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Invitation to a River - Bill Chase

Ennea - Bill Chase

I'd love to hear more Bill Chase :P

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I know it's bad to quote myself, but I've added a couple of pieces to my list, and I love hearing what others have to say. I've donwloaded a number of pieces I hadn't hear before thanks to suggestions in this thread.

Anyway, here's my list:

Orchestral pieces

Low Symphony—Philip Glass (any corps, please just do it)

Suite for Organ, Brass Quintet, and Percussion—Craig Phillips (Cavies or Phantom)

Radical Light—Don Freund (SCV, Phantom, BK, Boston)

Symphony Concertante for Organ and Orchestra—Jongen (Phantom, please) link to mp3

Prayer of St. Gregory—Alan Hovhaness (ANYTHING by Hovhaness, really) link to mp3

Tabuh Tabuhan—Colin McPhee (Crown, Bluecoats, SCV) link to mp3

Made in America—Joan Tower (SCV, BK, The Cadets)

Prelude and Scherzo—Brett Baker

Four Sea Interludes—Benjamin Britten (Phantom, SCV, or BK) link to mp3

Symphony 6—Bruckner (Phantom or BK)

Symphony #5 ½ —Don Gillis

Variations, Chaconne and Finale—Norman Dello Joio

Symphony #1 (The Titan) —Gustav Mahler (Phantom, please)

Epigrams—Zoltan Kodaly (Would love to see the GMen tackle this)

Gaelic Symphony (in E-minor) —Amy Beach (Pioneer!, or Phantom, SCV, BK, the Cadets)

Wind Ensemble/Brass Ensemble pieces

Baron Cimetiere’s March (thanks to Nikk for commissioning this one)—Donald Grantham

Trauersinfonie—Wagner (could be an instant classic for Phantom just like Elsa's Procession)

Casanova—De Meij

Journey into Freedom—Eric Ball link to mp3

Choral

How They So Softly Rest—Healey Willan link to mp3

Miserere nostri, Domine—Thomas Tallis

Libera nos I & II—John Sheppard link to mp3

Soundtracks

End Credits to the Film Little Children-Thomas Newman (love this track)

The Day is Yours (Henry V soundtrack) —Patrick Doyle (Crown or Phantom) link to mp3

Chevaliers de Sangreal—Hanz Zimmer (the only thing I’ve ever liked by him) (SCV or the Cadets) link to mp3

Other

Our Prayer—Brian Wilson (Crown or the Cadets)

The Light-Album by Spock's Beard

If current programming trends continue, no doubt some corps will incorporate all these into a single show. (Sorry couldn't resist :worthy: )

Some great picks though - particularly the McPhee, Britten, and Mahler, yes always more Mahler. And Bruckner too for that matter. And yes, would like to see Gmen get back on their Kodaly kick.

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I'm adding Faure's Pavane now...it's a piece I've wanted to hear on the field for a long time, but I forgot about it. The Blue Stars are doing it this year

we played Pavanne as our closer in 1982. Not sure if it is Faure's or not.

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The near impossible part is actually getting the rights to arrange Rush music. High school I work with was going to do a "Moving Pictures" show (I think that was the album name, I'm not really up on my Rush too much) but was unable to obtain the rights.

Suncoast Sound's Drum solo in 1984 had YYZ and Changes by Yes combined.

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I'd like to hear either Phantom or SCV do Hindemuth's "Matisse de Mahler"

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Here's an odd thought... I wonder if anyone someone would be able to create a pretty interesting show from the music of Menomena. I think you could open with "Muscle n Flo", maybe close with "Gaya". "Walking" could be a kooky interlude. "Twenty Cent Revolt" would be intense, especially if they kept the drumset going throughout. "Rose" might be a no-brainer for the ballad, and if they could recreate that tasty swing it would work beautifully. This is somewhat minimal music, in that there aren't a whole lot of layers, but I think that lends tremendous possibility as far as meshing multiple songs together into a killer eleven minute production.

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