AN HOMAGE TO THE KNIGHTS AND NOBLEMEN OF MEDIEVAL TIMES. THIS STATELY PROCESSIONAL MARCH, AN EXCERPT FROM THE BALLET 'MALDA', IS A SYMPHONIC MASTERPIECE WRITTEN BY NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1892). PERFORMED MY SOPH. YR IN THE TMEA ALL STATE SYMP. BAND
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Story behind the song
This is performed by the TMEA (Texas) All State Symphonic Band. The All State Bands were divided equally into two bands, concert and symphonic. I played B-flat clarinet in the symphonic band.
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions, Capriccio espagnol, Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas.
Rimsky-Korsakov was a prolific composer, and as a perpetual self-critic, he revised all of his orchestral works up to and including his Third Symphony, some, like Antar and Sadko, more than once. These revisions cover the gamut from minor changes of tempo, phrasing and instrumental detail to wholesale transposition and complete recomposition.