Hail The Conquering Hero

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Five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema."

A soldier who is discharged from the army for hay fever is welcomed home as a brave war hero.

This version of the famous Hail the Conquering Hero opens with a solo, gradually adds voices and builds in dynamic, then the sound drops to a solo in the lowest part which starts the building again.

Instrumentation: Trumpet Trio Hail the Conquering Hero, from 'Judas Maccabaeus' [Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63. No. 58, Chorus: See, the conqu'ring hero comes]