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Richard Hayman (1920-2014) had a very successful career as chief music arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra, an association that lasted over 50 years, and also served as a pops conductor for various...

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), ever-popular in the concert hall for his light orchestral pieces, found a great musical ally in the Boston Pops Orchestra under its director, Arthur Fiedler. Premiering man...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) longest work at almost an hour, the complete one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloé was described by the composer as a "symphonie choregraphique" (choreographic symphony). Ravel b...

Walter S. Hartley (1927-2016), whose works for saxophone and low brass significantly expanded the repertoire available for those instruments, wrote the QUARTET CONCERTO for SATB saxophones in 1992 for...

Written between 1914 and 1917, Gustav Holst was initially inspired to compose THE PLANETS based on a conversation he had about astrology while on holiday in Spain with some friends in 1913. Intrigued...

The Three-Cornered Hat is a two-act ballet by Manuel de Falla that was commissioned by famed ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and premiered in 1919. Incorporating Spanish dance rather than classical...

AMERICAN PATROL was originally written for piano by Tin Pan Alley composer Frank White Meacham in 1885. An arrangement for wind band was published in 1891. Glen Miller released a 78 single of the marc...

Instantly recognizable from the Warner Brothers film Casablanca, As Time Goes By has become one of the most beloved tunes of the film world. It is a true classic. Instrumentation: 3.1+EH.2+BCl.2: 4.3....

The Universal film Going My Way was released during the years of World War II. The predominant musical style was swing, particularly from large dance bands. This Mike Lewis arrangement captures the st...

This flute feature may be performed with one, two, or three flutes. This merry song speaks - and sings - for itself! Instrumentation: 3.2.2.2: 3Sax(AAT;opt): 4.3.3.0: Perc(1-2): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set)...

A brilliant showpiece for four clarinets in the spirit of Bugler's Holiday. Instrumentation: 2+Picc.2.2.2: 3sax(AAT.opt.): 4.3.3.1: Perc(2): Pno(opt): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set).

Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma) is a four-movement symphonic poem for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. The piece, which depicts pine trees in four locations in Rome...

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...

FESTE ROMANE (ROMAN FESTIVALS), P 157 is a tone poem in four movements completed in 1928 by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936). It is the last of his three tone poems about Rome, following FOUNTAINS OF ROM...

Written by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) sometime in 1733-1734, the Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C, BWV 1061 appears to have been originally written for only the two solo harpsichords. The string parts we...

Léo Delibes' (1836-1891) Coppélia (1870) is a comic ballet that tells the story of a sinister doctor who has made a beautiful, life-sized dancing doll (the title character), a young man who becomes in...

Composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in the spring of 1883, SCHERZO CAPRICCIOSO IN D-FLAT MAJOR, Op. 66/B. 131 is a favorite of the concert hall not only for its colorful humor but also for its rest...

This Critical Edition by Clinton Nieweg of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) is a result of a collaboration among several major orchestras. This corrected edition succeeds in addressing the n...

Written in 1774 while he was in Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) Missa Brevis in F Major, K. 192 (186f) is written for the following: Org (in sc): Str (2-2-0-1-1 in set): Solo SATB: Mx...

When Karl Traugott Queisser, trombonist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, asked Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to compose a trombone concerto for him, the composer declined due to time restraints. The task we...

Tom Kennedy includes arrangements for full orchestra of the following patriotic songs: America (G; Henry Carey); America the Beautiful (C; Samuel A. Ward); Battle Hymn of the Republic (Bb; William Ste...

Richard Hayman (1920-2014) had a very successful career as chief music arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra, an association that lasted over 50 years, and also served as a pops conductor for various...

Composed in 1951, THE PHANTOM REGIMENT is an orchestral miniature by Leroy Anderson (1908-1975). Writing about the work, he explained that it depicts a company approaching from far off, then going bac...

AMERICAN PATROL was originally composed for piano by Tin Pan Alley composer Frank White Meacham in 1885. An arrangement for wind band was published in 1891. Glen Miller released a 78 single of the mar...

Also known as "FARE THEE WELL" and "10,000 MILES", THE TURTLE DOVE is an English folk ballad. First published in John Payne Collier's A Book of Roxburghe Ballads in 1710, the song depicts the farewell...