R. Mark Rogers

Berlioz considered it very important that listeners should understand the program of the cycle of five movements which made make up his most famous 'Symphonie Fantastique', so he insisted that audienc...

Percy Grainger's extraordinary scoring skills permeate this classic, carefree work for symphonic band. Children's March: 'Over the Hills and Far Away', originally a piano solo, was orchestrated by the...

Grainger's 'Youthful Suite' for orchestra was compiled in the 1940's. He felt that movement 1, NORTHERN MARCH to be 'North-English or Scottish' in character owing to its melodic material and rhythms....

Included within this first-ever setting for band alone of THE MANY MOODS OF CHRISTMAS, SUITE THREE, are What Child Is This, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, concluding...

Included within this first-ever setting for band alone of THE MANY MOODS OF CHRISTMAS, SUITE THREE, are What Child Is This, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, concluding...

Morton Gould's setting of JINGLE BELLS calls to mind the quiet sounds of a horse-drawn sleigh passing through newly fallen snow. Beginning softly, as if the sleigh is approaching the listener from a d...

Morton Gould's setting of JINGLE BELLS calls to mind the quiet sounds of a horse-drawn sleigh passing through newly fallen snow. Beginning softly, as if the sleigh is approaching the listener from a d...

This stately, pastoral work incorporates the chorus of O Come All Ye Faithful (or Adeste Fideles) into the writing. The original melody by Yon is rather remarkable in its elegant beauty and sounds tim...

Also titled 'Der alte Brummbar' (The Old Grumbling Bear). By Julius Fucik, justifiably called the 'Czech March King', this 'polka comique' came to the attention of the editor when he began searching f...

Dance Suite, completed at Radvány (northern Hungary) in August 1923, was composed for a festival concert held on November 19, 1923 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the two cities of Buda and Pes...

An American Pops classic in its original scoring, this work is a fun and excellent feature for the percussion section, sure to get a laugh out of both the musicians and the audience. 3.2+EH.2+BCl.2+CB...

An American Pops classic in its original scoring, this work is a fun and excellent feature for the percussion section, sure to get a laugh out of both the musicians and the audience. 3.2+EH.2+BCl.2+CB...

The Merry King' is a folk song from Sussex, England. Percy Grainger originally transcribed the melody in 1905, sketched for chorus within the year after, then set it for piano or small orchestra betwe...

This work expresses the composers impressions on the scenery and people of his native land, Australia. The scoring is arranged so that the lead male and female vocal lines can optionally be played by...

This is movement No. 2 from the suite 'In a Nutshell' scored for symphonic band by Mark Rogers. No actual folk songs or any other popular tunes were used in the suite, according to the composer. The p...

An early work written in 1908 while the composer was still studying with Rimsky-Korsakov, 'Fireworks' is dedicated to his teacher's daught Nadia and her husband Maximilian Steinberg, and gave the youn...

Strauss took the title 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' from the highly controversial book of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche for this forward-looking tone-poem. This piece, although written in a passio...

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826) grew up in a musical family that longed for him to be a musical prodigy like is relation (by marriage), W.A. Mozart. As a young man, he met famed clarinetist Heinric...

Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of Irish musical heritage: With "Irish Tune From County Derry," the renowned Southern Music Company brings a true masterpiece of wind band literature directly t...