AMERICAN RHAPSODY: MUSIC FOR BRASS AND PERCUSSION

New collection of imposing works for brass band, all with an Americana subtext. Prominently featured are several pieces by veteran film composer Bruce Broughton. Broughton has a strong history with brass composition and performance and these works display that history well. Crisp new performances by the Brass Of The Potomac, under Navy Band veteran and prolific band composer Stephen Bulla.


This thirty-piece brass and percussion ensemble is comprised of musicians from around the metro Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia region, and includes members of the premier Military Bands. It is an all-volunteer, registered non-profit organization. The band has rehearsed regularly since its founding in early 2008 by member/manager Christopher Dennard.

Brass Of The Potomac is committed to promoting the British-style brass band sound and repertoire, and has performed for a wide variety of venues including community arts series, sacred church concerts, and in early 2010 at the U.S. Army Tuba Euphonium Conference as a featured ensemble.

Stephen Bulla is the principal conductor of Brass Of The Potomac. A graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music, he has served for nearly three decades as Chief Arranger to The President's Own U.S. Marine Band and White House Orchestra. He is in demand as a clinician with all-state bands around the country, and is a frequent adjudicator for the North American Brass Band Association.

His commissioned concert works are performed and recorded internationally. The Dutch, British, Swiss, and New Zealand brass band contesting organizations have all commissioned test pieces from his pen.
Released from a rare minor label.

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1. American Rhapsody
2. A Festive Prelude
3. Erie Canal
4. Wind Beneath My Wings
5. Harlequin
6. Images For Brass
7. Aura Lee
8. California
9. To A Wild Rose
10. Deep Passage
11. My Country 'Tis of Thee
12. Post Bellum Rhapsody
13. Shenandoah
14. God And Country