Keith Brion - At the Symphony 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1980 the question InchWhere is Sousa's audience today?Inch gave rise to Keith Brion 's Sousa orchestral concerts. Brion reasoned that in modern America, Sousa's most natural audience was now attending symphony orchestra pops concerts rather than band performances. Next wondering if a symphony orchestra could perform a band concert, he recalled that Sousa had scored more than eighty of his major band compositions for orchestra. In addition, most of the other music used by Sousa was really orchestral music transcribed for band. So Brion's InchSousa at the SymphonyInch concerts were born. For almost two decades now these programs have been a flourishing attraction on the large circuit of American symphony orchestras that present InchpopsInch concerts. Dozens of orchestras have presented them three times or more. This recording features many of the favorite items heard on these popular concerts. The Overture to the Irish Dragoon and Nymphalin are performed in their original settings. The two humoresques and Song of Grace and Songs of Glory are performed in arrangements by Keith Brion. The marches have been enlarged by Brion from their original Sousa versions (for small theatre orchestra) to full symphony orchestra status. The model for these adaptations has been Sousa's own unpublished concert arrangements for his large symphonic band. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), the oldest symphonic ensemble in Slovakia, was founded in 1929 at the instance of Milos Ruppeldt and Oskar Nedbal, prominent personalities in the sphere of music. Ondrej Lenard was appointed it's conductor in 1970 and in 1977 it's conductor-in-chief, succeeded recently by Robert Stankovsky. The orchestra has given successful concerts both at home and abroad, in Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Hong Kong and Japan. For