Episode 509, War and Peace

​​Lock and load!  So much music, like literature, is about conflict and resolution. This week we take a wind band tour of the extremes of war and peace, with music about vikings, epic war battles, and the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The Vikings
  Arthur Wills
  Dallas Wind Symphony, Frederick Fennell
A Civil War Saga
  Charles L. Booker, Jr.
  River Valley Community Band, Charles L. Booker, Jr.
Images for Brass
  Stephen Bulla
  Williams Fairey Band, Philip McCann
1812 Overture, Op. 49
  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs
Ecstatic Fanfare
  Steven Bryant
  US Air Force Band, Colonel Larry Lang
No Man's Land
  Julie Giroux
  University of North Texas Symphonic Band, Dennis Fisher
Hymn for World Peace
  David Maslanka
  Utah Wind Symphony, Scott A. Hagan