R. Mark Rogers

Commissioned by the Kansas City Youth Symphony, this work was intended to serve as a major contribution to the celebration of the orchestra's 40th anniversary. The wind band version of the symphony wa...

Composed while Bernhard Heiden served as Assistant Bandmaster for the 445th US Army band during World War II, this first-ever print edition has been carefully edited and adapted with modern instrument...

Folk Tune (also known as Sheep Shearing Song) was originally composed for piano by Eugene Goossens. This setting for symphonic band by Percy Grainger bears the hallmark ingenious application of instru...

Jules Vern's popular 1873 adventure novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, has inspired countless readers, as well as two motion pictures. The first of these, produced by Michael Todd and released in...

The iconic tune Autumn Leaves les Feuilles Mortes by Hungarian-born composer Joseph Kosma hardly requires an introduction to jazz afficionados. The music was originally set to French lyrics by Jacques...

This publication marks the first edition of the Floyd Werle classic arrangement for modern band, including a full score. Edited by R. Mark Rogers. (Grade 3.5)

I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a popular song which has become a timeless favorite, spanning across generations. With music by George Cory and lyric by Douglass Cross, it became most well-known a...

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...

Leroy Anderson was very versatile in the realm of light classics, composing music depicting a ticking clock (The Syncopated Clock), a sleigh ride (Sleigh Ride), a typewriter (The Typewriter), and this...

Leroy Anderson was very versatile in the realm of light classics, composing music depicting a ticking clock (The Syncopated Clock), a sleigh ride (Sleigh Ride), a typewriter (The Typewriter), and this...

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...

This popular tune from the Beef commercials expertly arranged here for Concert Band by R. Mark Rogers.

Danzón Cubano was composed in the fall of 1942, as a birthday piece to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the League of Composers. In its original form for two pianos, it was first played by Leonard Be...

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...

The second movement of Shostakovich's masterful and subversive Fifth Symphony, written as his career as a composer in communist Russia teetered in the balance, could suggest a barely literate composer...

Initially commissioned by Ida Rubenstein as a ballet work initially, Maurice Ravel's BOLERO has become his most popular and often-performed orchestra composition, which was a surprise to the composer...

Initially commissioned by Ida Rubenstein as a ballet work initially, Maurice Ravel's BOLERO has become his most popular and often-performed orchestra composition, which was a surprise to the composer...

Carnival of Venice was originally written for saxophonist Adolphe Mayeur, who was a student of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the instrument. The solo part is edited by Fred Hemke and the band accompani...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Variations on a Theme by Glinka" was written for solo oboe accompanied by wind band. This rather unusual combination is due to the fact that at the time of its composition,...