Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.894398 Composed by Zack Richards. Contemporary,Folk,Holiday,Patriotic. Score and parts. 66 pages. Zack Richards #5319661. Published by Zack Richards (A0.894398). I originally wrote a Brass Band version of this work to be performed by the Freedom Brass Band of Northeast Ohio in the summer of 2011 knowing that I wanted it to be connected to a well-known patriotic text. It quickly became my most popular work and I decided to arrange it for Concert Band in 2018. Because it was adapted from a Brass Band setting, some of the instrument ranges are more advanced, but can still work for an advanced high school or college band.From a young age I found inspiration in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. As a Boy Scout, I had read it at an annual service on Memorial Day. I had also studied it in school and even heard it spoken by a Lincoln impersonator. The words from this address speak to the ideals of human equality and freedom, and honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect those ideals. Lincoln refers to this sacrifice as the last full measure of devotion and it is to those men and women who so bravely sacrificed that I dedicate this work. The Score is formatted 11x17All parts are 8 1/2x11Instrumentation:PiccoloFlutes with divisiOboeBassoon1st, 2nd, and 3rd Bb Clarinets with divisiBass ClarinetAlto SaxophoneTenor SaxophoneBaritone Saxophone1st, 2nd, and 3rd Bb Trumpets with divisi4 French Horns in F2 TrombonesEuphonium (Treble and bass clef provided)TubaTimpani (4)Crash CymbalsSnare DrumBass DrumAdvanced IntermediateApprox. 7:00Visit zackrichards.com for more from this composer.
