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Re: Re: Brass Band and Piano



> David Buckley wrote:
> The Ray Steadman Allen piece is called Christ is the Answer, a
Gershwinesque
> arrangement with singing in the middle (can be done as trombone
quartette)...

> And then Thomas Morgan wrote:

> But the whole point is that people sing in it, and i'd hardly call it
Gershwinesque. Though it does use a hymn tune, i wouldnt call it an
arrangement, otherwise all SA music would be classed as arrangements (sorry,
having grown up in the SA im quite picky with regards to SA music!)

Now you have my curiosity up.  I'm going have to go back and listen
to this piece again.  I thought the trombone idea was a good one.
That's a great solution if you don't have good sounding voices.

Dave.....how did that section sound with just trombones in relationship to
the rest of the piece?  As I recall, it was written for male chorus which
would work well for trombones.  All the men (and women) humming the melody
with trombones playing in four parts would also sound good.

Thomas... I would consider much of the SA repertoire as "arrangements" and
should be designated as that.  I'm not referring
to pieces like "The Holy War" and "My Strenght My Tower" which
are more compositional and use the hymn tune as a vehicle.

I grew up in the SA as well and am very "picky" in regards to music in
general.  Why single out SA music?   Very often SA musicians seem to
separate SA music from all other music.  Great music is great music and
bad music is bad music, no matter where it comes from.

Mark Freeh
(New York City)

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