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ROLLING THUNDER
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'ROLLING THUNDER' IS AN EXCITING CIRCUS MARCH, ALSO KNOWN AS A 'SCREAMER', COMPOSED BY THE PROLIFIC COMPOSER, HENRY FILLMORE IN 1916. IT INCLUDES A FAST AND EXTREMELY TECHNICAL TROMBONE PART. PERFORMED BY THE TMEA ALL STATE SYMPHONIC BAND.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
Song Info
Genre
Classical Ensembles
Charts
Peak #1,258
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Henry Fillmore - 1916
Rights
public domain
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October 26, 2009
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MP3 2.5 MB 192 kbps 1:51
Story behind the song
This is performed by the 1977 TMEA (Texas) All State Symphonic Band. The conductor was Col. Arnold D. Gabriel. Rolling Thunder is a screamer composed by Henry Fillmore in 1916. It includes a fast and extremely technical trombone part. It has a fast and furious tempo and is performed as openers and encores of concerts. It is a great circus march, as breathtaking in its excitement as the action feats in the center ring. Henry Fillmore (3 December 1881 ? 7 December 1956) was an American musician, composer, and publisher. A prolific composer, Fillmore wrote over 250 tunes and arranged orchestrations for hundreds more; he also published a great number of tunes under various pseudonyms. While best known for march music and screamers, he also wrote waltzes, foxtrots, hymns, novelty numbers, overtures and waltzes. Henry Fillmore's career spanned half a century and he seems to set the record for writing and arranging band music. It isn't a matter of quantity over quality either, since his compositions have become warhorse numbers for marching bands and big bands alike. Like a darts player who tosses a whole fistful of the little arrows at the target hoping to hit one bull's eye, Fillmore kept up a steady stream of new band music under several composer's names. Harold Bennett? No such guy?that was Fillmore?and a clue that it would be one of his easier tunes for musicians to execute since that was supposedly a Bennett speciality. For something slightly harder, there were the composers Will Huff and Al Hayes, or rather there weren't those composers since both were pseudonyms for Fillmore. If that wasn't filling enough music stands, he would Fillmore with even more demanding compositions by Gus Beans?now there's a good pseudonym?Ray Hall, and Harry Hartley. Always a strong supporter of female musicians, Fillmore also pretended to be a lady composer named Henrietta Hall, although no evidence has been found that he might have also dressed the part. He also published a series of arrangements under the Hartley name. All told, it is estimated that there are some 250 original compositions and approximately 750 arrangements for band that were the work of this man. Over his life span, this averages out to some two pieces completed per month, quite a feat since Fillmore did all of his own work, including the copying. One of the names most associated with the golden age of concert, parade, and military bands, he wrote hymns, fox-trots, waltzes, marches, overtures, and arranged several classical compositions. The latter area was one of his great specialities. He would arrange works by well-known classical composers into a simple, playable reduction emphasizing melodic structure that could be performed with only a small amount of rehearsal time. Many other concert band arrangers and composers have picked up on this practice, some creating entire careers from it.
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