fanfare for the common man
It’s 1942 and the world is at war. Eugene Goossens, who was at the time the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, commissioned a fanfare from Copland as a part of his initiative to have a fanfare for each concert of the 1942-43 season, to honor all the people taking part in WWII. Suggested instrumentation was brass and percussion, and suggested duration was around 2 minutes. Many names were considered for the piece, and Copland ultimately decided on Fanfare for the Common Man, partly inspired by Henry A. Wallace’s 1942 speech proclaiming the dawning of the “Century of the Common Man”. Of all the 18 fanfares written for Goossens’ initiative, only Copland’s remains in the standard repertoire.
The mix is predominantly main mics. Trombones and the tuba are seated in the middle.
There’s a soft multi-band compressor on each bus (Horns, Trumpets, Low Brass) with some tape saturation on the master channel.
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