Elmer Bernstein (1922 – 2004)

The Great Escape

concert band

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Details
For
concert band
Product Type
Score, Parts
Author / Composer
Elmer Bernstein
Arranger
Roland Smeets
Product number
245420
Difficulty Level
3
Description

The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp. The main title theme was never used in a cigarette ad campaign the way The Magnificent Seven's was, but it was one of the most memorable and widely heard marches written for a movie, and was so familiar that it became an essential ingredient of a Monty Python sketch a decade later. The rest of the score is surprisingly rich in both musical and dramatic co...