One of the pieces I liked best playing in my middle school orchestra was "March of the Sardar" from Caucasion Sketches (Kavkazskiye Eskizi) by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. Whenever I say "Sardar", I can't help but remember clarinetist Eric Hendler saying "Sar-ah-DUR DUR DUR DUR DUR" in his (very un-PC) imitation of a retard.
I'm going to arrange the march for carillon. Interestingly, when I searched for it in my iTunes library by typing "ippo", two other pieces appeared in the search results, includ Hans Zimmer's "Following Tzipporah" from The Prince of Egypt soundtrack. (Great movie.) And to my astonishment, Zimmer's melody is almost identical to the folk-like tune of the woodwinds in the march.
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