Fanfare for Common Ground

For Brass and Percussion

Fanfare for Common Ground on Common Ground

United States Air Force Band of the Golden West
Major Joseph Hansen, Commander and Conductor

2023 Honorable Mention for The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award

2023 National Finalist for The American Prize in Wind Ensemble Composition

Premiere: Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, Felipe Moreles-Torres, conductor - Smale Riverfront Park, Cincinnati, OH, May 22, 2022

Video Production: MSgt Patrick Brush, USAF Band of the Golden West

PROGRAM NOTES

Fanfare for Common Ground evokes the simple and enduring ideals of equality, unity, and shared humanity to which our nation aspires. It seeks to inspire hope that we will arise together as one to overcome the persistent, societal injustices that conflict with these ideals.

This fanfare was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West. It is dedicated with gratitude to all who have sacrificed in pursuit of these ideals and to those who will yet lead us to achieve them.

3 minutes | Brass & Percussion (4.3.3.1 / Timp. 2 Perc.) | 2020

Commissioned: United States Air Force Band of the Golden West

Broadcast Premiere: Classical Discoveries, WPRB Princeton University, December 2022.

Fanfare for Common Ground and Unum (Brass Quintet) are available on Common Ground (2022 double album)

United States Air Force Band of the Golden West
Major Joseph Hansen, Commander and Conductor

Common Ground (double album) is available from the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West.

To request a copy of this album, please contact the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West directly: