{"id":6061,"date":"2021-11-02T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:19:51","slug":"symphony-no-1-forband-toccata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/symphony-no-1-forband-toccata\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony No. 1 for Band &#8211; Toccata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1363\" height=\"1371\" src=\"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Smith-Masterpiece-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6063 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>by Claude T. Smith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disc: SMITH CONDUCTS SMITH: THE MUSIC OF CLAUDE T. SMITH VOLUME 4: MASTERWORKS&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recording: Recording: University of Kansas Symphonic Band &amp; Southwestern State University Wind Symphony<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conductors: Robert E. Foster &amp; Dr. James W. Jurrens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher: MARK Vintage Series (reissued from Golden Crest) 55994-MCD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markcustom.com\/Markcustom_new\/Menu2_ViewAlbum.asp?CDNum=55994-MCD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purchase<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volume 4 in this superb Claude T. Smith series continues the same quality and professionalism put into an outstanding collection of a legendary band composer. The program begins with Dance Prelude; a most infectious rhythmic essay that will dazzle your senses. Moresca: A Dance Pantomime is a splendid portrait of dance and variation with several solo passages. Santiago Carnival is a very descriptive Latin American music festival. Jubilant Prelude features Smith\u2019s gift for combining dynamic writing and expressive solo lines. Symphony No.1 is a four movement work filled with plenty of brilliance and lyricism\u2026notice the creative use of mallet percussion in the Toccata. Shenandoah: A Sea Fantasy sheds a symphonic light on&nbsp; this beloved folk tune which is also known as Across the Wide Missouri (Smith was born in Monroe City, Missouri). Festival Variations has quite deservedly been frequently performed and recorded by bands\/wind ensembles throughout the world. Volume 4, along with the three preceding volumes are highly recommended for your band listening library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bandworld.org\/musiclips\/IncidentalSuiteTarentella.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to recording<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Claude T. Smith Disc: SMITH CONDUCTS SMITH: THE MUSIC OF CLAUDE T. SMITH VOLUME 4: MASTERWORKS&nbsp; Recording: Recording: University of Kansas Symphonic Band &amp; Southwestern State University Wind Symphony Conductors: Robert E. Foster &amp; Dr. James W. Jurrens Publisher: MARK Vintage Series (reissued from Golden Crest) 55994-MCD Purchase Volume 4 in this superb Claude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[246,614,617,618,616,615],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-reviews","tag-bandworld-magazine","tag-claude-t-smith","tag-foster","tag-jurrens","tag-southwestern-state-university-wind-symphony","tag-university-of-kansas-symphonic-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}