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'LAREDO' - Paso Doble
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THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY THE 1969 UNIV. OF ILLINOIS SYMPHONIC BAND, CONDUCTED BY DR. MARK HINDSLEY. COMPOSED BY C. WILLIAMS. DR. HINDSLEY WAS DIRECTOR OF BANDS AT ILLINOIS FROM 1948-1970. HE ALSO TRANSCRIBED SEVERAL MUSICAL MASTERPIECES.
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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.
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Genre
Beats • Reggaeton
Charts
#2,890 in subgenre Peak #42
Charts
Peak #929
Author
C. Williams
Rights
public domain
Uploaded
October 29, 2009
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MP3 5.7 MB • 192 kbps • 4:10
Story behind the song
This is performed by the 1969 University of Illinois Symphonic Band, conducted by Mark Hindsley. Mr. Hindsley also arranged this piece for concert band. Dr. Mark Hindsley Director of Bands and Professor Music, Emeritus University of Illinois A graduate of Indiana University "with high distinction" in 1925, Mark Hindsley served as band director and music instructor at Indiana until 1929. From 1929 to 1934 he was Director of Instrumental Music in the schools of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, conducting the high school bands and orchestras, with first divisions in concert and marching at national band contests. From 1934 to 1948 he was Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Illinois, director of the Marching Illini and conductor of the First Regimental Band, with wind instrument teaching in the School of Music; this period was interrupted by military service from 1942 to 1946, as staff music officer of the Army Air Forces Training Command, and for the last six months band and orchestra conductor and teacher of conducting at the Biarritz American University in France, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel and earning the Army Commendation Medal. Succeeding Albert Austin Harding as Director of Bands at Illinois in 1948, he was active in that position and as Professor of Music until his retirement in 1970. A past president of both the College Band Directors National Association (1947) and the American Bandmasters Association (1957-58), Dr. Mark Hindsley has appeared throughout the nation and in other countries as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator, and on the summer staffs of many other colleges and universities. His recordings of the University of Illinois Concert Band and his transcriptions of historical masterpieces are highly acclaimed at home and abroad. He is the author of seven books and more than 40 magazine articles on instrumental music. He was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Music by his alma mater, Indiana University. Among his many other honors are a Citation of Merit from the University of Illinois Foundation; Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters; the Edwin Franko Goldman award of the American School Band Directors Association; the Outstanding Bandmaster award of Phi Beta Mu; the Distinguished Service to Music medal of Kappa Kappa Psi; election to the Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts, with the "Oscar" of the National Band Association; Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors; Meritorious Service Award of the Illinois Music Educators Association; recipient of the Sudler Medal of the Order of Merit from the John Philip Sousa Foundation; Historic Roll of Honor of High School Bands 1920-1960; profiled as one of the seven legends in Music Education in the 50th Anniversary issue of The Instrumentalist; installed in the Ohio Pioneer Band Director Hall of Fame; and named Honorary Life President of the American Bandmasters Association in 1996. After a forty-five year formal career and several years of "retirement", Dr. Hindsley continued to serve as guest conductor, adjudicator, clinician, writer, and publisher of many of his manuscript transcriptions and his books, HINDSLEY ON BANDS (The Gospel According to Mark) and MY BANDS AND I (A Love Story). In 1993 he transferred the publication and distribution responsibilities of his transcriptions to his son, Robert Hindsley.
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