Processional for World Peace by David Uber
The Augustana College Brass Choir
Harold E. Krueger, director

The Processional for World Peace, was commissioned for the 1992 Peace Prize Forum, is a three-part work with an original introduction (fanfare) and final grand processional and final fanfare. The lengthy center section is made up of national music from the six countries represented at the 1992 Peace Prize Forum: United States, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Israel and Egypt. The work is written so that it can accommodate a procession of various lengths but always with a constant concern for the ethnic characteristics of the various countries represented in the Forum.

 

Dr. David Uber

David Uber is a leading American composer, whose works for brass, woodwind and percussion are played extensively around the world. His colorful career in music ranges from award-winning composer to world class trombonist, college professor to band director. Prominent artists, corporations and universities have commissioned works by Uber. 

Dr. Uber was the former principal trombone of the New York Ballet Company orchestra at Lincoln Center and served as the former director of the Princeton University Symphonic Band for ten years. He was professor of music at The College of New Jersey (formerly known as Trenton State College) for thirty-three years and was recently awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of Music by that institution. Born in Princeton, Illinois, he has lived in Wyoming, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Vermont. After his graduation from Carthage College and receiving a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Uber served four years in the United States Navy Band and then continued his studies at Columbia University where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Education degrees. He has been a member of the faculty at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan where he was the Director of Ensemble Music.