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Arete' by Glenn Martin (b. 1946)
For: Tennessee Tech Trombone Choir Dr. Joshua Hauser Director
Glenn Martin is a graduate of Tennessee Technological University. He currently teaches trombone, orchestration, and theory courses at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, and maintains an active schedule as a composer, arranger, clinician, and jazz trombonist. His compositions and/or arrangements have been performed by the United States Marine Band, The Modern Jazz Tuba Project, The Tennessee All Mid-State Jazz Band, and by school and college groups throughout the U.S. He has had pieces published by CPP/Belwin-Warner Brothers, R.B.C. Music, The T.U.B.A. Press, and Jazz Anyone Publications.
Arete' was premiered by the TTU Trombone Ensemble at the 2007 Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington D.C. "When I was asked to do this piece for the TTU Trombone Ensemble, the changes were some I had been working with for a good while. As in most jazz pieces, the form is theme and variations. The challenge on Arete' was to write a composition for a large jazz trombone group with no rhythm section.
Arete' is a classical Greek word meaning, "always striving to do your best in all areas of your life." --Notes by Glenn Martin