The inner front cover of the program book of this Reference Recording CD shows one of the Dallas Wind Symphony's percussionists in the act of playing a bass drum that is probably bigger than he is. It is an apt metaphor for the sound of the disc, which is wide in dynamics and frequency response and big in impact.While orchestral composers of the ...
Using a tonally free but conservative language, David Maslanka writes music that is evocative and gentle-spirited, although occasionally his gestures drift dangerously close to an imitation of John Adams. The composer's devotion to Bach's chorales, and his sometimes veiled, sometimes explicit use of them may account for the serenity that ...
Percy Grainger was best known during his lifetime as a virtuoso concert pianist and educator, but a major factor in reviving his work as a composer from its long eclipse was his interest in wind ensembles; Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy (1938), probably more than any other, single band work became both touchstone and litmus test for symphonic bands ...
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