Chief of Staff March
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General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 3:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Robert Thurston
Cost: Score and Parts – Contact composer
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Written by former USAF Band composer and arranger, Senior Master Sgt. (retired) Bob Thurston, this march has quite an interesting back story. Thurston states:
“I wanted to write a military march in the Hollywood tradition of great marches like Jerry Goldsmith’s “Patton,” or John Williams’ “Midway March.” I came up with the melody while walking from the U.S. Capitol to the nearest Metro station. I didn’t have a pencil and paper with me (very uncharacteristic of me!) -- but I did have my cell phone, so I texted the melody to myself using letters for note names and dashes for eighth-note place holders. The text version was in the key of C (easiest for punching out the note names with my thumbs), but I found that F worked better once I started scoring it. Otherwise, by the time I finished the march a couple of weeks later, the melody was virtually unchanged from the tune I texted to myself."
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- American Legion Band of the Tonawandas (Tonawanda, N.Y.) (Michael Shaw, conductor) - 7 November 2021
- United State Air Force Band (Washington, D.C.) (Don Schofield, conductor) – 9 August 2020
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across the Clouds (2005)
- Ascendance (1998/2002)
- Assurance (2019)
- Atlantic Rhapsody (2020)
- Chief of Staff March (2010)
- Departures (2014)
- Dreidel Dance (2006/2017)
- Fantasia for a King (as arranger) (1998/2002)
- Festive Dances (2000/2001)
- The Flight of the Falcon (2003)
- Frontier (1990/2005)
- Gates of Freedom (2001)
- The Heart of a Mustang (2017)
- Here We Come A-Wassailing (as arranger) (2007)
- Hiding in the Shadows (2020)
- The Midday Blues (2017)
- Mischief (2019)
- Ningabii’anose
- Red Hills Saga (2017)
- Salute (2019)
- Simple Gifts (as arranger) (2017)
- Songs of the West (2003)
- Time Travels (2012)
- Tower of Inspiration (2019)
- Uprising (2003)
Resources
- Robert Thurston website Accessed 7 November 2021