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THIS IS A BRIGHT, BRISK, CHEERFUL COMPOSITION WRITTEN BY GLENN OSSER. PERFORMED BY THE TEXAS MUSIC EDUCATOR'S ASSOCIATION (TMEA) ALL STATE SYMPHONIC BAND. THE CONCERTS WERE AND ARE STILL PERFORMED IN SAN ANTONIO, TX.

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Symphonic Band Performances

Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi

Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Symphonic

Peak in subgenre #15

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

October 09, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.8 MB • 184 kbps • 2:09

Story behind the song

Abe (Glenn) Osser (born August 28, 1914) was an American musician, musical arranger, orchestra leader, and songwriter.

His birthname was Abraham (Abe), but much of his work was under the name Glenn; he can be found with references under both names. He also worked under a number of other names[1]: Arthur Meisel, Bob Marvel, Maurice Pierre, and others.

He was born in Munising, Michigan, the child of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He studied piano, violin, saxophone and clarinet in high school, and went on to study music at the University of Michigan, beginning in music education and switching to music theory, graduating in 1935. After graduation he worked with a college dance band, and on advice from the band leader, moved to New York City, where he met music publisher Charles Warren, who became Osser's mentor. With introductions from Warren, Osser began arranging for Bob Crosby, Vincent Lopez, Al Donahue, Charlie Barnet, Bunny Berigan, and Ben Bernie. He also began some radio work, hired by NBC to be a staff arranger with a young conductor, Al Roth. He also played sax and clarinet in some orchestras, including Les Brown's Band of Renown, where he became a close friend of Brown's. He also got to work with Benny Goodman on his radio program, and (though he was not officially credited) wrote the arrangement of Martha Tilton's recording of "And the Angels Sing" with the Goodman orchestra.

During World War II he went into the United States Marine Corps. In 1944 he began to arrange for the Paul Whiteman orchestra. (According to one source[2], it was Whiteman who, disliking the name "Abe Osser," suggested the name "Glenn." Another source[1] credits the name change to Bud Barry, director of programming at ABC.) Osser rehearsed and conducted Whiteman's orchestra on the NBC Blue Network, which became the ABC Network, and when Whiteman went on ABC television, Osser joined him. Whiteman became music director at ABC and put Osser on as staff, where he served from 1947 to 1969, when staff orchestras were eliminated.

Osser became an arranger/conductor, first for Mercury Records, where he backed such vocalists as Patti Page, Vic Damone, and Georgia Gibbs, and later for Columbia Records, where he backed Doris Day, Jerry Vale, Johnny Mathis and Jill Corey, among others.

On television, he was musical director for the 1949 series Blind Date (also titled Your Big Moment), conductor for the 1953 series The Vaudeville Show, and orchestrator and conductor for the 1957 production of Pinocchio. In 1959, he was the Orchestra leader for the series Music for a Summer Night, which was repeated the following year as Music for a Spring Night.

He wrote a number of songs, usually with his wife, Edna contributing the lyrics.

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