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Alleluia Laudamus Te
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" The seventies saw an invasion of new music from overseas especially the
States.
" The band toured the USA for three-montýs playing in every State and giving
more than seventy-five performances from Sept to Dec 1970. The band tours
with seventy-four musicians plus Trevor Sharpe, DoM.
" One of the great American composers is Alfred Reed. He is without the master
of writing for the symphonic wind band medium, which was developed
through, is prolific writings for the American college wind bands.
" Alleluia Laudamus Te is an instrumental canticle of praise with the wind band
Winds of Time
being treated either as a single massive choir or as a group of contrasting
choirs, very similar to the full chorus and semi-chorus approaches in choral
music with strong lyrical lines and counter subjects.
" Throughout history the band has proved that music can be a most powerful
political tool, which has the power to unite nations. In the 90s the band were
flown into war torn Sariavo and flown back in a day, the result was worldwide
press and TV coverage.
" In 2001 the band performed the American national anthem outside
Buckingham Palace after the 9-11 tragedy.
41 As part of the bands continuing commissioning programme Peter Graham was
approached to write a piece for the band based on its musical history, the
result is a brilliant piece which starts in the present day and then cascades back
as if travelling through a vortex to 1785.