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Grand Fanfare
Subtitle: For Wind Band, Timpani and Percussion
This work bears the designation Opus 7a.
General Info
Year: 2004
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Brass ensemble
Publisher: Editions BIM
Cost: Score and Parts - $35.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone I-II
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Tuba
String Bass (optional)
Violincello (optional)
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Crash Cymbals
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Grand Fanfare by the Venezualan Giancarlo Castro D'Addona (as a trumpet player himself a child of El Sistema) is not a representative piece chiseled in marble but a highly syncopated "wake-up piece" with a rebellious middle section full of changing meters, an atmospheric hymn and furious close.
- Program Note from liner notes from CD Mambos y Fanfarria!
Grand Fanfare (2004) is an exciting and virtuosic showpiece written for the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble, part of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. The piece opens with a fanfare and move quickly to an energetic melody. The middle section is a beautiful melody passing through the tenor saxophones and euphoniums. The piece concludes with a return to the opening melody at a quicker tempo.
- Program Note from University of North Texas Symphony Band concert program, 22 September 2016
Media
- Audio: Banda Sinfonica Juvenil Simon Bolivar (Thomas Clamor)
- Audio CD: Banda Sinfonica Juvenil Simon Bolivar (Thomas Clamor, conductor) - 2013
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Oregon State University (Corvallis) Wind Ensemble (Erik Kar Jun Leung, conductor) - 15 November 2022
- State University of New York, Fredonia, Wind Orchestra (Donna Dolson, conductor) - 9 November 2022
- Appalachian State University (Boone, N.C.) Wind Ensemble (Régulo Stabilito, conductor) - 21 April 2022
- State University of New York, Fredonia, Wind Symphony (Donna Dolson, conductor) – 3 October 2019
- Metropolitan Wind Symphony (Lexington, Mass). (Louis J. Buckley, conductor) – 4 March 2018
- Duke (Durham, N.C.) Wind Symphony (Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor) – 24 February 2018
- University of North Texas (Denton) Symphony Band (Dennis W. Fisher, conductor) - 22 September 2016
- Atlanta (Ga.) Youth Wind Symphony (Scott A. Stewart, conductor) – 17 May 2016
- University of South Florida (Tampa) Wind Ensemble (John Carmichael, conductor) – 19 February 2016 (CBDNA 2016 Southern Division Conference, Charleston, S.C.)
- Ohlone Wind Orchestra (Fremont, Calif.) (Tony Clements, conductor) – 14 July 2015 – WASBE Conference, San Jose, Calif.
- University of North Texas Wind Symphony (Christopher G. White, conductor) - 30 April 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Arrival of a Noble Maestro (2004)
- Euphantasy
- Grand Fanfare (2004)
- Rhapsody for Talents (2013)
- Stories of a Legend
Resources
- Castro, G. (2004). Grand Fanfare: For Wind Band Timpani and Percussion [score]. Editions BIM: Vuarmarens, Swit.
- Hauta, Nolan. "Grand Fanfare, Op. 7." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 898-906. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.
- The Horizon Leans Forward…, compiled and edited by Erik Kar Jun Leung, GIA Publications, 2021, p. 306.