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This is the St. Patrick’s Day edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion and features Irish music. We open with and Irish tune that is the official march of the U.S. First Cavalry Division: “The Gary Owen March.” The tune was the favorite of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, sometimes referred to as General Custer, who was the commander of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment. During one battle in 1874, Col. Custer ordered the 7th Cavalry mounted band to perform the march while leading his soldiers into battle. In 1876, the band members were not present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (also known as Custer’s Last Stand) because their horses were needed as backup mounts for the cavalrymen. The band played the march while standing when the regiment left camp. Ultimately, the band did go to the battle site to recover the wounded and escort them to safety.
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This edition Brass, Reeds, and Percussion with marches by Julius Fucik, best known in the United States for the so-called circus march “Thunder and Blazes,” more accurately entitled “Entry of the Gladiators.” Known as the “Bohemian Sousa,” Fucik has many other compositions to his credit—many just as creative as “Entry of the Gladiators.” Born in what is today called the Czech Republic, Fucik studied bassoon, violin, and drums and took composition lessons from Anton Dvorak. He played the bassoon in an Austro-Hungarian Empire army band and was the bandmaster of at least two army bands. Eventually, he settled in Berlin where he started his own band and music publishing company.
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This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion features original classical wind-band music by Ignace Joseph Pleyel. Pleyel was born in Lower Austria; but eventually made his home in Paris, where he was famous as a composer, music publisher, and piano builder. Pleyel lived from 1757 to 1831, clearly making him a composer of the classical period. But he is not as well known as other composers of this period—like Haydn, who taught him and considered him a good student. After a visit to Italy, Pleyel moved to Strasbourg, France, to serve as an organist at the Strasbourg Cathedral. Eventually, Pleyel moved to Paris and became a music publisher and piano builder in addition to being a composer.
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