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On Wings Of Lightning Vol. 3

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Composer
SOUSA
Artist
Keith, Brion
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 01, 1999
Catalog #
8559029
UPC
636943902929

About

This recording celebrates Sousa's important early associations with dance and the music theatre. Picture a young John Philip Sousa, a tiny young man aged eleven, confidently standing in front of a group of much older musicians, playing his violin in the style of the famous Strauss and leading his own popular dance orchestra as Washington's society swirls and dances in front of him. It is impossible to overestimate the effect this interaction of the young man, his orchestra and the dancers was to have on the later Sousa -the composer to be. He was once quoted as saying, "I want my marches to make a man with a wooden leg stand up and dance." The dance never left him. Dancing rhythms for ever permeated his compositions, marches and dances alike. A young Dance Prince begat the March King. Soon also, his musical activities brought him to the theatre, where he began to experience the close and often raucous give and take of audience and performer that constituted the popular side of nineteenth century American theatre and early vaudeville. By the age of 21 he was the leader, arranger and concert master of the orchestra at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Later he led the Chestnut Street Theatre Orchestra in Philadelphia. Once again the magical chemistry of music and rhythm, as it reaches for audiences, became central to the composer's thinking. While many of the dances found here stem from this early period of Sousa's life, these initial encounters with the infectiousness of music and how it infuses dancers and listeners never left him. Throughout his long and sparkling career he continued to write music for each new craze: waltzes, gallops, two-steps, gavottes, tangos, cakewalks, rags, polkas, marches of course, and sometimes even a foxtrot or two.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 March: The Gladiator 02:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    March: The Gladiator
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
    Ensemble
    Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Keith Brion
  2. 2 Tango: The Gliding Girl 03:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    Tango: The Gliding Girl
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
    Ensemble
    Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Keith Brion
  3. 3 March: The Federal 02:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    March: The Federal
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  4. 4 The Presidential Polonaise 01:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    The Presidential Polonaise
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  5. 5 The Irish Dragoon: Circus Galop 01:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    The Irish Dragoon: Circus Galop
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  6. 6 Sandalphon Waltzes 08:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    Sandalphon Waltzes
    Duration
    08:51
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  7. 7 March: The Belle of Chicago 02:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    March: The Belle of Chicago
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  8. 8 Silver Spray Schottische 02:28
    Track
    8
    Title
    Silver Spray Schottische
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  9. 9 Foxtrot: Peaches and Cream 03:42
    Track
    9
    Title
    Foxtrot: Peaches and Cream
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  10. 10 Myrrha Gavotte 04:57
    Track
    10
    Title
    Myrrha Gavotte
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  11. 11 March: The Fairest of the Fair 03:25
    Track
    11
    Title
    March: The Fairest of the Fair
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  12. 12 Caprice: The Coquette 02:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    Caprice: The Coquette
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  13. 13 Galop: On Wings of Lightning 02:03
    Track
    13
    Title
    Galop: On Wings of Lightning
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
    Ensemble
    Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Keith Brion
  14. 14 Grand March: The King of France 04:14
    Track
    14
    Title
    Grand March: The King of France
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  15. 15 Reverie: I, Too, Was Born in Arcadia 04:48
    Track
    15
    Title
    Reverie: I, Too, Was Born in Arcadia
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  16. 16 Cakewalk: In Africa 03:00
    Track
    16
    Title
    Cakewalk: In Africa
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
  17. 17 March: Venus 01:55
    Track
    17
    Title
    March: Venus
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa
    Ensemble
    Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Keith Brion
  18. 18 March: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty 02:20
    Track
    18
    Title
    March: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    John Philip Sousa