Why do the nations so furiously rage together? Fred volunteers for military serviceĪnd suddenly “I dashed to the rescue like a hero in the silent movies I was about to get to know so well”įor behold, darkness “Fred's death surely marked the passing of an era” One's destiny decided at birth “I'll make him the best cornet player in England”.
(Harry's theme, “as if descending from the heavens”), and the timeline unfolds as follows: Using key passages from the autobiography of Harry Mortimer, On Brass as the source for the narrative, the work opens with a four-note leitmotif Complete suite also available below)Įxtracts performed by the Brighouse and Rastrick Band, conductor David King.įull recording available on War of the Worlds - The Music of Peter Graham from World of Īdditional B4 Score: £37.95 Additional A4 Score: £29.95ĭynasty takes the form of a Symphonic Poem, a musical form first introduced to a contest audience at the Crystal Palace in 1913 by Percy Fletcher in his work Labour and Love. For movements 2 and 4 see the BB Solos & Ensemble page. (Each movement of War of the Worlds is available separately allowing for a variety of "mini-suite" combinationsĮg: Movements 1,2 and 5 or 3,4 and 5 etc. The suite takes inspiration from the 1953 film script adaptation of the famous HG Wells novel and key scenes from the film are set as individual movements:īattle - mankind begin their fight for survival against the Martian war machine. The transcription for brass band was first performed by the Brighouse & Rastrick Band,Ĭonductor David King, in the Bridgewater Hall Manchester on September 8 2012.
Saxophone Orchestra and first performed by them in the Maeda Hall, Japan on June 29 2012, the composer conducting. Battle is the third movement of the suite War of the Worlds which was commissioned by the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music
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