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The German Band of North Texas audience at the Gilmer Civic Center Saturday night got interesting information about German band music along with a variety of musical treats.
The leader of the concert band, Edward Lobb, described the background of each number, from the opening Procession of the Noble by Rimsky-Korsakov to the Hock Heidecksburg, a Hamburg police band arrangement by Col. Gerhardt Bauman, respected bandman who encouraged Lobb to form the German Band of North Texas.
Part of the Upshur County Arts Council season, the concert introduced some unusual older instruments to the Gilmer audience: the flugelhorn, bass trumpet, Bflat clarinet.
Joe Woodson of Gilmer plays tuba with the band. He brought four of his Mount Pleasant Junior High band members with him to the rehearsal Saturday afternoon, thinking they might play on one number. Instead, they performed so well that the young French horn, clarinet, trumpet and tuba players made music with their elders through the whole concert.
For an audience that clearly wanted to hear some polka music, the band played the Liechtensteiner Polka, with the tubas shining, and the Jaeger (Hunter’s) Polka.
In Muenchen steht eign Hofbrauhaus (In Munich there is a Beerhall), Lobb explained, is the official song of the Munich Oktoberfest.
Beer Barrell Polka, used by Franklin D. Roosevelt as a campaign song when he ran for president in 1932, was originally written as Rosamunde by a Czech composer, Vejvoda, who sold the rights to a German group that changed its name.
Alte Kameraden (Old Comrade) was one of thousands of marches written by Carl Teike, and his most famous.
A classically trained soprano, Ashley Walsh, sang with the band as it played Ich gehuer nur mir (I hear myself) from the musical, Elizabeth.
Showmanship came to the fore when the trumpet line donned black masks as the band played Rossini’s William Tell Overture, best known as the Lone Ranger’s theme song.
Luftwaffe March was written by a English composer, Ross Goodwin, for the movie, Battle of Britain.
Most startling of the musical news Lobb brought concerned Unter dem Doppeladler, written by an Austrian composer, Josef Franz Wagner, but better known here as Under the Double Eagle and considered by most Americans to be one of their own because it was popularized by John Philip Sousa.
The leader of the concert band, Edward Lobb, described the background of each number, from the opening Procession of the Noble by Rimsky-Korsakov to the Hock Heidecksburg, a Hamburg police band arrangement by Col. Gerhardt Bauman, respected bandman who encouraged Lobb to form the German Band of North Texas.
Part of the Upshur County Arts Council season, the concert introduced some unusual older instruments to the Gilmer audience: the flugelhorn, bass trumpet, Bflat clarinet.
Joe Woodson of Gilmer plays tuba with the band. He brought four of his Mount Pleasant Junior High band members with him to the rehearsal Saturday afternoon, thinking they might play on one number. Instead, they performed so well that the young French horn, clarinet, trumpet and tuba players made music with their elders through the whole concert.
For an audience that clearly wanted to hear some polka music, the band played the Liechtensteiner Polka, with the tubas shining, and the Jaeger (Hunter’s) Polka.
In Muenchen steht eign Hofbrauhaus (In Munich there is a Beerhall), Lobb explained, is the official song of the Munich Oktoberfest.
Beer Barrell Polka, used by Franklin D. Roosevelt as a campaign song when he ran for president in 1932, was originally written as Rosamunde by a Czech composer, Vejvoda, who sold the rights to a German group that changed its name.
Alte Kameraden (Old Comrade) was one of thousands of marches written by Carl Teike, and his most famous.
A classically trained soprano, Ashley Walsh, sang with the band as it played Ich gehuer nur mir (I hear myself) from the musical, Elizabeth.
Showmanship came to the fore when the trumpet line donned black masks as the band played Rossini’s William Tell Overture, best known as the Lone Ranger’s theme song.
Luftwaffe March was written by a English composer, Ross Goodwin, for the movie, Battle of Britain.
Most startling of the musical news Lobb brought concerned Unter dem Doppeladler, written by an Austrian composer, Josef Franz Wagner, but better known here as Under the Double Eagle and considered by most Americans to be one of their own because it was popularized by John Philip Sousa.
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