Our Band Heritage Recordings
(Last Updated: August 21, 2008)

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Volume 22

"Kaleidoscope"

A Collage of Cailliet Classics

The Veterans' March - Gabriel Pares/Cailliet
Overture from "Nabucco" - Giuseppe Verdi/Cailliet
The "little Fugue" in G Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach/Cailliet
Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" - Richard Strauss/Cailliet
Le Voltigeur - Gabriel Pares/Cailliet
Musetta's Waltz from "La Boheme" - Giacomo Puccini/Cailliet
Carnaval for Symphonic Band - Lucien Cailliet
One Fine Day from "Madame Butterfly" - Giacomo Puccini/Cailliet
Humoresque - Anton Dvorak/Cailliet
Lady of Spain - Tolchard Evans/Cailliet
Pop Goes the Weasel (dedicated to the Allentown Band) - traditional/arr. Cailliet
Finlandia - Jean Sibelius/Cailliet

Lucien Cailliet (1891 - 1985), served as Associate Conductor of The Allentown Band from 1934 until 1969. The renowned composer and arranger studied at several French music conservatories before graduating from the Dijon Conservatory at age twenty-two. He also received a degree from the National Conservatory in Paris. He was a bandmaster in the French Army and, in 1915, he toured the United States with the French Army Band.

In 1919, Cailliet joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as a clarinetist, saxophonist, and arranger, where he worked closely with Leopold Stokowski. In 1923, at age thirty-two, Cailliet became an American citizen and continued to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra while attending graduate school at the Philadelphia Musical Academy. After receiving his Doctor of Music Degree in 1937, he moved to California to teach at the Universityof Southern California. After teaching there for seven years, he decided to devote his time to guest conducting and composing film scores. He published more than 140 compositions and arrangements, including many for symphonic band. Cailliet wrote or orchestrated the scores for twenty-five films, the most notable being the soundtrack for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. His popular and clever set of variations on “Pop Goes the Weasel” is dedicated to The Allentown Band

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