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Chamber music / Orchestral music / Wind band music
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published September 9, 2013 · Last modified September 30, 2021
Time for more Hindemith! I’d mentioned in my previous post that Hindemith based much of Symphonic Metamorphosis on piano duets by Carl Maria von Weber. The march for Hindemith’s fourth movement comes from 8...
Music appreciation / Orchestral music
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published August 12, 2013 · Last modified September 30, 2021
And now we move to a completely different style of march – the fourth movement of Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (sometimes seen as “Symphonic Metamorphoses”). The piece...
Music appreciation / Wind band music
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published June 13, 2013 · Last modified February 7, 2023
Summer band concert season is in full swing this week, so what better time to talk about a piece by the “March King” himself? While John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) wrote an incredible number of...
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published March 7, 2013 · Last modified March 26, 2019
I hadn’t planned on posting again so soon, but NPR gave me a reason: Marches Madness: Off With His Head! : Deceptive Cadence : NPR. I love how they annotated the actual video. They...