UNIV OF ILLINOIS CONCERT BAND #24-Mark Hindsley-1950s

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vintage LP band music
IN CONCERT

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
CONCERT BAND

Mark Hindsley,
conductor

LP vinyl record
Columbia Transcriptions
University of Illinois series #24
undated, c. mid-1950s
Mono
with band information on back jacket

JACKET FINE CONDITION
Front cover most smooth with ample sheen. Back cover is
likewise mostly smooth, with some surface wear.
Program is hand-entered on the back.
DISC FINE CONDITION
with a few minor blemishes only

RARE
LIMITED DISTRIBUTION
Highly Collectible

TRACK LISTING FOLLOWS THE U.I. BAND INFORMATION BELOW:

Over the years the University of Illinois Symphonic Band has established
itself as one of the finest collegiate ensembles ever put together, performing
at the highest level in every aspect of musicianship and artistic performance,
creating a lasting legacy in the annals of the recorded wind band repertoire.

This album is a rare find from the 1950s, a title that is out of print from the University
of Illinois catalog, and has not been available from the university for a long time.

Words alone cannot describe the tremendous contribution to the concert band field
and the legacy of recorded band music made by the University of Illinois band program.
A long tradition of outstanding conductors and fine musicians has continued to this day,
where the University of Illinois Symphonic Band remains perhaps the leading collegiate
ensemble in the world, continuing an epic series of professional-level performances that
defines the literature of band music and serves as the model for others to follow.
A few of the selections in this series are not recorded anywhere else.

What follows is a brief history of the UI band program, covering the time span of the LP recordings. If
you don't want to read further, simply scroll down to this album's program, given below this history.

Witness what two very famous band conductors have said
about the UI concert band over the years:

""...world's greatest band."
---John Philip Sousa, 1920s

" Second to none...finest of all concert bands."
---Edwin Franko Goldman, 1950s

And more recent comments about the band, covering the performances heard in this LP series:

"I have never heard such professional playing and sheer musicianship from any band"

"I know of no other band that could have played so much difficult music so well."

"One can easily see why the University of Illinois bands continue
to lead the nation in cultural attainment."

The tradition began shortly after the opening of the university in 1868, when a military band was formed.
The military band evolved into a concert band and in 1890 performed its first formal concert.

The first in a long line of fine conductors was Albert Austin Harding, who for 43 years guided the
program and developed it into a position of national prominence. Later Harding was named honorary
life president of both the College Band Directors National Association and the American Bandmasters
Association, honors reflecting the considerable influence he had on his peers in shaping the direction of
collegiate band music and in improving ensemble performance standards. The university's "Harding
Band Building," dedicated in 1958, is named in tribute to this icon of college band music.

The next great influential conductor was the legendary Mark Hindsley, who from 1948 to 1970 guided
the program to even greater heights and launched the famous recording series that stands today as the
longest ongoing series in the field. Hindsley not only conducted the concert band, but over the years
created many brilliant transcriptions of music from the standard orchestral repertoire, and recorded them
with his band. Most of these transcriptions are still performed today by bands worldwide.

Harry Begian became conductor in 1970, and continued the grand tradition with large ensemble, trend-setting
performances. Under his leadership and interpretive style his symphonic bands achieved the sound of a full
symphony orchestra, resulting in a sequence of especially brilliant recordings. Today, the Begian performances
are regarded as classics every bit as much as the Hindley performances are.

In 1985, upon the retirement of Harry Begian, renowned composer James Curnow took over as interim
 conductor, soon to be succeeded by James F. Keene. These two conductors recorded the last of the LPs.
 Not long after, the band turned to cassette tapes, and then to CDs in making recordings.
 The LP era was over, but the legacy continues, and the University Illinois is continuing to release
 recordings of great impact, precious gifts to the world of recorded concert band literature.

YOUR PURCHASE OF THIS ALBUM HELPS SUPPORT THE
BAND ARCHIVE PROJECT
for the preservation of band LP music

The Program:

Side 1

1. Chester Overture
William Schuman

2. Antiphony for Winds
Gerald Kechley

3. Suite for Trumpet
William Latham
John Haynie, trumpet soloist

4. Passion in Paint
Famous Painting Set to Music
At the Moulin Rouge - Persistence of Memory - L'Absinthe
Henri Rene

Side 2

1. Overture to "The Improvisator"
Eugene D'Albert, trans. Mark Hindsley

2. Second Suite in F
March - Song Without Words - Song of the Blacksmith - Fantasia on the "Dargason"
Gustav Holst

3. Jubilation Overture
David Ward, trans. Robert L. Leist

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