Pop Music for Concert Band

Originally from the city of Pforzheim in Germany, the band Fool's Garden (Volker Hinkel, guitarist & Peter Freudenthaler, singer) is the only German rock band to have managed to produce a worldwide su...

The solo of this two-part composition can be played on the vibraphone as well as on the clarinet. In the first, slow part, the warm sounds of the solo instrument come into their own. The second part i...

The unforgettable song Two Worlds was performed by Phil Collins inthe Disney movie Tarzan. The film has now been transformed into asell-out musical on Broadway, which is soon to be performed in theatr...

At the beginning of the eighties trendy English boy band, Spandau Ballet, made it big with hits like True and Gold. Millions of records were sold worldwide, and the group became one of the most succes...

For Une Belle Histoire, Roland Kernen took his inspiration from the seventies French singer and composer Michel Fugain and his troop of singers and dancers known as ?Le Big Bazar?. The cheerful melodi...

For Une Belle Histoire, Roland Kernen took his inspiration from the seventies French singer and composer Michel Fugain and his troop of singers and dancers known as 'Le Big Bazar'. The cheerful melodi...

This well-known reggae song was a great hit for the Jamaican group Bob Marley and The Wailers in the live version of 1975. It was written by Bob Marley himself, but he had it attributed to a man calle...

Queen are known not only for their stylistic diversity, but also for their over-the-top theatrics during concerts and in videos. This helped give them the staying power to have hit songs for over twen...

Since 2007, British pop-singer sensation Adele has been winning one prize after another and has enjoyed unprecedented UK chart success. In December 2010, Rolling in the Deep finally propelled her into...

You Raise Me Up is a concert band arrangement of one of the most popular ballads of all time by Takashi Hoshide. Composed by Rolf Løvland, who, inspired by traditional Irish melodies, asked Irish auth...

La Bamba is actually an old folk song from South America. This happy dance tune first achieved worldwide success through the rock 'n' roll singer Ritchie Valens, however, who in 1958 gave the song his...

This 1983 hit performed by Queen became a huge success not only because of the universal meaning of the lyrics, but also because of the iconic official video. The Austrian composer and arranger Thomas...

The story of the Gipsy Kings is remarkable, and their sound - a fusion between Spanish flamenco and Cuban rumba - conquered the world in the 1980s. Amongst their most famous hits is 'Bamboleo', from 1...

Ironic is the best-known song by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. This appealing hit from the 90's, which garnered success worldwide, attracted extra attention with its charm...

Deep Purple are one of the most famous rock bands of all time. This medley is an essential piece of Concert Band repertoire. Keep on rocking with this powerful arrangement which includes Burn, Highway...

Stevie Wonder is an outstanding lyricist, composer and musician. He mixes African-American traditions with rhythm, blues and rock to soul music like no other. Songs such as You Are the Sunshine of My...

Simply the Best was first performed by the little known Bonnie Tyler in 1988, but did not gain wide-spread popularity until Tina Turner recorded it barely one year later. The song has become one of Ti...

Simply the Best was first performed by the little known Bonnie Tyler in 1988, but did not gain wide-spread popularity until Tina Turner recorded it barely one year later. The song has become one of Ti...

The Loco-motion was the hippest dance routine to hit the clubs in the 1960s. In contrast to many songwriters who write songs after a trend has taken off , singer/songwriter partners and couple Gerry G...

Encourage by his role model, David Bowie, British singersongwriter George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a dazzling and stylishly unique artist known as Boy George. Boy George founded the group Cul...

Brian May's We Will Rock You was not Queen's biggest hit when it first came out. However, looking back it has become much more than simply a successful song. It is the group's hymn, welcomed with loud...

Stand By Me, perhaps Ben E. King's greatest hit ever, was first released in 1961 as the b-side of a single, but as it soon went to number one on the R&B charts and to number one of the pop charts, the...

As with previous releases from Thriller, the seventh and last single provided yet another top ten hit in many countries in 1984. With the most ambitious and costliest video to date, Jackson set a new...