| Ultimate Valor | JaRod Hall |
| Selections from “Wicked” | Stephen Schwartz arr. Jay Bocook |
| Amber Waves of Grain Julie Levine, Assistant Conductor |
James Curnow |
| Eternal Flame | Brian Balmages |
| Let Freedom Ring! | arr. Kenny Bierschenk |
| Eternal Father, Strong to Save | arr. Pete Middlestadt |
| They Called it U.S.A.* | Ted Duncan |
| Missing Man |
Jerker Johansson |
| Salute to the Armed Forces |
arr. Jari Villanueva |
| Amazing Grace |
arr. Ryan Nowlin |
| Washington Post |
John Phillip Sousa |
They Called It U.S.A.
On this piece we feature the four generations of the Duncan Family.
ANDREW DUNCAN
(Grandson)
ANDREW JR. DUNCAN
(Great-Grandson)
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COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY: TED DUNCAN (Father)
Ted Duncan ( born September 27, 1902 in Fresno, California; died March 9, 1976, age 73, in Burbank, California) was a prolific composer, arranger and orchestrator, and an inventor of high quality mass-produced musical and talking devices used in millions of toys. He was granted some 21 United States Patents for his inventions. He was one of the first inductees into the Grammy Hall of Fame for his arrangement of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas recorded by Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra. Duncan arranged music for Fred Astaire, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Katharine Grayson, Johnny Green, Marie Green, Horace Heidt, Harry James, Gene Kelly, Mickey Rooney, Griff Williams and Meredith Willson.[1] He was an arranger and orchestrator for more than fifty films including The Postman Always Rings Twice. He and his fellow arrangers and orchestrators working under Georgie Stoll, Music Director, were awarded an Oscar for Best Musical Score by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for their work on Anchors Aweigh (1945), Georgie Stoll, Music Director starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. Duncan scored the film’s famous live and animated dance sequence: “The King Who Couldn’t Dance” (The Worry Song) (YouTube) with Gene Kelly and Jerry the Mouse.[2][3] He was a founding member of the American Society of Music Arrangers (ASMA) and a featured writer in its newsletters, The Score, on the subjects of Absolute Pitch and Harmony. His arrangement for the 1942 and 1947 Decca recordings of Irving Berlin‘s White Christmas performed by Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and produced by Jack Kapp is the largest selling recording of all time.[4][5] In 1974, White Christmas and its artistic team was selected as one of the first five recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.[6] |
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