Bruce Pearson has written this overture for band to describe the many different peoples that make up our country, or, for that matter, any country. From its bold opening statement to its melodic Andante section, Tapestry is the perfect selection for your festival or contest presentation. Challenging to all sections of the band, it is a work combining "colonial-style" melodies with 20th century harmonies. A dramatic statement by Bruce Pearson, author of the Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method.
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.
