This would have been my father’s birthday (he died in 1974). His taught high school band and then became a school administrator. But he kept his hands in music, directing among other groups a community band. This playlist consists of songs the band played. Except as otherwise noted, all the songs are by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic – one of my dad’s favorite groups.
Stretching. Gym in the Apartment. NK Body Philosophy.
Scotland the Brave – The Isle of Cumbrae Pipe Band
The Thunderer
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
Under the Double Eagle
Radetsky March, Op. 28
The National Emblem
March of the Toreadors from Carmen
Grand March from Aida
Colonel Bogey
Rakoczy March/Hungarian March from la Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Coronation March from Le Prophete
March from Symphonic Metamorphoses
Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39
Light Cavalry Overture – London Festival Orchestra
Along the Graybeard Trail 