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Title Brasstown Blues
Composer Webb, Roger Marshall’s
Civic Band
Topeka, KS
Est’d 1884
Number C-944
Type CB
Date 1974
Key F
Arranger Cacavas, John John B. Marshall Length 2.30
Publisher Theodore Presser Co. Vocal No
Association   Grade/Difficulty ?/?
Last Performed Unknown
Manuscript No
Style Concert Piece
Feature, Brass
Location Marshall's Band Library
Cataloger Rick Baker
Date Cataloged 12/07/1998
Notes
Donated to Marshall's Band by J.D. Parr of the Baker University band.  Brass 
section feature.  Notes about the composer and arranger on folder: 
 
About the Composer: One of England's brightest and newest talents, Roger Webb is 
known to millions of Britons as a pianist and composer.  As a composer, he has 
written music for many BBC television productions and for a number of films, 
including "One Brief Summer", "Bartleby", "Burke and Hare", and "Au Pair".  He 
has acted as Musical Director and arranged for various record companies 
providing musical backgrounds for such artists as Shirley Bassey, Topol, Des 
O'Connor, Eddie Fisher, Bobby Darin and Brook Benton.  As pianist with the Roger 
Webb Trio, he has appeared on many British radio and TV programs. 
 
About the Arranger: John Cacavas was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and 
educated at Northwestern University.  After serving as a staff arranger for the 
United States Army Band in Washington, D.C., he moved to New York City and 
composed background music for such television productions as "The Armstrong 
Circle Theatre", "The DuPont Show of the Week", and he arranged and conducted 
for "Repertoire Workshop", "Stage Two" and "Look Up and Live".  He has twice won 
the George Washington Honor Award presented by the Freedoms Foundation, Valley 
Forge, Pennsylvania. 
      
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