Austin Symphonic Band Performing Lift Up Your Heads

Опубликовано: 26 Июль 2024
на канале: Austin Symphonic Band
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Austin Symphonic Band ( https://austinsymphonicband.org/ ). July 25, 2024. ASB performing Lift Up Your Heads by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (arr. Shiree X. Williams). [NOTE: Click 'more' to read the program notes.] Music Director Dr. Kyle R. Glaser conducting. "Community in Concert" presented at the 2024 Texas Bandmasters Association Convention/Clinic, Lila Cockrell Theatre, San Antonio, TX.

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Video and Sound Production: Eddie Jennings

From the program notes written by David Cross:

Lift Up Your Heads (1892, this arrangement 2022)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Transcribed by Shiree X. Williams

After studying composition at the Royal College of Music in England, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was soon championed by Sir Edward Elgar. This led to three tours of the United States and associations with W.E.B. Du Bois, Laurence Dunbar and the U.S. Marine Band. His thriving career was cut short at the age of 37 when he succumbed to pneumonia.

Lift Up Your Heads is based on Psalm 24, which reads:

Lift up your heads, you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.

Listen for:
• A flowing chorale in 3/4, with harmonization typical of the period.
• Theme first provided by low brass, then saxophones, and finally full ensemble.
• Lyrical solos by euphonium and oboe.