Theme and Fantasia Armand Russell Born June 23, 1932, Seattle, Washington Instrumentation: Symphonic Band Duration: 8 minutes Composed: 1950 The composer writes, “Theme and Fantasia is based on a simple and tranquil theme. The fantasia consists of a series of variant sections evolving from this main theme. In the first section, the variation is given to the high solo brass. In the sections following, the music becomes successively aggressive, vigorous, and expressive until th