The North American Brass Band Summer School

Repertoire

Repertoire for the NABBSS is twofold. In the first instance, the summer school band participate in the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo as a static "set band", performing from the large Tattoo stage alongside over 500 other musicians from Canada, the United States and other featured nations in the Tattoo's massed band production scenes.

Tattoo performances take place each day at the Halifax Metro Centre, for an audience in excess of 6 000 people - c. 60 000 people throughout the run. The performance is also captured on CD and DVD, each year both of which amass a good deal of broadcast exposure on radio and television across North America via broadcast on the PBS network.

In the second aspect of the summer school, as with other schools of this nature, attendees tackle new and more challenging brass band concert repertoire under the guidance of the NABBSS tuition staff, who are on hand throughout providing expert tuition and support. Repertoire includes some of the latest works from the catalogue of NABBSS partners and leading brass band publishers Prima Vista Musikk.

This concert material then forms the programme for a small number of festival performances which the NABBSS band undertake across the city of Halifax during the school's second week, under the baton of Dr. Childs.

An outline of repertoire from NABBSS 2014 is provided below. NABBSS 2015 repertoire will be confirmed in Spring 2015


NABBSS Repertoire 2014


Massed Bands


Conductor: LCdr (Rtd) Gaetan Bouchard, Principal Director of Music, Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo

Highland Cathedral

For The Fallen

Amazing Grace

Fall In

I Vow To Thee My Country

Oh! What A Lovely War

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Sing Sing Sing

Florentiner March

We’ll Meet Again

William Tell Overture

National Anthems (numerous)



NABBSS Lunchtime Concerts


Conductor: Dr Robert Childs

(selection from the following)

Where Eagles Sing - Paul Lovatt Cooper

Overture: The Barber of Seville - Rossini

Solos with David Childs euphonium

Suite from Stabat Mater - Karl Jenkins

Solos with Dan Perantoni Tuba

1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky

Walking With Heroes - Paul Lovatt Cooper

March: Praise - Wilfred Heaton

America and Somewhere (from West Side Story) - Bernstein

Abide With Me - Monk

Pel Mel - W.Hogarth Lear


Sight Reading Session


Conductors: Dr Robert and David Childs

Spectrum - Gilbert Vinter

Shine As The Light - Peter Graham
Schedule...
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