Annapolis, MD, collector Charles Richardson has compiled and issued several albums' worth of material by the United States Naval Academy Band. Others reflect the ensemble as it exists today, but this two-disc release, assembled as part of the band's 150th anniversary celebrations, is more of a historical release, although it also contains newly commissioned music on a larger scale than that usually performed by the group. The two discs cover, in more or less chronological order, a sampling of the Naval Academy Band's ...
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Annapolis, MD, collector Charles Richardson has compiled and issued several albums' worth of material by the United States Naval Academy Band. Others reflect the ensemble as it exists today, but this two-disc release, assembled as part of the band's 150th anniversary celebrations, is more of a historical release, although it also contains newly commissioned music on a larger scale than that usually performed by the group. The two discs cover, in more or less chronological order, a sampling of the Naval Academy Band's recordings, taken from both concerts and studio releases. The earliest, a recording of Anchors Aweigh, comes from an acoustic 78 made in 1920. Conductor Lt. Adolph Torovsky succeeded the march's composer, Charles A. Zimmerman, as bandmaster, and was thus in a position to deliver what one might call an authentic performance of the work. Despite a good deal of surface noise, it's fascinating, like some of the recordings made by John Philip Sousa, it seems to race ahead of itself and is...
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