Reflections on the Last Post
by Howard J. Buss
Clarinet - Sheet Music

Clarinet and band (or wind ensemble) - Grade 5

SKU: B7.B479BS

Composed by Howard J. Buss. 21st Century. Score only. Brixton Publications #B479BS. Published by Brixton Publications (B7.B479BS).

8.5x11 inches.

Reflections on the Last Post for clarinet and band (or wind ensemble) by Howard J. Buss was inspired by The Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium. It honors the thousands of soldiers who died to free Belgium from the Germans in WWI. The Last Post Ceremony was first held on July 1928 and has been performed every night since November 11, 1929 at the Menin Gate Memorial, except during the years of the German occupation of Ypres from May 20, 1940 to September 6, 1944. During the occupation the ceremony was continued at the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England. The composition develops the "Last Post" bugle call, which is performed near the beginning of the ceremony. The work also has stirring sections signifying the youthfulness and vitality of those who fought and died on the Ypres battlefields.