MANHATTAN BEACH MUSIC
Raising the Standards of the American Concert Band and BANDS all Over the WORLD
Exclusive Australian Distribution by Future Music
Jody. It's a work-song, collected from a Texas prison in 1966. As such, it has the character of a chanted march. Broege says it best: "The anvil in the opening bars should clang out with a brutality like unto the slamming shut of the gates of hell." Broege's serious and dramatic setting is cast as theme and variations. Program notes detail the form and development of the music, which is alternately, grim, grand, resigned, and supremely defiant.