Download Caesar Giovannini - Raleigh Concert Band

Caesar Giovannini
(b. 26 February 1925, Chicago, Illinois)
Composer and pianist, educated at the Chicago Conservatory (Bachelor/Master of
Music degrees) and a pianist in the United States Navy Band in Washington DC (1945-1946). He joined NBC in
Chicago as a staff pianist (1949-1956), and ABC in Chicago in 1958. During the years 1956 and 1957 he was the music
director of the “Kukla, Fran and Olie” television show. Joining ASCAP in 1957, his chief musical collaborator was
Wayne Robinson. His instrumental compositions include "El Toredo" and "Brazilian Polka". Giovannini moved to Los
Angeles in 1959 and is currently active as a free-lance pianist and composer for motion picture and television films.
“Overture in B-Flat”
Overture in B-Flat was written in 1966 and is a spirited composition written in a contemporary manner. Although
there are several time signature changes during the work, it remains in the same tempo throughout. The opening sounds
are those of energetic brass fanfares answered by legato woodwind passages. This is followed by a brief developmental
section which ends in a transition to the original theme and a dramatic conclusion.
This work was begun as a composition for a television program that was later scrapped. It became the work we have
today as an outstanding composition for symphonic band.