handful of obscure works. One of the best is 'Colonial Dames Waltz', consisting of one rousing section after another and building to a grand finale...
If he has a good band to work with, count on Keith Brion to put an excellent Sousa recording together. The Royal Artillery Band, formed in 1762, is a very good band..."
- American Record Guide(Barry Kilpatrick) July/August 2001
Tracks:
March: Hands across the Sea
March: Manhattan Beach
Suite: Looking Upward
By the Light of the Polar Star 04:49
Beneath the Southern Cross 06:23
Mars and Venus 07:23
March: The Invincible Eagle
March: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Waltz: Colonial Dames
March: Imperial Edward
March: Foshay Tower (Washington Memorial)
Humoresque of George Gershwin's Swanee
March: Daughters of Texas
March: Kansas Wildcats
March: Power and Glory
