So here's the set up.
I play in a community band, here in Athens.
We are working on our Memorial Day and Independence Day music. It is mostly standards that we old farts have played every July 4th for 50+ years.
We have two standard pieces (and others).
One is "Armed Forces Salute" a compilation of service songs, that now includes The Space Force Hymn. If you have been to a July 4th concert, you have heard it, members of each service are asked to stand when their service song is played. No one knows that the Coast Guard song is, so often no one stands, but otherwise a pretty ordinary piece of music. Written about 1975.
The other standard is "American Patrol" a concert march from 1885, that simulates a military band marching by, soft, loud, soft as it marches away. Lively standard march that includes snippets of patriotic songs, made famous by Glenn Miller. If you heard it, you would recognize it.
Now for the trivia - each piece has a section of about 4 bars that we have to leave out - skip over, less than 3 seconds of music each. Actually less than 2 seconds if played up to temp in one of them.
Why do we have to leave those 3 seconds or so of music out?
I play in a community band, here in Athens.
We are working on our Memorial Day and Independence Day music. It is mostly standards that we old farts have played every July 4th for 50+ years.
We have two standard pieces (and others).
One is "Armed Forces Salute" a compilation of service songs, that now includes The Space Force Hymn. If you have been to a July 4th concert, you have heard it, members of each service are asked to stand when their service song is played. No one knows that the Coast Guard song is, so often no one stands, but otherwise a pretty ordinary piece of music. Written about 1975.
The other standard is "American Patrol" a concert march from 1885, that simulates a military band marching by, soft, loud, soft as it marches away. Lively standard march that includes snippets of patriotic songs, made famous by Glenn Miller. If you heard it, you would recognize it.
Now for the trivia - each piece has a section of about 4 bars that we have to leave out - skip over, less than 3 seconds of music each. Actually less than 2 seconds if played up to temp in one of them.
Why do we have to leave those 3 seconds or so of music out?
