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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Christmas Brass Trio
Arr. Eddie Lewis
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Christmas Brass Trio is an arrangement I did for my brass trio’s Nutcracker Market gig. The video below is from that performance. This was our second time doing that gig, and last time all we had were some stock Christmas carol arrangements that I had bought online. Which are mostly nice, but there weren’t any Christmas songs in the batch.
Most of the arrangements I wrote for this gig were popular Christmas songs, which I’ll be publishing next year, probably. But I thought it apropos to include Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy since it was the Nutcracker Market. 🙂
I have to tell you that I enjoyed writing this arrangement. There’s something oddly satisfying about taking a piece written for full orchestra and “orchestrating” it down to three parts. I enjoy those types of challenges.
That said, some orchestral pieces cannot be arranged that way. There are a number of musical factors that can prevent a orchestral piece from being worked that way, and with that type of composition, you will never have a truly working arrangement, scaled down like this to only three parts.
Fortunately, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy doesn’t have any of those musical factors. So I was able to make it work.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Brass Trio Performance Video
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy brass trio is one of the pieces we performed with my brass trio at the Nutcracker Market. This video is from that performance. This video features myself on trumpet, Ryan Rongone on trombone, and Dave Kirk on tuba.
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