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Genre: Marches
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 19-FEB-1991

Track Listing

1. In Storm & Sunshine, march for band
2. Whip & Spur for band
3. Invictus for band
4. The Big Cage, circus galop for band
5. Bones trombone for band
6. Them Basses, for band
7. The Circus Bee, for band
8. The Screamer, for band
9. Thunder and Blazes, for band
10. Robinson's Grand Entrée for band
11. Circus Days for band
12. Bombasto for band
13. The Squealer, for band
14. Rolling Thunder for band
15. Bennett's Triumphal for band
16. Bravura for band
17. Bugles and Drum for band
18. Illinois March for band
19. Children's March for band
20. The Interlochen Bowl, for band
21. Onward-Upward for band
22. Boy Scouts of America for band
23. Americans We for band
24. Officer of the Day for band
25. March for band ('Grandioso')
26. Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard March for band
27. The Mad Major for orchestra/band
28. Victory at Sea, film score: Guadalcanal March

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88376 in Music
• Brand: FENNELL,FREDRICK
• Released on: 1991-02-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

More than the Big Top
Frederick Fennell's position as America's leading band master is solid, but he is less known perhaps as a scholar. Over his long recording career (which continues now though he's well past 80) Fennell has also documented a rich part of America's musical heritage. This CD focuses on the circus marches, but that's only half the story. Screamers is actually a CD compilation of two LPs Fennell made in the early sixties and, as good as the circus marches are, the disc is equally valuable for the selection of marches by Fennell's great musical mentor Edwin Franko Goldman. Special treasures on the disc include rollicking circus marches like Them Basses and The Screamer (a reference to the steam pipe organs at early circuses), but also classic Goldman fare like On the Mall, Onward, Upward, and the utterly charming Children's March that forms a pastiche from Pop Goes the Weasel and a dozen other kids' favorites. The sound quality continues to be remarkably good. These are more than high steppers -- it's a collection of wonderfully melodic, wholly infectious tunes worth savoring.

Best recording of circus marches.
Simply put, there are recordings of circus marches on this CD which will blow your mind. Fennell really captured the heart of the fever-pitch nature of live, all-out circus music. There are a few gems on this album that must be owned if you have any interest in energetic band music. Some of the rest is just "classics", but don't let that deter you!

Sounds even better than when I first heard it
When I first heard the last eleven marches on this recording; I heard them on tape, and I really enjoyed them, this was back in 1988 when I was in the seventh grade. When I moved in the winter of 1988, I lost that tape. I was very sad when I did, and it was not until the summer of 2002 that I saw this recording at amazon; 14 years later still great, and sounds even better on CD than it did on tape. This time was even better, because it has even more marches, in the old tape, it had what on this recording are tracks 17-28. Tracks 1-16 are equally good, this recording is of a great sentimental value for me...I hope you enjoy as much as I have 14 years later....