Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band - The Gilded Age - Late 19th Century Music for American Wind Band (Period Instruments) (2021)
BAND/ARTIST: Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band
- Title: The Gilded Age - Late 19th Century Music for American Wind Band (Period Instruments)
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: MSR Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:18:46
- Total Size: 332 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Salute to New York March
02. Yankee Tickle Medley
03. Fantasia on La Sonnambula
04. Overture to Nabucodonosor
05. Mañana Chilean Dance
06. Jolly Bears-Polka Humoristic
07. Through the Air
08. Semper Fidelis
09. Serenade on Good Night Beloved
10. The Battle Cry of Freedom
11. I Am Up-Quickstep
12. L’Estudiantina Waltz
13. Attila: Terzetto and Finale
The term “Gilded Age” (c. 1870-1890) conjures up images of American opulence and dynamism. It was also a period of great social and financial inequality and conflicting ideas about the role and reach of capitalism. Newly developed industries attracted thousands upon thousands of individuals and families from the uncertain life of farm work to the factories of the major cities, their numbers increased by immigrants escaping crushing poverty and political chaos in parts of Europe. A small number of businessmen became magnificently rich, but little of that saw its way to the workers. As a counter to this, the people’s representatives passed laws to curb some of these excesses, helping to pave the way for the Progressive Era that followed.
The years 1870–1890 saw innovations that made Americans’ lives somewhat easier. Gas lighting, indoor plumbing, railroads, and mass production of goods and materials created a booming economy. At the same time, mass immigration spurred nativist reactions, workers felt compelled to band into labor unions, and the drive to settle the Great Plains and the West resulted in further loss of territory and dignity for the indigenous peoples living there. This period of American history also saw a flowering of the arts in the United States. While this included the budding of a uniquely American artistic voice, German immigrants continued to dominate American music both in the concert hall and in the domestic parlor. For native musicians, however, popular music now benefitted from the development of an ecosystem of publishers, music stores and instrument makers, providing an outlet for a distinctively American musical landscape. For many Americans, the latest popular songs were brought to them by wind bands.
Following the American Civil War (1861–65), thousands of well-practiced, former military bandsmen formed or joined bands in their hometowns. Bands were considered essential organizations for any respectable Victorian-era town or city, and many locales had a number of ensembles. The popular town bands were augmented by visiting professional ensembles and bands associated with local fire stations, police precincts, mines and factories.
The explosion in band membership benefitted from the development of factory-produced instruments in Austria and France, along with their American import partners such as Lyon and Healy, Bruno and Son, Wurlitzer, Jenkins, and J. W. Pepper. In addition to instruments, American publishers began supplying inexpensive wind-band arrangements of popular songs, ethnic medleys, dances, marches, and more ambitious transcriptions of orchestral and operatic music in large number. This was truly the beginning of the Golden Age of band music in America.
Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band dedicates this recording to Don Johnson, Jr., who passed away suddenly in 2016. He was a dear friend of the band and father to our cornet soloist, Don Johnson III. Don was a wonderful cornetist and an avid collector of J. W. Pepper brass instruments. He had a great passion for the trumpet and historical performance and established and led his own ensembles, including the Marine Band that appears in the Spielberg film Lincoln. He was a true and respected friend to all in the historic brass community, so it is especially gratifying to have his son play Liberati’s The Battle Cry of Freedom, a Civil-War-themed cornet solo published by J.W. Pepper on an 1882, Distin-made, J.W. Pepper echo-bell B-flat cornet from his father’s collection on this recording.
01. Salute to New York March
02. Yankee Tickle Medley
03. Fantasia on La Sonnambula
04. Overture to Nabucodonosor
05. Mañana Chilean Dance
06. Jolly Bears-Polka Humoristic
07. Through the Air
08. Semper Fidelis
09. Serenade on Good Night Beloved
10. The Battle Cry of Freedom
11. I Am Up-Quickstep
12. L’Estudiantina Waltz
13. Attila: Terzetto and Finale
The term “Gilded Age” (c. 1870-1890) conjures up images of American opulence and dynamism. It was also a period of great social and financial inequality and conflicting ideas about the role and reach of capitalism. Newly developed industries attracted thousands upon thousands of individuals and families from the uncertain life of farm work to the factories of the major cities, their numbers increased by immigrants escaping crushing poverty and political chaos in parts of Europe. A small number of businessmen became magnificently rich, but little of that saw its way to the workers. As a counter to this, the people’s representatives passed laws to curb some of these excesses, helping to pave the way for the Progressive Era that followed.
The years 1870–1890 saw innovations that made Americans’ lives somewhat easier. Gas lighting, indoor plumbing, railroads, and mass production of goods and materials created a booming economy. At the same time, mass immigration spurred nativist reactions, workers felt compelled to band into labor unions, and the drive to settle the Great Plains and the West resulted in further loss of territory and dignity for the indigenous peoples living there. This period of American history also saw a flowering of the arts in the United States. While this included the budding of a uniquely American artistic voice, German immigrants continued to dominate American music both in the concert hall and in the domestic parlor. For native musicians, however, popular music now benefitted from the development of an ecosystem of publishers, music stores and instrument makers, providing an outlet for a distinctively American musical landscape. For many Americans, the latest popular songs were brought to them by wind bands.
Following the American Civil War (1861–65), thousands of well-practiced, former military bandsmen formed or joined bands in their hometowns. Bands were considered essential organizations for any respectable Victorian-era town or city, and many locales had a number of ensembles. The popular town bands were augmented by visiting professional ensembles and bands associated with local fire stations, police precincts, mines and factories.
The explosion in band membership benefitted from the development of factory-produced instruments in Austria and France, along with their American import partners such as Lyon and Healy, Bruno and Son, Wurlitzer, Jenkins, and J. W. Pepper. In addition to instruments, American publishers began supplying inexpensive wind-band arrangements of popular songs, ethnic medleys, dances, marches, and more ambitious transcriptions of orchestral and operatic music in large number. This was truly the beginning of the Golden Age of band music in America.
Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band dedicates this recording to Don Johnson, Jr., who passed away suddenly in 2016. He was a dear friend of the band and father to our cornet soloist, Don Johnson III. Don was a wonderful cornetist and an avid collector of J. W. Pepper brass instruments. He had a great passion for the trumpet and historical performance and established and led his own ensembles, including the Marine Band that appears in the Spielberg film Lincoln. He was a true and respected friend to all in the historic brass community, so it is especially gratifying to have his son play Liberati’s The Battle Cry of Freedom, a Civil-War-themed cornet solo published by J.W. Pepper on an 1882, Distin-made, J.W. Pepper echo-bell B-flat cornet from his father’s collection on this recording.
Year 2021 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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