Harold Laurence Walters (September 29, 1918 in Gurdon, Arkansas — October 22, 1984 in Hollywood, Florida)[1] was an American composer. He also used the pseudonym Fred L. Frank.
He began playing cornet at the age of eight and began taking music lessons. During his five years with the US Navy Band as a tuba player and arranger, he completed his undergraduate studies at the College Conservatory of Music (CCM) of the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, under Nadia Boulanger among others. He also studied at the American University in Washington, D.C. and at the Washington College of Music, where he received his doctorate in 1943.
He later worked as a conductor and composer in Washington and New York City for theaters, film and various orchestras, including the well-known orchestra of Sigmund Romberg. After 1947 he was associated with the music publisher Rubank, Inc. as a composer, arranger, and editor.
His oeuvre includes around 1,500 compositions and arrangements as well as instrumental methods. He was versatile and composed in many musical styles.
He has conducted wind bands and orchestras all over the world. When you asked him what kind of groups they were, he would answer: "[T]he smallest was a 9-piece circus band and the largest was the 12,800-piece massed band at the University of Michigan."[2]
Works
editWorks for concert band
edit- 1947 Badinage for Brasses
- 1949 Copa Cabana
- 1950 Deep River Rhapsody
- 1951 Dixieland Revel, March
- 1951 Latin American March
- 1951 Sound and Fury
- 1951 Forty Fathoms Solo for Eb Tuba
- 1952 A Hot Time in the Brasses Tonight!
- 1952 TV Suite
- 1953 The Christmas Suite
- 1953 King size
- 1954 La Mascarada
- 1955 American Folk Suite
- 1955 Viva Paulo!
- 1957 Leetonia Overture for Band
- 1957 Three Scenes
- 1960 Concertante Solo for BBb Tuba
- 1961 Civil War Suite
- 1962 Spiritual Contrasts
- 1962 He's got the whole world medley
- 1962 I'm on my Way
- 1963 Hootenanny Folk Festival for Band
- 1964 Trumpet Filigree for Trumpet and band
- 1966 Jamaican Folk Suite
- 1967 Duty Honor, Country for Narrator and band
- 1970 Instant Concert
- 1971 Japanese Folk Suite
- 1972 Bands around the World
- 1975 Country and Western
- 1980 Suite Americana
- Brasses to the Fore, March
References
edit- ^ Camus, Raoul F. (November 9, 2009). "Walters, Harold L(aurence)". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2084082. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ William H. Rehrig (1991). Paul E. Bierley (ed.). The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. Composers and Their Music. Vol. 2: O–Z. Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press. pp. 801–802. ISBN 0-918048-08-7.
- Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan (2010). Das Blasmusik-Lexikon. Vol. 5. Kraichtal: HeBu-Musikverlag. pp. 792 f. ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5.