Metropolitan Museum of Art Brass Ensemble (1970)
Metropolitan Museum Of Art – AKS 10001
Frederik Prausnitz, conductor
Program
Anniversary Fanfare ~ William Schuman
Shivaree ~ Leonard Bernstein
Ceremonial Fanfare ~ Aaron Copland
Metropolitan Museum Fanfare ~ Virgil Thomson
Ceremonial Fanfare ~ Walter Piston
Personnel
Theodore Weis, trumpet
Ronald Anderson, trumpet
Allan Dean, trumpet
Robert Weber, trumpet
James Stubbs, trumpet
Murray Karpilovsky, trumpet
Claude Fontanella, trumpet
Peter Crisp, trumpet
Robert Harley, trumpet
Paul Ingraham, horn
Kathleen Wilber, horn
Edward Birdwell, horn
Earl Chapin, horn
Albert Richmond, horn
Ray Alonge, horn
Frank Dona, horn
Barry Benjamin, horn
David Uber, trombone
John Swallow, trombone
George Michelmore, trombone
Harvey Phillips, tuba
Arnold Goldberg, timpani
Howard Hirsch, timpani
Ronald Gould, percussion
Joseph Volpe, percussion
Wally Deyerle, percussion
Louis Gotti, percussion
Robert Bush, percussion
notes
Thomas P.F. Hoving, Director of the Museum, asked the distinguished composer William Schuman to compose a special work to celebrate the Museum’s 100th birthday. In accepting the commission Mr. Schuman suggested that there not be one special work but five different works to greet the opening of each exhibition. On behalf of the Museum, Mr. Schuman then asked four other prominent American composers to write fanfares for the Museum’s Centennial. The composers were Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Virgil Thomson.