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Be Glad Then America

A new recording by the New England Brass Band
Conducted by Douglas Yeo

with featured solos by Terry Everson (cornet), Douglas Yeo (bass trombone),
Leif Reslow (euphonium), Don Lucas, Al Stickland, Kenneth Griffin and Donald Kittle (trombones) and
Charles Osgood, narrator

Recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston
May 20, 2006 and June 9, 2007

Total time = 68:15

Produced by The New England Brass Band, Inc., NEBBCD 105

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This new compact disc recording is the fifth by The New England Brass Band, New England's premiere brass band "In The British Tradition." Recorded in Boston's acoustically acclaimed Symphony Hall (the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), it features a collection of music by American composers on American themes conducted by Music Director Douglas Yeo including:

• Liberty Fanfare (John Williams, arr. Steve Sykes)
  

• Simple Gifts (Joseph Brackett, Jr., arr. Goff Richards)
  

• Bess, You Is My Woman Now (George Gershwin, arr. Adrian Drover)
  Terry Everson, cornet solo

• New England Triptych: Be Glad Then America, When Jesus Wept, Chester (William Schuman, arr. Drew Fennell)
  

• My Shepherd (Traditional, arr. Brenton Broadstock)
  Don Lucas, Al Stickland, Kenneth Griffin, Donald Kittle, trombone soli

• Amazing Grace (Traditional, arr. William Himes)
  

• My Lord, What a Morning (Traditional Spiritual, arr. William Gordon)
  Douglas Yeo, bass trombone solo
  Terry Everson, conductor

• From the Film Gettysburg: Gettysburg Address, Reunion and Finale (Randy Edelman, arr. Douglas Yeo and Andrew Duncan)
  Charles Osgood, narrator
  

• Hometown Miniatures (Drew Fennell)
  

• Shenandoah (Traditional, arr. Leonard Ballantine)
  

• Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (Stephen Foster, arr. Elgar Howarth)
  Leif Reslow, euphonium solo

• Unity Fanfare (Norman Bolter, arr. Douglas Yeo)
  

• Armed Forces Salute (arr. Stephen Bulla)
  

• March: Rhode Island (Lloyd Reslow)