There is a heck of a good reason why Czech composer Karel Husa is considered one of the top composers in the symphonic band medium; his music is exciting, he has an intrinsic knowledge of musical instruments, and has no compunction about using wild combinations of them in order to add color. He uses progressive rhythmic elements to keep it all together and most listeners of any experience are unlikely to get lost in Husa's music. Although the flavor of Husa's work is essentially Czech, he has made his career mostly in the ...
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There is a heck of a good reason why Czech composer Karel Husa is considered one of the top composers in the symphonic band medium; his music is exciting, he has an intrinsic knowledge of musical instruments, and has no compunction about using wild combinations of them in order to add color. He uses progressive rhythmic elements to keep it all together and most listeners of any experience are unlikely to get lost in Husa's music. Although the flavor of Husa's work is essentially Czech, he has made his career mostly in the United States, where he was based out of Cornell University for four decades; his calling card is the magnificent band composition Music for Prague 1968, which commemorates the "Prague Spring" of that year and the extensive protests that followed in its wake. In 1990, two years before he retired from Cornell, Husa succeeded in conducting Music for Prague 1968 in the city of Prague himself, realizing a long-held dream. While Husa's music was widely represented in the vinyl era, it...
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