wimpel69
10-31-2016, 11:35 AM
Please request the FLAC links (including the covers
and booklets*) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
This is the most fun music in the "Americana" style (Copland, Thomson, Harris, Gould, etc) that you will ever find!
American composer, arranger and music functionary Don Gillis was born in Missouri in 1912 and he died of a sudden
heart attack in South Carolina in 1978. But his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when he was 17, and that is the state
where he lived and worked most of his life and that is the state which inspired most of his music. While still in high school he
formed a jazz band for which he prepared arrangements and wrote original pieces. In 1931 he enrolled in Texas Christian
University on a scholarship as a trombone player. He graduated in 1935 and moved on to advanced studies in composition
and orchestration at North Texas State University in Denton.
After that, for two years he served as staff arranger and producer for a Fort Worth radio station. Then he became a member
of the production team for NBC�s Chicago affiliate. His first major works were created about this time. They had interesting
titles from the very beginning: The Panhandle and Thoughts Provoked On Becoming a Prospective Papa; a tone poem
called The Raven, and Willy the Wollyworm for narrator and orchestra.
In 1944, after only a year in Chicago, NBC brought Gillis to New York to serve as chief producer and writer for the NBC
Symphony Orchestra concerts, working with Arturo Toscanini -- with whom he established a close personal friendship.
Toscanini, Antal Dorati, other conductors, and the composer himself conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in many
of Don Gillis�s works. Gillis held his position with the orchestra until it was disbanded on Toscanini�s retirement in 1954.
Then Gillis helped form a new broadcast orchestra called the Symphony of the Air.
All this administrative work did not prevent him from writing a great deal of music, including symphonies, operas,
piano concertos, rhapsodies for harp and orchestra and trumpet and orchestra, tone poems, suites, string quartets,
woodwind quintets, and works for band of every description. All of it is tonal and highly accessible, unlike the compositions
of many of Gillis�s contemporary composers. Like George Gershwin�s long-form efforts, Gillis�s music combines jazz and
popular harmonies with classical instrumentation and forms. All of Gillis�s symphonic music is very well orchestrated
and melodic, and most of it is light, fun, and full of humor. Don Gillis wrote some 13 symphonies, several of them
with names as well as numbers or with names without numbers. The Star-Spangled Symphony was acknowledged by
Gillis to be his �Ninth,� but he was reluctant to number it as such because, as he put it, he didn�t want to
�compete with Beethoven.� His 10th symphony was called Symphony X, subtitled �The Big D,� probably for Dallas.
But Gillis said the �X� did not stand for �ten.� Then there was Gillis�s Symphony No. 5 1/2, subtitled a
�Symphony for Fun.� And there were also two symphonies for concert band.
This collection includes:
Symphony No.1, "American"
Symphony No.2, "Faith"
Symphony No.3, "A Symphony for Free Men"
Symphony No.4, "The Pioneers"
Symphony No.5, "In Memoriam"
Symphony No.5 1/2, "A Symphony of Fun" (2x)
Symphony No.6, "Mid-Century USA"
Symphony No.7, "Saga of a Prairie School"
Symphony No.8, "A Dance Symphony"
Symphony No.9, "Star-Spangled Symphony"
Symphony No. X, "The Big D" (2x)
Paul Bunyan: Overture to a Legend
Portrait of a Frontier Town
The Alamo
Amarillo: A Symphonic Celebration
Tulsa (Symphonic Poem)
The Encore Concerto (Piano Concerto No.1) (2x)
Piano Concerto No.2
Shindig
Rhapsody for Harp
Rhapsody for Trumpet
Short Overture to an Unwritten Opera
Twinkletoes
Music Composed by
Don Gillis
Played by the
Sinfonia Varsovia
Albany Symphony Orchestra
With
Alan Feinberg (piano)
Ian Hobson (piano)
Anna Sikorzak-Olek (harp)
Krzysztof Bednarczyk (trumpet)
Conducted by
Ian Hobson
David Alan Miller
"Do you enjoy classical music that is off the beaten path? Are you frustrated by the lack of imaginative
releases by the major classical labels? Albany Records is where you should look. Interesting, imaginative
releases � many, many world premieres. The music on Albany Records is uncommonly classical.
Albany Records is devoted to music by American composers (with a few notable exceptions) performed
by the best of America�s artists. From premiere recordings of orchestral music by Roy Harris, Morton Gould
and Don Gillis to music by George Lloyd and Andrei Eshpai, there is something for everyone on Albany Records �
provided your interests are just a bit out of the ordinary."
Source: Albany Records CDs (My rips!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 files (each disc incl. cover & booklets)
File Sizes: 313 MB / 342 MB / 329 MB / 400 MB / 284 MB / 275 MB / 244 MB / 256 MB
Total Size: 2.4 GB
Please request the FLAC links (including the covers
and booklets*) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
* - The booklets, as provided by Albany Records, are often incomplete
and booklets*) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
This is the most fun music in the "Americana" style (Copland, Thomson, Harris, Gould, etc) that you will ever find!
American composer, arranger and music functionary Don Gillis was born in Missouri in 1912 and he died of a sudden
heart attack in South Carolina in 1978. But his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when he was 17, and that is the state
where he lived and worked most of his life and that is the state which inspired most of his music. While still in high school he
formed a jazz band for which he prepared arrangements and wrote original pieces. In 1931 he enrolled in Texas Christian
University on a scholarship as a trombone player. He graduated in 1935 and moved on to advanced studies in composition
and orchestration at North Texas State University in Denton.
After that, for two years he served as staff arranger and producer for a Fort Worth radio station. Then he became a member
of the production team for NBC�s Chicago affiliate. His first major works were created about this time. They had interesting
titles from the very beginning: The Panhandle and Thoughts Provoked On Becoming a Prospective Papa; a tone poem
called The Raven, and Willy the Wollyworm for narrator and orchestra.
In 1944, after only a year in Chicago, NBC brought Gillis to New York to serve as chief producer and writer for the NBC
Symphony Orchestra concerts, working with Arturo Toscanini -- with whom he established a close personal friendship.
Toscanini, Antal Dorati, other conductors, and the composer himself conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in many
of Don Gillis�s works. Gillis held his position with the orchestra until it was disbanded on Toscanini�s retirement in 1954.
Then Gillis helped form a new broadcast orchestra called the Symphony of the Air.
All this administrative work did not prevent him from writing a great deal of music, including symphonies, operas,
piano concertos, rhapsodies for harp and orchestra and trumpet and orchestra, tone poems, suites, string quartets,
woodwind quintets, and works for band of every description. All of it is tonal and highly accessible, unlike the compositions
of many of Gillis�s contemporary composers. Like George Gershwin�s long-form efforts, Gillis�s music combines jazz and
popular harmonies with classical instrumentation and forms. All of Gillis�s symphonic music is very well orchestrated
and melodic, and most of it is light, fun, and full of humor. Don Gillis wrote some 13 symphonies, several of them
with names as well as numbers or with names without numbers. The Star-Spangled Symphony was acknowledged by
Gillis to be his �Ninth,� but he was reluctant to number it as such because, as he put it, he didn�t want to
�compete with Beethoven.� His 10th symphony was called Symphony X, subtitled �The Big D,� probably for Dallas.
But Gillis said the �X� did not stand for �ten.� Then there was Gillis�s Symphony No. 5 1/2, subtitled a
�Symphony for Fun.� And there were also two symphonies for concert band.
This collection includes:
Symphony No.1, "American"
Symphony No.2, "Faith"
Symphony No.3, "A Symphony for Free Men"
Symphony No.4, "The Pioneers"
Symphony No.5, "In Memoriam"
Symphony No.5 1/2, "A Symphony of Fun" (2x)
Symphony No.6, "Mid-Century USA"
Symphony No.7, "Saga of a Prairie School"
Symphony No.8, "A Dance Symphony"
Symphony No.9, "Star-Spangled Symphony"
Symphony No. X, "The Big D" (2x)
Paul Bunyan: Overture to a Legend
Portrait of a Frontier Town
The Alamo
Amarillo: A Symphonic Celebration
Tulsa (Symphonic Poem)
The Encore Concerto (Piano Concerto No.1) (2x)
Piano Concerto No.2
Shindig
Rhapsody for Harp
Rhapsody for Trumpet
Short Overture to an Unwritten Opera
Twinkletoes
Music Composed by
Don Gillis
Played by the
Sinfonia Varsovia
Albany Symphony Orchestra
With
Alan Feinberg (piano)
Ian Hobson (piano)
Anna Sikorzak-Olek (harp)
Krzysztof Bednarczyk (trumpet)
Conducted by
Ian Hobson
David Alan Miller
"Do you enjoy classical music that is off the beaten path? Are you frustrated by the lack of imaginative
releases by the major classical labels? Albany Records is where you should look. Interesting, imaginative
releases � many, many world premieres. The music on Albany Records is uncommonly classical.
Albany Records is devoted to music by American composers (with a few notable exceptions) performed
by the best of America�s artists. From premiere recordings of orchestral music by Roy Harris, Morton Gould
and Don Gillis to music by George Lloyd and Andrei Eshpai, there is something for everyone on Albany Records �
provided your interests are just a bit out of the ordinary."
Source: Albany Records CDs (My rips!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 files (each disc incl. cover & booklets)
File Sizes: 313 MB / 342 MB / 329 MB / 400 MB / 284 MB / 275 MB / 244 MB / 256 MB
Total Size: 2.4 GB
Please request the FLAC links (including the covers
and booklets*) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
* - The booklets, as provided by Albany Records, are often incomplete