Dykes - Eternal Father, Strong to Save for Brass Quintet Guilmant This music is appropriate for

This music is appropriate for very advanced performers and is about 2 1/2 minutes in length

This four minute work for advanced performers is in swing style and is fun and challenging to perform with all players getting a "kick at the can"

which has been arranged for every conceivable combination of instruments

Pachelbel's Ciacona states an opening theme followed by 22 variations

Listen to the Eastman Trombone Choir and Director Larry Zalkind perform Ralph Sauer's beautiful arrangement

Dykes - Eternal Father, Strong to Save for Brass Quintet Guilmant This music is appropriate forEternal Father is a popular hymn sung by members of the U. S., British and French Navies and is often called The Navy Hymn. The work was written in 1860 61 by two English clergymen, Rev. John Bacchus Dykes and the lyrics by Rev. William Whiting with inspiration from the Old and New Testaments. The Navy Hymn is also known as Melita. This noble music was a favorite of President Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt and was performed at the