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2 Samuel 11:1 – 12:25 – David and Bathsheba

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Brad

  Romeo and Juliet, is an orchestral work composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is styled an Overture-Fantasy, and is based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name. Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired … Continue reading →

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2 Samuel 5:1-7:29 – King David 

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Brad

Fanfare for the Common Man is a musical work by American composer Aaron Copland. The piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same year where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed … Continue reading →

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1 Samuel 23:7-24:22 – David and Saul

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Brad

The First Suite in E-flat for Military Band, Op. 28, No. 1, by the British composer Gustav Holst is considered one of the cornerstone masterworks in the concert bandrepertoire. Officially premiered in 1920 at the Royal Military School of Music, the manuscript was originally completed in … Continue reading →

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