Harold L. Walters

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Harold Walters Laurence (* 29. September 1918 in Gurdon , the US state of Arkansas ; † 22. October 1984 in Hollywood , California ) was an American composer . He also used the pseudonym Fred L. Frank .

He started playing cornet at the age of eight and had his first music lessons. During his five years with the US Navy Band as a tubist and arranger, he completed his music studies at the College Conservatory of Music (CCM) at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati , Ohio , with Nadia Boulanger , among others . He also studied at the American University in Washington DC and at the Washington College of Music in Chestertown , Maryland , where he received his doctorate in 1943.

Afterwards he worked as a conductor and composer at theaters, in film and in various orchestras. a. with the well-known orchestra of Sigmund Romberg in Washington (DC) and in New York . Since 1947 he has been associated with the Rubank Publishing Company as a composer, arranger and editor.

His oeuvre includes around 1500 compositions and arrangements as well as textbooks. It was eclectic and composed in almost all musical styles.

Walters was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). In 1956 he was elected President of the American Bandmasters Association and a few years later he received an honorary doctorate in composition from the Washington College of Music .

He has conducted wind bands and orchestras all over the world. And when you asked him what kind of orchestras these were, he always replied: The smallest orchestra was a circus band with 9 musicians and the largest orchestra consisted of 12,800 musicians at the University of Michigan .

Works

Works for wind orchestra (selection)

  • 1947 Badinage for Brasses
  • 1949 Copa Cabana
  • 1950 Deep River Rhapsody
  • 1951 Dixieland Revel , March
  • 1951 Latin American March
  • 1952 A Hot Time in the Brasses Tonight!
  • 1952 TV suite
  • 1953 The Christmas Suite
  • 1953 King size
  • 1954 La Mascarada
  • 1955 American Folk Suite
  • 1955 Viva Paulo!
  • 1957 Leetonia Overture for Band
  • 1957 Three Scenes
  • 1961 Civil War Suite
  • 1962 Spiritual Contrasts
  • 1962 He's got the hole world
  • 1962 I'm on my way
  • 1963 Hootenanny Folk Festival for Band
  • 1964 Trumpet Filigree for trumpet and wind orchestra
  • 1966 Jamaican Folk Suite
  • 1967 Duty Honor, Country for narrator and wind orchestra
  • 1970 Instant Concert
  • 1971 Japanese Folk Suite
  • 1972 Bands around the World
  • 1975 Country and Western
  • 1980 Americana suite
  • Brasses to the Fore , March

Educational works

  • Forty Fathoms Solo for Eb tuba
  • Concertante Solo for BBb Tuba

literature

  • Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : The brass music lexicon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 , p. 792 f .
  • William H. Rehrig: The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. Composers and Their Music . Ed .: Paul E. Bierley. Volume 2: O – Z. Integrity Press, Westerville, Ohio 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7 , pp. 801 f .