CD "Music for Joyful Occasions"

Another in the excellent series from the DePaul University Wind Ensemble featuring Charles Vernon and Mary Stolper.

Two British composers and one American and all three are of great distinction. Alwyn was equally at home writing some of the most memorable film scores for the British cinema (particularly Odd Man Out, [1946]) and composing a series of beautiful Symphonies along with chamber music. Constant Lambert, in his short life, gained renown as one of the most gifted British conductors, but composed a wealth of colorful music, including the Suite featured here drawn from one of his last ballets. Gunther Schuller is not only famed for his musicology but his ability to cross over from jazz to classical and back. He helped create the jazz-classical hybrid known as third stream over 50 years ago. This collection is another outstanding example of the imagination and musicianship of the DePaul University Winds and their ongoing series for Albany.

CONTENTS:
William Alwyn, composer
Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion
DePaul University Wind Ensemble, Donald DeRoche, conductor

William Alwyn, composer
Concerto for Flute and Eight Wind Instruments
DePaul University Wind Ensemble, Donald DeRoche, conductor, Mary Stolper, flute

Constant Lambert, composer
Suite from "Tiresias"
DePaul University Wind Ensemble, Donald DeRoche, conductor

Gunther Schuller, composer
Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik
DePaul University Wind Ensemble, Donald DeRoche, conductor, Charles Vernon, bass trombone

REVIEW:
Review to come