Robert Russell Bennett: The Many Moods of Christmas: Suite No. 2: Concert Band:

Deluxe Edition-MusicWorks – Grade 4Score and PartsOne of the band repertoire treasures of all time this uniquely American work by Robert Russell Bennett continues to stand the test of time as it moves triumphantly into itssixth decade! This marvelous new printing features a full score detailing all parts as well as program notes and extensive historical background information. Carefully researched by Dr. Edward Higgins from the original editions many inconsistencies and part errors have also been corrected. This beautifully engraved deluxe edition is destined to become a staple in every band's library of serious works.

Suite No. 1 for Symphonic Band Christmas Concert Series. Par SHAW ROBERT. This all-new setting of Robert Russell Bennett's enchanting Many Moods of Christmas, Suite No. 1 for wind band alone, consists of approximately eight of the original twelve minutes of the original suite for band with chorus. It is the third offering in an ongoing series which will bring all four of these suites to the repertory of band conductors. This arrangement includes Sinfonia (fanfare) and Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Silent Night, Pat-a-pan, concluding with a rousing rendition of O Come, All Ye Faithful. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band

MusicWorks – Grade 4Full ScoreOne of the band repertoire treasures of all time this uniquely American work by Robert Russell Bennett continues to stand the test of time as it moves triumphantly into itssixth decade! This marvelous new printing features a full score detailing all parts as well as program notes and extensive historical bakground information. Carefully researched by Dr. Edward Higgins from the original editions many inconsistencies and part errors have also been corrected. This beautifully engraved deluxe edition is destined to become a staple in every band's library of serious works.

Score-The suggestion that I write my autobiography was made at a time when anyone who did not write one risked being called eccentric. It became and still is a major sport among the oldsters. Some of the contemporary books are goodreading indeed. One of the best of them is the result of an enormous research job as is brought out in the introduction to the work. Imagine spending long hours and traveling many miles to find out about oneself: I am sure Iwould be one of the first to be utterly bored by the subject. It was not so easy however to dismiss the whole idea as my friends presented it.The only answer I could think of with any degree of enthusiasm was this one written purely for whatever pleasure it could give. My own part of the pleasure is mostly in utilizing the musical language of the concert band with its apparently inexhaustible colors and its fabulous vitality.The form(if the term has any right being here) is seven short pictures each about two minutes long of my own personal seven ages. The two-minute idea may be the result of the loudspeakers spread all over the hotel in Arizona where thepiece was composed. There was no getting out of ear-shot of those two-minute gems - in the dining rooms around the swimming pools by the putting green everywhere-but I honestly do not believe any of them crept into what I waswriting. I do not believe I paid much more than passing attention to them.Part One:I. 1894: Cherry StreetII. 1899: South OmahaIII. 1900: Corn Cows and MusicThe three of my seven ages inPart One took us to the legal end of my youth. Gathering up my unspectacular belongings including my entire fortune of less than two hundred dollars I swooped down on New York for no more reason than that it was New York and hada street in it called Broadway. The music borrows two or three rhythms from the era but the only note-for-note quote is what the bugler at Camp Funston played every morning while we put on our shoes. Later when we get to Paris