BLUE LAKE OVERTURE

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THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO THE BLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP IN TWIN LAKE, MICHIGAN. IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE LATE JOHN BARNES CHANCE IN 1971. ONE YEAR LATER, MR. CHANCE WAS TRAGICALLY ELECTROCUTED. PERFORMED BY THE 1977 NORTH DAKOTA ST. UNIV. GOLD STAR BAND.

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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

Charts

Peak #58

Peak in subgenre #12

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

October 19, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 6.5 MB • 189 kbps • 4:47

Story behind the song

Written in 1971 and dedicated to the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp of Twin Lake, Michigan.
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, a summer school of the arts located on a 1,300 acre campus in Michiganâ€™s Manistee National Forest, offers fine arts education for all ages. Each summer, the principal camp program annually serves more than 5,300 gifted elementary, junior high, and high school students with diverse programs in music, art, dance, and drama while offering more than 175 performances during its Summer Arts Festival. Blue Lake also operates a widely acclaimed International Exchange Program and two public radio stations. Since its inception in 1966, Blue Lake has provided cultural enrichment to more than 300,000 gifted students and countless concert-goers.
John Barnes Chance (November 20, 1932â€“August 16, 1972) was a composer, born in Beaumont, Texas. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture. Many of his works are written for young musicians, particularly those written between 1960 and 1962, when he was composer-in-residence in the Greensboro, North Carolina public school system--specifically at Greensboro Senior High School (now Grimsley Senior High School) under the supervision of Herbert Hazelman--as part of the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project.
Before he became a full-time composer, Chance played timpani with the Austin Symphony and later was an arranger for the Fourth and Eighth U.S. Army bands. Chance taught at the University of Kentucky from 1966 until his death in 1972. On August 16th, Chance was airing a tent in his garden when a metal pole contacted an electrified fence used to confine his dogs. Chance was accidentally electrocuted and died at 12:40pm at Central Baptist Hospital from cardiac arrest. He and his wife Linda had two children.

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chappy0952

Nov 12, 2011

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