Dorian Recordings
DOR-93201
A Musical Menagerie From America's Golden Age
The New Columbian Brass Band
George Foreman, Conductor
From Personal Reflections on the Music by George Foreman.Almost everyone loves animals. … Not surprisingly, composers have given us numerous musical depictions of animals. During the last decades of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th, the era known as the the "Golden Age of American Bands," dozens of animal related band pieces appeared. A few choice selections from that musical menagerie make up this recording. Included are several familiar pieces as well as some rediscovered gems. Our great-grandparents might have tapped their toes to any of them at a Sunday afternoon band concert in the park. I think they still retain all of their appeal today.
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[1.] The Teddy Bears Picnic (Characteristic Novelty, 1907) - John W. Bratton [2.] A Morning in Noah's Ark (Humorous Fantasy in Four Scenes ca.1900) - Thomas H. Rollinson [3.] The Two Little Bulfinches (Cornet Duo, 1908) - Henri Kling [4.] The Magpie and the Parrot (Humoresque, 1906) - Theodore Bendix [5.] The Whistler and His Dog (Caprice, 1905) - Arthur Pryor [6.] Chicken Reel (1910) - Joseph M. Daly [7.] Elephantine Polka (Tuba Solo, 1903) - L. P. Laurendeau [8.] In Bugdom (An Insect Episode, 1908) - Paul Eno [9.] The Glow-Worm (Idyl, 1902) - Paul Lincke [10.] Porcupine Rag (Two-Step, 1910) - Charles L. Johnson [11.] Turkey in the Straw (Humoresque for Clarinet, 1908) - Herman Bellstedt, Jr. [12.] Parade of the Doodle-Bugs (March Characteristic, 1909) - Fred L. Moreland [13.] Somewhere a Cow is Bawling (Trombone Symfunny, 1921) - Jim Fisk [C. L. Barnhouse] [14.] Kitten on the Keys (Xylophone Solo, 1921) - Zez Confrey [15.] Tiger Rag (1918) - Original Dixieland Jazz Band Total Program Length: 60:42 |
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