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This is the St. Patrick’s Day edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion and features Irish music. We open with and Irish tune that is the official march of the U.S. First Cavalry Division: \“The Gary Owen March.\” The tune was the favorite of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, sometimes referred to as General Custer, who was the commander of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment. During one battle in 1874, Col. Custer ordered the 7th Cavalry mounted band to perform the march while leading his soldiers into battle. In 1876, the band members were not present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (also known as Custer’s Last Stand) because their horses were needed as backup mounts for the cavalrymen. The band played the march while standing when the regiment left camp. Ultimately, the band did go to the battle site to recover the wounded and escort them to safety. ....
This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion features holiday music, especially klezmer in recognition of Hanukkah, which starts December 7 and ends December 15. We’ll begin with an Advent hymn and then a medley of Christams tunes. But most of the show will be klezmer, the traditional instrumental music of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. Klezmer includes traditional dance tunes and ritual melodies, all enhanced by improvisation. In addition to Jewish religious music, it incorporates music from the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Romania, Germany, and the Slavic communities. Elements of Klezmer have been adopted into Dixieland, big band music, popular music, and jazz. ....
In preparing for the Veterans Day edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion, I wanted to air one of the most popular songs of the WW II period to salute our veterans: \“The St. Louis Blues March.\” But I also wanted to make sure you heard what the original version of the \“St. Louis Blues\”sounded like. So we aired a 1922 version, with W. C. Handy himself playing the cornet. Today, we are going to air a version of the same arrangement made with modern recording equipment and contemporary musicians by the W. C. Handy Beale Street Reenactment Band of Memphis. And yes, the 1922 arrangement uses a tango rhythm. Handy used the tango rhythm in hopes of making his recording more successful. And to demonsrate that the \“St. Louis Blues\” is truly one of the most recorded tunes, we are also going to hear Pete Fountain’s version of the same composition. ....
Mysterious and macabre and reflective of mortality that’s the type of music for this edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion because it’s the Halloween edition.In 1936, before a concert to be broadcast on radio, Artie Shaw needed a theme tune. Theme tunes were important because they helped to indentify a big band. In short, having a theme tune was part of big-band marketing. Many big bands simply chose a song from Tin Pan Alley, but Shaw decided to write his own and to make it truly unique and therefore vastly more memorable. The name of the tune is \“Nightmare\” and its unique sound is a great way to begin the Halloween edition. This theme tune became a hit in its own right in 1938. ....
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