The music from my June 15th’s “The Flower of Life I” was recorded with its premiering ensemble, The Brass Band of Central Florida under its Musical Director, Gareth Pritchard by engineer Meredith Douglas at Full Sail University’s”Audio Temple“. The band hopes to return to the studio this spring for The Flower of Life II, as well as selected arrangements for the ensemble from their director/conductor.
The score is in two parts I and II, both scored for traditional English Brass Band broken into three simultaneous septets. The November 17th session recorded only the three brass and percussion septets of the first movement, one section at a time.
The train horn and glockenspiel parts will be recorded and added to the production at a later date.
The recording final product will capture the extreme antiphonal nature of the work as heard from its center position, thus, be produced as atmos, 5.1, binuaral and stereo.

Gareth Pritchard was born in the mining village of Ynyshir in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. Began playing Cornet in the local Colliery Band in 1964 and by 1966 was the “under 12” Solo Champion of Wales. He entered Trinity College of Music, London in 1974 to study Trumpet with Norman Burgess (Principal Trumpet of the BBC Concert Orchestra), Composition with Vera Ayton and Conducting with Bernard Keefe attaining LTCL (Teacher’s Diploma) by the 3rd year and being admitted a Fellow of the College FTCL at the end of the 4th year. Gareth has come under the influence of many eminent Conductors such as Dennis Carr, Walter Hargreaves, Harry Mortimer, Roy Newsome, Major Peter Parkes and Bram Tovey. Gareth was Cornet Solo Champion of Great Britain in both 1977 and 1979, and has performed regularly as a soloist all over the world and on many radio broadcasts and Recordings. In 1991 Gareth moved to Norway as a “full time” Freelance Musician, and has conducted a band to 1st prize at the National Finals there on an unprecedented 4 occasions in 3 different divisions (including the Championship Section with Sandefjord Brass Symposium in 1998) in only 7 attempts.

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The Brass Band of Central Florida, an English style brass band. BBCF has competed regularly in the Championship Section of the North American Brass Band Championships (NABBA) and the US Open, winning NABBA in 2005 and the US Open on 4 occasions.
They have also appeared once at the British Open Brass Band Championships and three times at the Brass in Concert Championship, gaining 2nd Prize in 2011.
This organization, led by Gareth Pritchard, has worked with composer Keith Lay in the past. They were the central force, along with a choir, led by Dr. Jeffrey Redding, and an African Drum trio from UF, premiering the Mode 0 Distance Music piece “FusionFest 2022 Opening Fanfare” at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

In essence, “The Flower of Life” is not just a musical event; it represents a more expansive view of what music is; not just created for its emotional power, but to be something more: music of the spirit, music that celebrates and therefore benefits from the universal truths of geometry, space-time, form, and harmonic relationship.
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