Recordings

The American Bandmasters Association, founded in 1929, with John Philip Sousa as Honorary Life President, recognizes outstanding achievement on the part of Concert Band conductors and composers. The current membership (invitational) comprises approximately 300 band conductors and composers and 70 Associate Members (music businesses and corporations that provide significant services to bands and to the publication of band music.)

The ABA Commemorative Recording Project began in 2012 as a project of and by the Associate Membership in service to the organization. Special Thanks and Acknowledgements to the team that launched this series:

Leon and Joseph Galison (EF Kalmus Music / Klavier Records), Mark Morette (Mark Custom Recording), Bruce Leek (Mastering Engineer), Loras Schissel (United States Library of Congress), and Jeni Paulson, Paula Crider, Timothy Rhea, Scott Casagrande, Dick Clardy, John Whitwell, Gary Smith, Jim Copenhaver, and Lowell Graham.

The CDs are available from multiple sources, including Klavier. Any profits from the recording will be deposited in the Harris Fund to help defray costs of future ABA conventions.

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Harry Begian Commemorative Recording
KCD-56002 William F. Santelmann ABA Commemorative Recording Series
Ensembles: Cass Technical High School Symphony Band / University of Illinois Symphonic Band.

Contents Include:

HINDEMITH: Symphony in B-flat
GRAINGER: Lincolnshire Posy
REED: Armenian Dances, Part I
WAGNER/BAINUM: Liebestod
SOUSA: The Free Lance March
HANSSEN: Valdres
STRAUSS/CAILLIET: Waltzes from “Der Rosenkavalier”
RESPIGHI/DUKER: The Pines of the Appian Way

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William F. Santelmann Commemorative Recording
KCD-56002 William F. Santelmann ABA Commemorative Recording Series

Contents Include:

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Ray E. Cramer Commemorative Recording
KCD-55045- Ray E. Cramer ABA Commemorative Recording Series
Click here for more information.  Ensembles: Indiana University Wind Ensemble /
Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble. 

Contents include:

DZUBAY: 2 Celebratory Fanfares for 6 Trumpets: No. 1
GILLINGHAM (Arr.): Be Thou My Vision
SOUSA (Arr. Brion): The White Rose March
HUSA: Le couleurs fauves: III. Ritual Dance Masks, Pt. 2
GRAINGER: Near Woodstock Town
GRAINGER (Arr. Bainum): Spoon River
DZUBAY: Fanfares on Re for Ray
GIROUX: One Life Beautiful
EWAZEN: Visions of Light: III. Thunderclouds
WALCZYK: From Glory to Glory
FELD: Divertimento for Wind Ensemble: I. Prelude
FELD: Divertimento for Wind Ensemble: II. Intermezzo
FELD: Divertimento for Wind Ensemble: III. Rondino
SOUSA: The Pathfinder of Panama

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John R. Bourgeois Commemorative Recording
KCD-56004 John R. Bourgeois ABA Commemorative Recording Series
Ensemble: The United States Marine Band.

Contents Include:

D.W. REEVES: Second Connecticut Regiment March
ROBERT JAGER: Esprit De Corps
THOMAS KNOX: Sea Songs
PERCY GRAINGER: Children’s March, “Over the Hills and Far Away”
RICHARD WAGNER: Forest Murmurs
JACQUES OFFENBACH: Galop from “Genevieve De Brabant”
RICHARD STRAUSS: Festmusik Der Stadt Wien
GEORGES HÜE: Fantasie
HECTOR BERLIOZ: Overture to “Les Francs-Juges”
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA: Semper Fidelis

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John Paynter Commemorative Recording
KCD-56001 Harry Begian. ABA Commemorative Recording Series
Ensemble: Northwestern University Wind Ensemble.

Contents Include:

TAILLEFERRE: Overture (Zoulaina)
KING: The Purple Pageant March
ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances
DAHL: Sinfonietta
DELLO JOIO: Variants on a Medieval Tune
PERSICHETTI: Pageant, Op. 59
ARNOLD: Tam O’Shanter Ocerture, Op. 51
BELSTERLING: March of the Steelmen
KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1, Finale
HINDEMITH: Symphony in B-flat

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Frank B. Wickes Commemorative Recording
PrestoMusic.com
Ensemble: Louisiana State University Wind Ensemble.

Contents include:

ZDECHLIK:  Celebrations
BACH: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV564
TIICHELI: Postcard
GRANTHAM: Southern Harmony
BARBER: Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5
GRAINGER: Lincolnshire Posy
DAUGHERTY: Niagara Falls
SOUSA: Sabre and Spurs March