William G. Harbinson

Engelberg Variations

Engelberg Variations was composed for the Hibriten High School Band in Lenoir, North Carolina and is based on the hymn, 'When In Our Music God Is Glorified.' It opens with a flourish of activity from the brass and percussion. This gives way to the statement of the theme set in a lovley woodwind chorale featuring flutes and oboes. A lyrical trumpet solo takes the band to a soaring tutti statement of the theme which gets interrupted by a percussion-filled staccato variation. Fragments of the theme are then heard in fun variations juxtaposed against the original theme in augmentation. Engelberg Variations is destined to become a classic!