Liberty Eagle March was inspired by television images of our military men and women returning home after tours of duty in war torn areas of the world. Happy family members, "welcome home" banners, military bands, and a sense of patriotic pride are the images and emotions portrayed by this composition. Included in this contest/festival march is a percussion soli as well as an "advanced" snare part to motivate young percussion players. A bold and dynamic march for grade one bands! Michael Oare has been the Director of Bands at Great Bridge Middle School in Chesapeake, Virginia, since 1991 and also plays Eb Clarinet with the Virginia Wind Symphony. Mr. Oare has also contributed Awakened Voices Resound, Greenbrier Legacy, and Portsmouth Reflections to the Standard of Excellence In Concert series.
About Standard of Excellence in Concert
The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.
Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.
