New Sounds for Concert Band

The theme tune from the action movie Mission: Impossible, starring Tom Cruise, is a great example of film music that takes on a life of its own, becoming even more popular than its film. The melody fr...

This is best known as the theme from Rocky, the 1997 smash hitfor composer, conductor and Oscar winner Bill Conti. The Japanesearranger Naohiro Iwai has taken this exciting piece and made it intoa sti...

Ennio Morricone has written over 500 scores for fi lm and TV and is one of the most famous composers in the world. The Japanese arranger Ritsu Ono compiled a medley with popular and less popular songs...

Who doesn't know the famous Disney fairytale 'Cinderella'? Not only are the fantastic visuals in the animation movie impressive, the beautiful songs are too. Eiji Suzuki made a medley of Bibbidi Bobbi...

Pirates of the Caribbean Medley'is a fun medley featuring the most popular melodies from the first two Pirates of the Caribbean films. Ideal for concert performance, take your audience on this excitin...

The Greatest Showman is one of the biggest movie successes of recent years. This spectacular arrangement by Takashi Hoshide is in four separate movements, allowing you to make your own selection at yo...

Glenn Miller war ein amerikanischer Big-Band-Musiker, Arrangeur, Komponist und Bandleader der Swing-Ära. Er gehörte von 1939 bis 1943 zu den erfolgreichsten Musikern und leitete eine der bekanntesten...

Cheek To Cheek, I Get A Kick Out Of You, Everybody Loves Somebody, I've Got You Under My Skin and My Way together form the Frank Sinatra Hits Medley. Frank Sinatra's songs are timeless classics and th...

Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington's influence on the swing era as musician, bandleader and composer is unparalleled. His arrangement of his own composition It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Sw...

Mit dem Titel Mozart's Greatest Hits! verspricht der Toshio Mashima nicht zu viel. Mit Themen aus fünf der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Mozartthemen, verpackt in ein meisterliches Arrangement für Bla...

T-Square is a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1978. They became famous in the late 70s and early 80s, amongst other Japanese fusion bands. One of their most popular songs is "Omens of Lov...

Here is your chance for some audience participation within your concert program. The big Summer 'hit' of 1995 was the Bayside Boys with their version of a modern Spanish song. Can you remember the mov...

The Broadway musical The Sound of Music achieved worldwide fame through the brilliant 1965 film adaptation starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Naohiro Iwai has incorporated some of the mus...

La musica leggendaria di uno dei gruppi rock più famosi di sempre è conosciuta in tutto il mondo. Gli arrangiamenti di Masamichi Amano sono alla portata di tutti e il suo repertorio include i successi...

La musica leggendaria di uno dei gruppi rock più famosi di sempre è conosciuta in tutto il mondo. Gli arrangiamenti di Masamichi Amano sono alla portata di tutti e il suo repertorio include i successi...

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...

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...

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...

This song, which was first released in 1979 by the group The Village People, began its worldwide triumph in 1993 in the dance version of the Pet Shop Boys, through the discotheques, but also through t...

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is a song by The Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (often called the 'White Album'). Although credited to Lennon McCartney, the song was written solely by Paul McCartney. Th...

Prior to the second world war Harry James was a 'name'. In 1939 this trumpet player/composer founded his own orchestra with which he undertook a series of successful tours. Naohiro Iwai wrote this sol...

Hallelujah! begins with the exalted sounds of the original, but... then it changes into the lively arrangement by Naohiro Iwai - swinging musical fireworks. The modern twist to this religious classic...

The tender ballad Killing Me Softly with His Song was written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel in 1971, for de American singer Lori Lieberman. She was very impressed with a performance by the then sti...