Celebration for Band, John Brakstad

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CELEBRATION FOR BAND
Many Norwegian bands have grown up around factories; but Norwegian factories are often located in the countrysides - by a fjord or lake, by a river or waterfall that provided power for the factory.
The factory was the foundation for the existence of the community, but it was also essential for the community's cultural life; choirs, bands etc. (cp. British brass bands and mining).
"Celebration for band" tries to give a picture of the environment and life around a band like this, with both factory noise and the natural world (Pastorale), as well as the challenges and development of the band itself.
The composition is built up of five connected episodes:

- Fanfare and Prologue (concludes with a feeling of the untamed power of the river)
- Pastorale I: ” At the river”
- Intermezzo: ” The Factory” (starts with the opening of water for the turbines: snare drum.
Factory whistle and bell call to work, and the spinning and weaving machinery starts up.)
- Pastorale II: ” Summer evening on the fjord.”
- Finale: ” Challenge and Progress”

Slagverk / Percussion instruments:
Percussion 1:
Timpani | Marimba | Xylophone | Glockenspiel | Tubular bells/Chimes | Bird whistle | Tambourine | Flexatone

Percussion 2:
Snare drum | Bass drum | Cymbals: Large Susp. Cym, Splash, Hi Hat | Tom toms | Windchimes/Barchimes | Cow bell | Triangle

Percussion 3:
Clash cymbal | Large Susp. Cym | Large Susp. Cym (to be put up side down on one timp when written) | Gong (Chinese Tam Tam) | Grand Cassa | Ocean drum (or rainmaker) | Temple blocks (4) | Bongoes (3) | Whip | Rattle / Ratchet

Instruments to be played by other band members:
Cabasa and Guiro (several)

JOHN BRAKSTAD
John Brakstad lives in Bergen, Norway.
John Brakstad gained much of his muiscal experience as bandmaster, composer and arranger for the Salvation Army, and from studies at the Bergen Musikk-konservatorium.
He has also been working as a conductor for several Norwegian ”Contest bands”, and is regularly used as an adjudicator at The Norwegian Band association’s contests and championships.
Brakstad has written many compositions for brass- and concert bands published by Norsk Noteservice as. Several of these has been test pieces at the national championships and later performed regularly at the same competitions. Among his original works are Variations for Band, The Old Railwaystation, Musica Tripartite and Cobalt.
He has written music for the Military band in his native Bergen and The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces which has been performed at the Bergen International Festival. Brakstad also wrote music (Prelude Olympic) for the opening ceremony at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway.
He also wrote a large work for choir and band for the Arne Garborg 150th Anniversary in 2001.

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