Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Sea Songs"
Performed by the Rochester Community Band
Anthony Boldt, Director
Recorded live in concert at 125 Live, August 22, 2019, by Barry Lehman

Score/parts available for free at IMSLP: https://imslp.org/wiki/Sea_Songs_(Vaughan_Williams,_Ralph)

Live at 125 Live  Aug. 22  2019

Sea Songs

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs

John Philip Sousa, "Semper Fidelis"
Performed by the Rochester Community Band
Elijah Gray, Conductor
Recorded live in concert at Dakota Middle School Nov. 16, 2023, by Barry Lehman

Score/parts available for free courtesy of the US Marine Band: https://www.marineband.marines.mil/audio-resources/the-complete-marches-of-john-philip-sousa/semper-fidelis-march/

Semper Fidelis

John Philip Sousa: Semper Fidelis

$4.99 Score and parts: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/brass-choir-rachmaninoff-arr-denney-khvalite-imya-godspodne-mvt-viii-all-night-vigil-22369982.html

"Khvalite imya Godspodne (Praise the Name of the Lord)" Mvt. VIII: Znamenney Chant from All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Op. 37
Composed in 1915 for SATB choir by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Transcribed for brass choir in 2022 by Joel Denney.

This arrangement is playable either by a wind ensemble's brass section (with euphonium/baritone and divisi tubas) or by an orchestral brass section (no euphonium/baritone, one tuba). Low brass players should play the appropriate cues as needed so that all voices are covered. Four players are sufficient to cover all low brass parts. The two horn parts may be doubled for a standard orchestral horn section, or played four-per-part for a full concert band horn section. Alternate transpositions available: Bb and C trumpet; bass clef and Bb treble clef euphonium/baritone. $4.99 PDF download includes 8.5x11 conductor's score and all parts.

©2022 Joel Denney Music. All rights reserved.
℗2022 Rochester Community Band.

Rochester Community Band: 2022 Premieres - Brass &amp; Woodwind Choirs

All-Night Vigil  Op. 37: XIII. Khvalite imya Gospodne

All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, Mvt. XIII: Khvalite imya Gospodne (Praise the Name of the Lord) (Live)

Composed by Eric Straubmuller in memory of former band member Charlie Fish.

Premiered Nov. 13, 2010, by the Rochester Community Band, conducted by the composer.

Charlie's Spirit

Composed by Eric Straubmuller.

Premiered Nov. 15, 2015, by the Rochester Community Band, conducted by the composer.

Thursday Night Trolley

Rochester Community Band, conducted by Garrett O'Connell
Recorded live in concert August 24, 2023 at Lourdes High School.

Public domain sheet music available courtesy of the US Marine Band: https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Audio-Resources/The-Complete-Marches-of-John-Philip-Sousa/The-Washington-Post-March/

The Washington Post

John Philip Sousa: The Washington Post

On Parade (Quick March), by Amanda Aldridge, ed. Kaitlin Bove

Performed March 21, 2024, by the Rochester Community Band, Anthony Boldt conducting.

Program Notes, taken from https://www.andwewereheard.org/on-parade 

On Parade is an English “quick step” march featuring a typical first and second strain, trio, and an unusual secondary trio (a trio-within-a-trio!) that modulates the piece to a third tonal area. The 2020 edition resolves several practical and stylistic issues with the available 1914 Boosey & Hawkes score-less parts that can be found through the US Library of Congress or IMSLP. Instrument parts have been struck or added to modernize the instrumentation. Stylistically, the dynamic range has been expanded and several courtesy slurs and articulation markings have been added to facilitate cleanliness of lines and phrases. Rehearsal letters, measure numbers, and a tempo marking have been added for convenience and errata has been fixed. 

About the Composer: 

Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also called Amanda Ira Aldridge, was born in London in 1866. She was the daughter of African American Shakespearian actor, Ira Aldridge, and Swedish opera singer, Amanda Pauline von Brandt; and sister to Luranah Aldridge, also an opera singer. In her youth, Aldridge was an accomplished pianist and singer (a student of Jenny Lind) and studied composition at the Royal College. In later years, she taught private voice and elocution lessons to British and American singers and actors, including Black performers Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes, and Marian Anderson.
Her compositional career spanned from approximately 1906 to 1934 and included instrumental music, seven piano suites, and at least twenty-six art and parlor songs. Embracing her African American heritage, several of Aldridge’s works incorporate African musical material or are settings of African American texts by poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar. While much of her music was published under the male pseudonym, Montague Ring, her true identity was an open secret amongst her supporters, family, and music circles. Her most popular works include Three Arabian Dances (1919), Three African Dances (1913), and Carnival Suite of Five Dances (1924) with many works written or arranged for military and dance bands of the time.
Aldridge never married nor bore children but kept in close social contact with her students and cared for two birds, Mr. and Mrs. Browne, through her life. She died after a short illness in 1956. 

- compiled from “Amanda Aldridge, Teacher and Composer: A Life in Music” 
in Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2010 by Joyce Andrews

From Old to New

On Parade (Quick March)

Sidewalk Samba, by Clare Howard
Premiered by the Rochester Community Band March 21, 2024, Anthony Boldt conducting. Posted with permission of the composer.

©Clare Howard
℗Rochester Community Band

Sidewalk Samba

Step By Step, by Clare Howard
Premiered by the Rochester Community Band May 11, 2023, Anthony Boldt conducting. Posted with permission of the composer.

©2024 Clare Howard
℗2024 Rochester Community Band

Step By Step

National Emblem, by Edwin Eugene Bagley
Performed Nov. 10, 2022, by the Rochester Community Band, Anthony Boldt directing

This work is public domain in all territories. Sheet music is available at https://imslp.org/wiki/National_Emblem_(Bagley,_Edwin_Eugene)

℗2024 Rochester Community Band

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