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Alfred Reed
Biography
Alfred Reed (25 January 1921, Manhattan, N.Y. – 17 September 2005, Miami, Fla.) was an American composer, arranger, conductor and educator.
Born into a family of Austrian descent that cherished music, Alfred Reed began his musical studies at age ten on trumpet, and by high school age he was performing professionally in the Catskills at resort hotels. He served as musician and arrangement during World War II in the 529th Army Air Force Band, for which he created more than 100 works, and following the war was a student of Vittorio Giannini at Juilliard.
He was staff composer and arranger for both the National Broadcasting Corporation and the American Broadcating Corporation. In 1953, Mr. Reed became conductor of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, at the same time completing his academic work; he received his B.M. in 1955 and his M.M. in 1956. His Masters thesis was the Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra, which later was to win the Luria Prize. It received its first performance in 1959, and was subsequently published in 1966. During his two years at Baylor, he also became interested in the problems of educational music at all levels, especially in the development of repertoire materials for school bands, orchestras, and choruses. This led, in 1955, to his accepting the post of editor at Hansen Publishing in New York.
In 1966 he left this post to join the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Miami, holding a joint appointment in the Theory-Composition and Music Education departments, and to develop the unique (at the time) Music Industry degree program at that institution, of which he became director.
With over 250 published works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, chorus, and various smaller chamber music groups, many of which have been on the required performance lists in this country for the past 20 years, Mr. Reed was one of the nation’s most prolific and frequently performed composers.
His work as a guest conductor and clinician took him to 49 states, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia and South America, and for many years, at least eight of his works have been on the required list of music for all concert bands in Japan, where he was the most frequently performed foreign composer today. He left New York for Miami, Florida, in 1960, where he made his home until his death.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
- Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)
All Wind Works
- Acclamation!
- Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973)
- Arioso (as arranger) (1729/1998)
- Armenian Dances (1972-1978)
- Armenian Dances, Part One (1972)
- Armenian Dances, Part Two (1978)
- Autumn Leaves (as arranger) (1947/2017)
- Ballade (1956/1999)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Suite (as arranger) (1965)
- Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as editor; arr. McAlister) (1910/2005)
- Canto e Camdombe
- Carmen (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1875/2000)
- A Celebration Fanfare (1989)
- Ceremony of Flourishes (1964)
- Chanson Triste (1989)
- Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with McAlister; tr. Rogan) (1892/2001)
- A Christmas Suite (1974)
- Chorale Prelude in E minor (1953/1966)
- A Christmas Celebration (1987)
- A Christmas Intrada (1980)
- Clear Track Polka (2000)
- Come, Sweet Death (as arranger) (1736/1976)
- Come, Sweet Death (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
- Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (1995/1997)
- Curtain Up! (1991)
- Dance of the Hours (as editor; tr. Kennedy) (1876/)
- Danza Caribe (1986)
- Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (as arranger) (1653/1724/1990)
- Divertimento for Flute and Concert Band (1998)
- Double Wind Quintet (1975)
- El Camino Real (1985)
- El Camino Real (arr. Longfield) (1985/2013)
- The Enchanted Island (1980)
- The Entertainer (as arranger) (1902/1974)
- Evolutions (1993)
- Exhortation and Praise (2003)
- Fanfare and Processional (2005)
- The Fantasticks (as arranger) (1966)
- Fantasy on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (as arranger) (1973)
- A Festival Prelude (1962)
- A Festive Overture (1963)
- Fifth Suite for Band (1995)
- Fifth Symphony (1995)
- Finlandia (as editor) (1900/2004)
- First Suite for Band (1975)
- Five Dances for Five Clarinets and Band
- Forget Me Not, O Lord (as arranger) (c. 1736/1985)
- Fourth Suite for Band (1994)
- Fourth Symphony (1992)
- Funiculi Funicula (as arranger) (1880/1994)
- Giligia (2000)
- Golden Eagle March. See: March Golden Eagle
- The Golden Year (1997)
- Greensleeves (1993/2011)
- Gypsy Dance (as arranger) (1872/1997)
- Huldigungsmarsch (as editor) (1864/2002)
- Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962)
- Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger) (1963/1965)
- The Hounds of Spring (1981)
- Hymn Variants (1992)
- I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber; ed. Rogers) (1954/1963)
- Imperatrix (1972)
- In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger) (1970)
- Intrada Drammatica (1968/1992)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (1723/1981)
- Jidai (2001)
- Joyeux Noël (Brass Ensemble) (1998)
- Joyeux Noël (Wind Ensemble) (1998/2001/2002)
- A Jubilant Overture (1970)
- A Jubilant Overture (arr. Conaway) (1970/2011)
- The King of Love My Shepherd Is (1995)
- L’Arlésienne Suite No 2 (as editor, with McAlister) (1872/2002)
- Light Cavalry Overture (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1866/2003)
- A Little Concert Suite (1984)
- Mancini! (as arranger) (1965)
- March Golden Eagle (1989/1995)
- March Grandioso (as arranger) (1901/1969)
- Mary Poppins (as arranger) (1964/2006)
- Millennium III (1999)
- Mr. Music (1990)
- Music for Hamlet (1973/2018)
- The Music-Makers (1968)
- The Music Man: Highlights (as arranger) (1957/1959)
- My Heart Is Filled With Longing (as arranger) (c. 1710/1986)
- Nimrod (as arranger) (1899/1965)
- Nocturne (as arranger) (1886/1953/1975)
- A Northern Legend (1972)
- Ode for Trumpet (1956)
- Othello (1977)
- Our Father Who Art in Heaven (as arranger) (1710/1988)
- Passacaglia (1967)
- Pavane for a Dead Princess (as orchestrator; ed. McAlister) (1899/1988)
- Piccolo Concerto in C major (as arranger) (1728-29/1962/1969)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (as arranger) (1845/1991)
- The Pledge of Allegiance (1970)
- Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
- Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 2 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
- Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 3 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
- Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 4 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
- Praise Jerusalem! (1986)
- Prelude (as arranger)
- Prelude IV (as arranger) (1722/1983)
- Prelude and Capriccio (1978)
- Presentation of the Silver Rose (as arranger) (1910/1988)
- Pro Texana (1984)
- Punchinello (1974)
- Radetzky March (as arranger) (1993)
- Rahoon (1965)
- The Ramparts of Courage (1995)
- Rosalind in the Forest of Arden (2005)
- Rushmore (1981)
- Russian Christmas Music (1944)
- Russian Christmas Music (arr. Curnow) (1944/1990)
- Seascape: A Dramatic Intermezzo (1962)
- Second Century (1986)
- Second Suite for Band (1980)
- Second Symphony (1979)
- Serenade (1966)
- Seventh Suite for Band (2002)
- The Severn Suite (as arranger) (1973)
- Siciliana Notturno (1977)
- Silver Shadow
- Sine Nomine (as arranger) (1906/1976)
- Sixth Suite for Band
- Slavonic Folk Suite (1953)
- Song of Threnos (1964)
- A Springtime Celebration (1991)
- The Strenuous Life (as arranger) (1902/1974)
- Sumus Futuro (1999)
- Symphonic Prelude (1963)
- Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1952/1967)
- Symphony No. 1. See: Symphony for Brass and Percussion
- Symphony No. 2. See: Second Symphony
- Symphony No. 3 (1988)
- Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner (1882/1988)
- Symphony No. 4. See: Fourth Symphony
- Symphony No. 5. See: Fifth Symphony
- Tannhäuser Grand March (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1847/2005)
- Tarantella (1996)
- Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" (as arranger) (1963)
- Third Suite For Band (1982)
- Third Symphony. See: Symphony No. 3
- Three Chorales (as arranger; ed. McAlister) (?/2013)
- Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra (1984)
- Thunder and Lightning (1999)
- The Tsar's Farewell (as arranger) (2001)
- Twelfth Night (2003)
- Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)
- Two Bagatelles (1983/1995)
- Two Bagatelles for Concert Band (1983/1997)
- Two Bagatelles for Four Trombones (1983)
- Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner. See: Symphony No. 3
- Victory! (2005)
- Vilia (as arranger) (1905/1990)
- Viva Musica! (1984)
- With Trumpets And Drums (1992)
References
- Alfred Reed, Wikipedia Accessed 14 September 2017
- Belser, Robert. "The Hounds of Spring." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 567-573. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.
- Composer Page at Hal Leonard Music
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. (2010). Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 1. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 803.
- Waltman, David. (2003). "Alfred Reed." In: A Composer's Insight, Volume 1. Galesville, Md.: Meredith Music Publications. pp. 119–130.