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Morton Gould's wide-ranging output integrated jazz, blues, gospel, country- and-western and folk elements
into masterfully orchestrated and
imaginatively conceived compositions
that have achieved immense popularity
in the USA and internationally. His
Saint Lawrence Suite, commissioned
for the opening of the great Saint
Lawrence Power Project, is the only
original work for wind band ever
nominated for a GRAMMY® Award
for composition. The 'West Point'
Symphony, Gould's only wind-band
work in this genre, has long been a
cornerstone of the repertoire. Jericho
Rhapsody thrillingly depicts Joshua's
famous Biblical battle, won by the
awesome sound of trumpets. Derivations was composed for legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, and Fanfare for Freedom was, like Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, commissioned by Eugene Goossens as a patriotic
concert-opener during World War II.