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Globus was founded as a result of increasing demand for Immediate Music to make their work available to a wider audience. The band's live world premiere took place in The Grand Hall, Wembley, London, on July 26, 2006 and their first album, Epicon, was released in August of that same year.
The Thunderer" is a march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889. [1] The origin of the name is not officially known, though it is speculated that the name is attributed to Myron M. Parker, a prominent DC politician and Freemason. It is also one of Sousa's most famous compositions.
The Band of the Welsh Guards of the British Army play as Grenadier guardsmen march from Buckingham Palace to Wellington Barracks after the changing of the Guard.. A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band.
The march demonstrates the state of the art in playing technology and the construction of brass instruments, which allowed fast and even chromatic gears in all instruments and positions. Fučík was so impressed by the description of a gladiator appearance in a Roman amphitheater in Henryk Sienkiewicz 's 1895 novel Quo Vadis that he soon ...
Allmusic said "of all the Moonchild releases, Templars: In Sacred Blood, is easily the most accessible, although relatively dark, it's a hell of a lot of fun.Even Zorn's lyrics are among the most poetic he's ever written; they follow a loose trajectory of historical and spiritual themes and still offer nods to his acidic sense of humor.
Sousa composed this march after being "knighted" by Columbia Commandery No. 2, a local division of the Knights Templar of the Masonic York Rite. It is believed that Sousa used fragments of Masonic music in the march. This march features a rare break strain between the first two strains.
The march is highly programmatic in its form and organization. The first section, written in the somber key of B-flat minor , describes the oppression of the Serbs by the Ottoman Turks . It uses two Serbian folk songs , " Sunce jarko, ne sijaš jednako " (Bright sun, you do not shine equally), [ 3 ] by Isidor Ćirić and " Rado ide Srbin u ...
A piece of the Toreador Song's sheet music, with lyrics translated to English by Jerry Castillo, is owned by the Smithsonian Institution and kept in the National Museum of American History. [15] The series Thermae Romae Novae features an adaptation of the Toreador Song. The adaptation was specifically created for the series to reflect the theme ...