Brass, Reeds, and Percussion: August 26, 2023

This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion stands for the proposition that band music does not have to be limited to Sousa marches, but is frequently popular music—like the opening composition on this edition: “The St. Louis Blues March.” Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band is given credit for making the “St. Louis Blues March” a big hit. Listen to the march as heard in the movie The Glenn Miller Story. The movie version does not sound the same as the version broadcast. That’s because the “St. Louis Blues March” didn’t become a big hit because of an Army Air Force Band led by Miller, but by the so-called Miller ghost band headed by Tex Beneke.

1. St. Louis Blues March
   Composer:  W. C. Handy (1873-1958), arranged by Jerry Gray
   Performer:  Tex Beneke & His Orchestra
   Album:  Nipper’s Greatest Hits: The 40’s, Vol. 2
   Glenn Miller’s connection with Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama
   More about Glenn Miller’s connection with Maxwell Air Force Base
   Story about the recording done by Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band
     
2. Suite I: Symphonic Movement
   Composer:  Oliver Waespi (1971- )
   Performer:  Portuguese Symphonic Band
   Album:  Hamlet
     
3. Suite I: Nocturne
   Composer:  Oliver Waespi
   Performer:  Portuguese Symphonic Band
   Album:  Hamlet
     
4. Suite I: Toccata
   Composer:  Oliver Waespi
   Performer:  Portuguese Symphonic Band
   Album:  Hamlet
     
5. Tea for Two (1924)
   Composer:  Vincent Youmans (1898-1946)
   Performer:  Coleman Hawkins & Red Allen
   Album:  Standards and Warhorses
     
6. Peterloo Overture
   Composer:  Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
   Performer:  Hamamatsu Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Japan)
   Album:  Wind Master Oveturers, Vol. 1
     
7. Bugler’s Holiday (1954)
   Composer:  Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
   Performer:  Keystone Wind Ensemble
   Album:  Leroy Anderson: Phantom Regiment and Other Tales
     
8. Trumpeter’s Lullaby (1950)
   Composer:  Leroy Anderson
   Performer:  Keystone Wind Ensemble
   Album:  Leroy Anderson: Phantom Regiment and Other Tales
     
9. Three Onegin Dances: Allegro
   Composer:  Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
   Performer:  Johan Willem Friso Military Band
   Album:  Made in Russia
     
10. Three Onegin Dances: Waltz
    Composer:  Peter I. Tchaikovsky
    Performer:  Johan Willem Friso Military Band
    Album:  Made in Russia
      
11. Three Onegin Dances: Polonaise
    Composer:  Peter I. Tchaikovsky
    Performer:  Johan Willem Friso Military Band
    Album:  Made in Russia
      
12. National Anthem of Iceland
    Composer:  Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson (1847-1927)
    Performer:  Band of the Republican Guard
    Album:  European National Anthems