I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber ed.Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger) (1963/1965).Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962).Funiculi Funicula (as arranger) (1880/1994).Forget Me Not, O Dearest Lord (as arranger) (c.Five Dances for Five Clarinets and Band.Fantasy on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (as arranger) (1973).
Divertimento for Flute and Wind Orchestra (1998).Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (as arranger) (1653/1724/1990).Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (1995/1997).Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993).Come, Sweet Death (as transcriber arr.Clear Track Polka (as arranger) (1869/2000).Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with McAlister tr.Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as editor arr.Around the World in 80 Days: Selections (as arranger ed.Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr.Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (as transcriber arr.He left New York for Miami, Florida, in 1960, where he made his home until his death. His work as a guest conductor and clinician took him to 49 states, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia and South America, and for many years, at least eight of his works have been on the required list of music for all concert bands in Japan, where he was the most frequently performed foreign composer today. Reed was one of the nation’s most prolific and frequently performed composers. With over 250 published works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, chorus, and various smaller chamber music groups, many of which have been on the required performance lists in this country for the past 20 years, Mr. In 1966 he left this post to join the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Miami, holding a joint appointment in the Theory-Composition and Music Education departments, and to develop the unique (at the time) Music Industry degree program at that institution, of which he became director. This led, in 1955, to his accepting the post of editor at Hansen Publishing in New York. During his two years at Baylor, he also became interested in the problems of educational music at all levels, especially in the development of repertoire materials for school bands, orchestras, and choruses. It received its first performance in 1959, and was subsequently published in 1966.
His Masters thesis was the Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra, which later was to win the Luria Prize. Reed became conductor of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, at the same time completing his academic work he received his B.M. He was staff composer and arranger for both the National Broadcasting Corporation and the American Broadcating Corporation. He served as musician and arrangement during World War II in the 529th Army Air Force Band, for which he created more than 100 works, and following the war was a student of Vittorio Giannini at Juilliard. – 17 September 2005, Miami, Fla.) was an American composer, arranger, conductor and educator.īorn into a family of Austrian descent that cherished music, Alfred Reed began his musical studies at age ten on trumpet, and by high school age he was performing professionally in the Catskills at resort hotels. Alfred Reed (25 January 1921, Manhattan, N.Y.
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