Scarborough Fair
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Trad arr Eric Crees

Scarborough Fair

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Instrument: brass band (score and parts)
Grade: slightly difficult
Catalogue No: BB011
ISMN No: 9790570274635

This haunting melody, popularised by Simon and Garfunkel is here given an imaginative treatment in a popular idiom. The kernel of the arrangement is based on a track from the early 70s ground-breaking album featuring sixteen trombones Bones Galore. Eric Crees has expanded and re-scored Pete Smith's original to make a sure fire brass band crowd-pleaser.
Eric Crees
Eric Crees is one of the most distinguished trombonists, arrangers and educators in the UK. He was Co-Principal Trombone in the London Symphony Orchestra for twenty-seven years and from 2000 until 2020 was Section Principal Trombone with the Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has played on many of the most iconic film tracks, including the first four 'Star Wars', 'Superman' 1&2, 'Harry Potter' 1,2&3, 'Braveheart', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and dozens more.

Eric has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London since 1977 and in 2014 was awarded two prestigious honours, Conferment to Professor at the Guildhall and the International Trombone Association's Neil Humfeld Award for Teaching Excellence. He is internationally recognised as a conductor and arranger of brass music at the highest level and has been the Musical Director of London Symphony Orchestra Brass and the Brass Soloists of the Royal Opera House and made seven CDs with them, mainly of his own compositions, arrangements and editions. He is now Artistic Director of his own group, The Symphonic Brass of London and has released two albums with them, 'A Bridge across the Pyrenees' and 'Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks'.


For more information see the two websites: ericcrees.co.uk
thesymphonicbrassoflondon.com

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