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Concert Band (SCORE) - Grade 5 SKU: HL.4006440 Composed by Philip Sparke. Anglo Music Concert Band. Concert. Hardcover. Duration 335 seconds. Anglo Music Press #AMP 487-010. Published by Anglo Music Press (HL.4006440). UPC: 888680989996.North Hills Fantasy was commissioned by the North Hills High School Bands, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (director: Len Lavelle) as part of a commissioning programme that has run since 1965--the longest of its kind in the USA. The work opens with a reflective, unaccompanied solo for alto saxophone which develops into a chorale for horns and saxes. This is taken up by the trumpets and subsides to a change of key and mood, with highly decorated folk-like solos for clarinet, bassoon and saxes. These solos build to a climax for full band, which heralds a triumphant return of the horn chorale, accompanied by florid woodwind figuration. But the mood soon winds down; fragments of earlier melodies return calmly to peacefully close the work.