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Brandes Rehearsal Notes
This page will develop over time as I learn new pieces and catch up with the scores that I have on file.  If there is something that you are interested in from my repertoire list that does not appear here let me know and I will locate it or work it up and forward to you.   I do not include some of the resources I have used  because of copyright.  Everything here is based on my personal study. 
The "Rehearsal notes" below are basically my ideas on interpretation.  I have made decisions based on my study, recordings of the same composition or other compositions by the same composer.  It is my intention to honor what I know and believe to be individual characteristics and signature practices of each composer.  I also believe my role as a conductor is to provide more for the performers and audience than the composer has written on the page.  Most composers invite us into the interpretive process but it is our responsibility to remain as true to the composer's intent as possible.   
Chorale and Shaker Dance, John Zdechlik
  • Rehearsal notes 
  • Errata
An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Score excerpt
  • Columbine Alma Mater
English Folk Song Suite, Ralph Vaughn Williams
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Graph Mvt. 2 & 3
Fortress, Frank Ticheli
  • Rehearsal Notes
  • Additional info​
Handel in the Strand, Percy Aldridge Grainger
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Graph and hand written notes 
Resplendent Light, Tyler Grant
  • Rehearsal notes
Sea Songs, Ralph Vaughn Williams
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Handwritten notes
  • Score excerpt
Symphonic Dance No. 3, Fiesta, Clifton Williams
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Instrumentalist Magazine, "Bitonal Harmonies of Sym. Dance No.3, John Wojcik, 1996
Red Covered Bridge, Robert Sheldon
  • Rehearsal notes
Variations on a Korean Folk Song, John Barnes Chance
  • ​Rehearsal notes
  • Comprehensive Musicianship, (adated from Guide to Masterworks)
  • Unit Study (available form: Kish, David.  Guides to Band Masterworks, Vol. III.  Meredith Music Publications.  2013. 
1861, Jonathan Newman
  • ​Rehearsal notes
With Heart and Voice, David Gillingham 
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Graph
Anthem of an Era, Tyler Grant
  • ​Rehearsal notes
Magic Valley, Scott Watson
  • ​Rehearsal notes
Third Suite, Robert Jager
  • Rehearsal notes
Yosemite Autumn, Mark Camphouse
  • Rehearsal notes
As Summer Was Just Beginning, Larry Daehn
  • Rehearsal notes
Chant and Jubilo, W Francis McBeth
  • ​Rehearsal notes
Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo, Malcolm Arnold
  • Rehearsal notes
Where Words End......, Randall Standridge
  • Rehearsal notes
The Promise of Living, from "The Tender Land", Aaron Copland, Trans. Kenneth Singleton
  • Rehearsal notes
Flex Arrangements.  Here are some notes on Flex Arrangements I have conducted in 2020-21.  
  • Intrada II, Satoshi Yagisawa
  • Sakura Song, Yosuke Fukuda
  • Two Bagatelles, Tomohito Matsushita
  • Cotswolds Pictures, Hayato Hirose
  • Over Great Waves and Far Away, Yo Gato
  • At Morning's First Light, David Gillingham
  • Hymn to the Dawn, Kimberly Archer
Fanfare Genration Next, Zachary Cairns
  • Rehearsal notes
Relentless, Randall D. Standridge
  • ​Rehearsal notes 
Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa, Andrew Boysen, Jr. 
  • Thematic analysis
  • Rehearsal notes
October, Eric Whitacre
  • Rehearsal notes
Irish Tune from County Derry, Percy Aldridge Grainger
  • Rehearsal notes
  • Summary
  • Harmonic Analysis
Be Thou My Vision, David R. Gillingham
  • Rehearsal Notes
Second Suite in F, Op. 28, No. 2, Gustav Holst 
  • ​Rehearsal Notes 
Incantation and Dance, John Barnes Chance
  • ​Rehearsal Notes 
Radiant Shadows, Julie Giroux
  • Rehearsal Notes
  • Flow Chart
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