MANHATTAN BEACH MUSIC
Raising the Standards of the American Concert Band and BANDS all Over the WORLD
Exclusive Australian Distribution by Future Music
In this followup to The Battle Pavane, Bob Margolis re-created an Elizabethan pavane in very quiet, lushly transparent, quasi-authentic style, but scored it so openly as to challenge even college bands. Take that, ye college bands. Sensitivity to intonation and articulation and ensemble are requisites. It has so tested state lists (what grade is it?) that it's been graded 1,2, or 3 (as to technique, it is scarcely a I). Quiet bass drum strokes start and end it. A mesmerising moment: One single tam-tam stroke raises the band from the earth to the air.