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Keith Brion
Biography
Keith Brion (b. 9 July 1933, Philipsburg, Penn.) is an American conductor and arranger.
Mr. Brion studied music education at West Chester State University and piccolo with John C. Krell, then taught in New Jersey schools while studying for a master's degree at Rutgers University. He played piccolo with the New Jersey Symphony, and founded the North Jersey Wind Symphony, of which he was music director.
Mr. Brion is best known as the music director of his own New Sousa Band, begun in 1979 and a realization of Mr. Brion’s dream to reincarnate the Sousa Band and once again tour America’s towns and cities. Mr. Brion impersonates Sousa in these concerts.
He has been a frequent guest conductor of professional bands, among which are the Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra, New York City’s Goldman Band, The California Wind Orchestra, and the Allentown Band. He has also appeared with most of the major service bands, including the U.S. Marine Band, Army Field Band, Army Band, Coast Guard Band, and the U.S. Army Band of Europe in Heidelberg, plus the National Music Camp at Interlochen.
In addition to leading the New Sousa Band, Mr. Brion maintains an active career as an orchestra conductor, presenting his popular Sousa revival concerts with almost all of America’s symphony orchestras, including the Boston Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St. Louis, Dallas, and Milwaukee symphonies. His overseas orchestral engagements have included the London Concert Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony.
Keith Brion is a former director of bands at Yale University, where he led the Yale Band in concerts at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and in an all-Ives program at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Prior to coming to Yale, he was the founder and music director of the North Jersey Wind Symphony and a long-time band educator and music supervisor in the New Jersey public schools.
He has published many editions for band, including the music of Charles Ives, Percy Aldridge Grainger, John Philip Sousa, and D.W. Reeves, and is the author of numerous articles. He has published a series of Sousa publications.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (as editor with Brand; arr. Grainger) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
All Wind Works
- Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (as arranger) (1924/2020)
- The Charlatan (as editor) (1898/2017)
- Country Gardens (as editor with Schissel; arr. Sousa) (1923/1999)
- El Captain (as arranger with Schissel) (1896/1999)
- The Flashing Eyes of Andalusia (as arranger) (1920/2014)
- The Free Lance March (as arranger with Schissel) (1906/1998)
- Fugue on Yankee Doodle (as arranger with Schissel) (/1996)
- The Gladiator March (as arranger) (1886/2015)
- Handel in the Strand (as arranger with Schissel) (1912/2001)
- Hands Across the Sea (as arranger with Schissel) (1899/1997)
- Humoresque on Swanee by George Gershwin (as arranger) (1920/1928/2003)
- The Invincible Eagle (as arranger with Schissel) (1901/1995)
- I've Made My Plans for the Summer (as arranger with Schissel) (1907/1997)
- Keeping Step with the Union (as arranger)(1921/2012)
- King Cotton (as arranger with Schissel) (1895/2000)
- The Liberty Bell (as arranger with Schissel) (1893/2001)
- Liberty Loan (as arranger) (1917/2015)
- Manhattan Beach March (as adapter with Schissel) (1893/1996)
- Marching Song of Democracy (as arranger) (1917/1991)
- The National Game (as arranger) (1925/2005)
- New York Hippodrome (as arranger) (1915/2014)
- O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (as editor with Brand; arr. Grainger) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
- The Pathfinder of Panama (as arranger) (1915/2016)
- The Pride of Pittsburgh (as arranger) (1901/2014)
- Prelude in the Dorian Mode (as editor with Brand; scored Grainger) (c. 1550/1937-1941)
- The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock (as arranger) (1901/2004)
- Sabre and Spurs (as arranger with Schissel) (1918/1999)
- Semper Fidelis (as arranger with Schissel) (1888/1995)
- Songs of Grace and Songs of Glory (as arranger with Schissel) (1995)
- Sound Off (as arranger) (1885/2014)
- The Stars and Stripes Forever (as arranger with Schissel) (1896/1996)
- Sulla Tomba di Garibaldi (as editor with Townsend) (1882/197-?)
- The Thunderer (as arranger with Schissel) (1889/1998)
- Variations on "Jerusalem the Golden" (as transcriber) (1900/1974)
- The Washington Post (as arranger with Schissel) (1889/1997)
- When the Boys Come Sailing Home! (as arranger) (1918/2014)
- The White Rose (as arranger with Schissel) (1917/2003)
- Willow Blossoms (as arranger with Schissel) (1916/1995)
- Yankee Doodle: Fantasy Humoresque (1975)