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Circus Spectacular | 
 enlarge | Creators: Karl L. King, Matthew H. Phillips
Label: Vox (Classical)
Category: Music
List Price: $6.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 28101
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 7541
UPC: 047163754128
EAN: 0047163754128
ASIN: B000001KEZ
Release Date: February 18, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Sells-Floto Triumphal March - Matthew H. Phillips, | | • | Voice of America - Matthew H. Phillips, | | • | The Home Town Boy March - Matthew H. Phillips, | | • | Wings for Peace - Matthew H. Phillips, | | • | "Loyalty " March - Matthew H. Phillips, | | • | Prestissmo Galop | | • | Emblem of Freedom | | • | Our Heritage | | • | We Stand United | | • | Glorious America | | • | The Kentucky Derby | | • | Yellowstone Trail March | | • | On the Warpath, Indian War Dance | | • | Broadway One Step or Two-Step | | • | The American Way | | • | The Joy Riders, March & Two Step | | • | Bombardier March | | • | Diplomacy March | | • | Aviation Tournament March | | • | Call to Victory March | | • | Thumbs-Up U.S. A March | | • | Step on It! March | | • | Fete Triumphal March | | • | The Victor March | | • | Mountain Trail March | | • | The Defending Circle March | | • | Canton Aero Club March | | • | Auld Lang Syne March |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great circus music August 24, 2008
B. Wenners (Aurora, CO USA)
Every year I put on a theme for our week long lake vacation. This year it was a circus theme. The music in this CD reminded me and my children of all the circus trips we had made in the past. It was a great CD with just the right amount of variety in the music.
Wonderfiul! I want more. January 19, 2008
Emmett Anglin (South Carolina)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As fine a collection of Karl King Marches and Galops as you are going to find and extemely well done by top notch studio players. I want more by these guys! Sam Pilifian headed the project which ought to tell you what sort of playing to expect.
 Neither Circus nor Spectacular, but it is Karl King. October 14, 2006
Barthbill (lowse ahnhaylayse)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having played a number of times under Karl King, I had great expectations for this CD. Alas, it was not to be. The music is there, the musicians play all the right notes and the conductor keeps time. The recording is only mediocre, of Laserlight quality, and the performance is not what I expected from what they call a "Circus Band." Indeed, the liner notes state that the band is mostly students and professionals from the Philadelphia area. In other words, a "pick up" band. And the conductor seems to have no circus experience only small town symphony experience (from the puffery in the liner notes). From listening, it would appear that he has never even heard a real circus band. Both conductor and band would not last a day at a real circus. I do have a suspicion, however, that the musicians would do better under a better conductor.
Now, if they called themselves a concert band, that would be accurate and fair, and would not have dashed my hopes, as they are OK as a concert band. But just OK.
Of course, a concert band can indeed generate all the excitement of a bona fide circus band, as Frederick Fennell so aptly demonstrated on his Mercury recordings.
Now, if you want real circus music played by a real circus band, get a Merle Evans recording.
However, having said all that, I will keep the album, as I have always been a Karl King fan, and it is fine music decently played by an OK concert band.
Great circus music August 12, 2005
William F. Koffman
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I needed some circus music to promote a fundraiser our Lion's club was having (a circus). I got the CD on time and it sounded great. I could not find this type of music anywhere else. Thanks.
Good music, mediocre playing November 18, 2001
R. E. James (Longwood, FL United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It was indeed exciting to find so many of Karl King's marches on one disc. The band's playing, however leaves a lot to be desired, as does the sound quality of the disc. The balance is poor, with a very annoying tenor sax playing loud and out-of-tune on every cut. Buy this if you are a march collector (which I am), but I do not recommend it for its entertainment value. Get the "Screamers" disc by Fennell and Eastman for a far superior set of circus marches with great playing and sound.
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