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Get your copy of the HBBB CD!
“PAGEANTRY of BRASS” (2005)
Humboldt Bay Brass Band
27 pieces British-style Brass Band
[ 24 brass and three percussion with pipe organ, and piano]
Music from 1600 to 2005
Select linked titles to listen to excerpts:
Featuring :
Rondeau .......... Mouret
(theme used for “Masterpiece
Theater")
Nunc Dimittis
... Domine ....... Giovanni Gabrieli
Egyptian March ...... Verdi (the Grand March from Aida)
Four recordings of music
of Humboldt County :
The Sunken Rock (1865) ............. Russell / Nichols
Sequoia Carnival (1895) ............. J. L. Inman
Humboldt March (1903) ........... Fred Ellis
Eureka March (1903) ............... Bert
Pasco
Four Dot Flourish (2005) ........ Gil Cline
Single copy total is $12 (no extra S/H)
Check payable to: HSU Music Dept.
INQUIRIES / CHECKS MAY BE MAILED TO:
Professor
Gilbert Cline
Department of Music
Humboldt State Music Dept.
Arcata, CA 95521
Review by Kenneth Brungess - - - - - AUG 13, 2005:
If you love bands, then you’ll love “Pageantry of Brass,” a
new recording by
maestro Gil Cline & cie. The Humboldt Bay Brass Band is part of the
much-heralded brass ensemble “experience” at Humboldt State
University
located on California’s beautiful northern coast. The band’s
instrumentation is typical of Great Britain and New Zealand aggregations,
boasting soprano e-flat cornets, b-flat cornets, e-flat tenor horns,
trombones, baritone horns and euphonia, e-flat tubas, double b-flat
tubas, organ [on the Gabrieli], and various percussion. The CD was recorded
[without “sweetening” the EQ] in the university’s
acoustically excellent
Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Everything on this recording is beautifully interpreted, and the “bottom-up”
balance, enhanced by the conical construction of the instruments, results
in
a goose bump-producing sound! [As opposed to the top-heavy, strident
tone of
many of our American bands.] Probably the best example of this on the
album
is the [Giovanni] Gabrieli Nunc Dimittis which was written for the Cathedral
of San Marco in Venice in 1597. In the liner notes we are asked to listen
for a Da Vinci ‘Devine Proportion’ event lasting .618 in
duration at 2:44
into the piece. [Quite a phenomenon!] Also from the high renaissance
are
the selections from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo [circa 1608, and
around the time of
the convening of the Florentine Camerata]. Gil Cline is a world-class
virtuoso performer on the natural baroque trumpet [clarino] and the
medieval-renaissance cornetto. As a result, the interpretation of this
selection is right-on! There is also judicious use of the [realized]
percussion parts and instrumental ornamentation.
Another tour de force for the band is the well-known March Egyptien
[Grand
March] by Verdi which originally called for offstage brass. Following
are
three pieces associated with Humboldt County: Sequoia Carnival March,
Humboldt March, and Eureka March. All three are energetically and expertly
performed, with the “center piece” being the liveliest of
the three. [An
American march tempo as opposed to the slower, more ceremonial late 19th
century German/European style of the outer two pieces.]
Pageantry is the finale and comes from “across the pond.” It
was a contest
piece for the 1937 Championships, and is in three movements: fast, slow,
fast. Dr. Cline, in his liner notes, reports that each competing band
played the same work. The judges were enclosed in a screened fabric box
[so
as not to be “visually influenced”] and were expected to
pick a winner after
hearing the same selection all day! The piece is quite advanced
harmonically for its time, and includes asymmetrical meters in 5/4 and
7/4.
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