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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...

Was written at the suggestion of and as a tribute to the United States Strategic Air Command. Two editions of the Strategic Air Command March are published: the complete Concert March version, and a q...

Commissioned by the Madison Junior High Band in Abilene, Texas, conducted by Warren Faxton.

Commissioned by the Madison Junior High Band in Abilene, Texas, conducted by Warren Faxton.

Though originally composed for the pedal harpsichord, this work has long been associated with the organ. It is the grandeur and colors of that instrument which this arrangement for symphonic band stri...

Though originally composed for the pedal harpsichord, this work has long been associated with the organ. It is the grandeur and colors of that instrument which this arrangement for symphonic band stri...

Drammatico was commissioned by the Monahans High School Band, Monahans, Texas, under the direction of Dan Gibb, and was premiered under the baton of the composer.

A short four-movement symphony for band, Divergents was commissioned by and dedicated to Lambda Chapter, Kappa Kappa Psi and Psi Chapter, Tau eta Sigma at the University of Arkansas.

The work's title is taken from the last seal in the book of Revelations. The seventh seal, being a culmination of the first six, denotes the emotional program of this work. The first movement is thema...

These four French songs are based on four chansons of the 16th Century. These include: I. Troubadours, II. Solemn Ceremony, III. Petite Dance, IV. Festivals

The Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead, said by the bereaved each morning and evening for eleven months, then on each anniversary of the death thereafter. The composition was written as a memor...

The Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead, said by the bereaved each morning and evening for eleven months, then on each anniversary of the death thereafter. The composition was written as a memor...