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STEWBALL: FOUR VARIATIONS FOR BAND
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ALSO KNOWN AS 'STEWBALL: VARIATIONS ON AN AMERICAN FOLK TUNE'. THE NAME REFLECTS THE COMPOSITION WELL. IT CONSISTS OF: I-MODERATELY FAST, II-FAST WITH SPIRIT, III-SLOWLY & SMOOTHLY, IV-FAST & BRISKLY. WRITTEN BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GAIL KUBIK IN 1942.
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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.
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Genre
Classical • Classical General
Charts
Peak #57
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Gail Kubik - 1942
Rights
public domain
Uploaded
February 20, 2010
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MP3 18.9 MB • 224 kbps • 11:47
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Gail Kubik (September 5, 1914 - July 20, 1984) was an American composer. At the age of 15 he won a full scholarship to the Eastman School, where he studied the violin with Samuel Belov and composition with Bernard Rogers and Edward Royce. He then continued his compositional studies with Sowerby at the American Conservatory in Chicago (MM, 1935) and with Piston and Boulanger at Harvard University. After serving as staff composer and programme adviser for NBC radio in New York (1940 - 41) and music consultant to the Office of War Information film bureau (1942 - 43), he joined the First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army Air Corps. He remained there until 1946, gaining a reputation as one of the foremost composers for wartime documentaries. His receipt of the Rome Prize in 1950 inaugurated the first of two long periods spent in Europe (1950 - 55, 1959 - 67). From 1970 until his retirement in 1980 he was composer-in-residence at Scripps College in Claremont, California. His awards include two Guggenheim Fellowships (1944, 1965) and the Pulitzer Prize, which, as the youngest recipient to date, he won for his Symphony Concertante in 1952. His Second and Third Symphonies were commissioned respectively by the Louisville Orchestra and the New York PO. Kubik's music, though often dissonant, remains essentially tonal, notable for its rhythmic vitality and virtuosity as well as its fine craftsmanship and orchestration. Equally adept at writing for the concert hall as for broadcast media, he derived many of his concert works from his scores for film, radio and television. For much of his career he was considered a modernist: the trenchant idiom of his music for William Wyler's film The Desperate Hours led the studio, Paramount, to cut much of it and, in an unprecedented gesture, return the music rights to him. In later life, however, he felt ill at ease with changing musical styles, and his attempts to come to terms with the 12-note technique meant that he composed little between 1959 and 1967. His finest work is to be found in his film scores, vocal compositions and chamber music.
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