Tunes In The Fairfax Band Folder (Also, In The Cathedral Brass Folder).

Tunes in the Fairfax Band folder . . .

Divertimento (Leonard Bernstein, arr. Clare Grundman)
Aquarius / Let The Sun Shine In (From “Hair,” arr. Terry Bradley)
Cornet Man (Jule Styne & Bob Merrill, arr. Paul Murtha)
Slava! Concert Overture (Bernstein, arr. Grundman)
Mama Mia Medley (arr. Robt. Pouliot)
Overture To School For Scandal (Samuel Barber, arr. Frank M. Hudson)
Commando March (Barber)
First Essay (Barber, arr. Joseph Levy)
West Side Story Encores (arr. Kessler)

Tunes in the Cathedral Brass folder . . .

Millennium Celebration (Gavin Greenaway, arr. Jay Bocock)
Here’s That Rainy Day
Festive Overture (Shostakovich)
Almighty God Has Those Angels (Duke Ellington, arr. Henry Dehlinger)
Channel One Suite (Bill Ready)
September
Imagine My Frustration (Duke Ellington, arr. Henry Dehlinger)

 

Horn parts in some of these tunes are plenty demanding — way over my head.  My only path to a creditable performance is daily practice of the hard parts, chipping away little by little rather than trying to rely on energy-sapping marathon practice sessions.  If I mess up in performance, I don’t want the reason to be lack of preparation.  In the nearly 2 weeks I’ve had to start learning to play the music, I have made some progress — enough to cause encouragement that if I keep it up I will come through OK at performance time.