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"Seventy-Six Trombones" is a show tune and the signature song from the 1957 musical The Music Man, by Meredith Willson, a film of the same name in 1962 and a made-for-TV movie in 2003. The piece is commonly played by marching bands, military bands, and orchestras. [1] [2]
76 Trombones [13] "Seventy-Six Trombones" is a popular marching song, from the musical The Music Man. 77 Two little crutches [13] The number 77 resembles 2 little "Crutches". Sunset Strip From the 1960s television series "77 Sunset Strip". Usually sung by the players. 78 39 more steps 39 + 39 = 78. Refer to 39 being "39 steps" above. Heaven's gate
In the stage and film productions of The Music Man, set in 1912, character Harold Hill mentions Conway in the introduction to "Seventy-Six Trombones" alongside other famous bandleaders like Patrick Gilmore and John Philip Sousa. All three were inaugural members of the National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors in 1980.
[31] White had previously turned down Disney when they offered to make a film based on his book. [32] According to the film's writer, Earl Hamner Jr., Katharine White, White's wife—who sometimes offered advice and suggestions to the filmmakers—would have preferred the music of Mozart in the film, rather than the music of the Sherman ...
James Carter Pankow (born August 20, 1947) is an American trombone player, songwriter, and brass instrument arranger who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. [2] He is best known for his brass arrangements, and for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider.
It was Urbie's lyric tenor trombone playing that inspired George to be an "Urbie" one octave lower. After the Krupa band broke up in 1949, Roberts was a freelance musician in Reno, Nevada , for a year before being hired by Stan Kenton to replace Bart Varsalona, who had left the band during its 1949–1950 hiatus. [ 4 ]
The Music Man (full title Jimmy Giuffre and his Music Men Play The Music Man) is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre featuring tunes from Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical, The Music Man which was released on the Atlantic label in February 1958.
Vor Arneths Grab, WAB 53, a 28-bar long work in F minor for men's choir and 3 trombones on a text by Ernst Marinelli, composed in 1854 as elegy for prelate Michael Arneth. Laßt Jubeltöne laut erklingen , WAB 76, a 100-bar long "semi-cantata" in E-flat major for men's choir on a text by Hillischer, composed in 1854 as festive song for the ...