Concert Pieces for Concert Band

Based on a Faroese folk dance tune collected in 1905, Faeroe Island Danceis Grainger's final work for wind band, completed in 1954. The full title of the tune he incorporates is Let's Dance Gay in Gre...

Vranjanka (pronounced VRAHN-yahn-kah, the title means "From Vranje," a town in southern Serbia) is loosely based on the traditional folksong "Šano Dušo". The melody is extant in two versions, one in 7...

While Music Director and House Composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Nigel Hess wrote music for over twenty productions. Hess has taken music from three works to form a 12-minute suite called Sh...

Written for the feature film starring Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith, directed by Charles Dance, Nigel Hess's score has become a favourite with concert audiences and radio listeners. The compos...

Another World's Hell is inspired by a passage in Aldous Huxley's classic 1932 science-fiction novel Brave New World, which describes in unusually close detail the music that is being played at a dance...

Another World’s Hell is inspired by a passage in Aldous Huxley’s classic 1932 science-fiction novel Brave New World, which describes in unusually close detail the music that is being played at a dance...

One of the best-known Latin standards of all time! Johnnie has done a great job of adapting this popular song while maintaining an authentic Latin feel.

An exciting work that's alive with dazzling brass and musical challenges! Your band will enjoy the musical rewards from performing this outstanding piece. A program favorite of many fine symphonic ban...

Written in a romantic/heroic style, this impressive overture from Rossano Galante features sweeping and lush melodies along with brilliant brass fanfares and woodwind flourishes. For the mature ensemb...

Paul Creston was one of the most performed composers of the 1940s and '50s, and his music remains important and relevant today. His unique rhythmic and harmonic style is apparent in Five Little Dances...

The Wishing Well paints a musical portrait of a young child approaching a well and making a wish. The music ebbs and flows, utilizing solo instruments as well as the full ensemble, describing the wate...

According to legend, Tolenas Springs, in Solano County, CA was once known as The Land of the Healing Waters due to the restorative powers of the water. This beautiful descriptive work begins with a sl...

This exciting work from Rossano Galante takes us on a musical journey through the eyes of a fearless feline, the jaguar. The composer uses a driving ostinato under a dark, melodic theme to portray the...

Das ganze Leben besteht aus Veränderung. Manchmal kommen Veränderungen schleichend, kaum bemerkt, und manchmal sind sie, mit viel Reibung verbunden, plötzlich da. Egal wie - das Leben ist immer spanne...

Das ganze Leben besteht aus Veränderung. Manchmal kommen Veränderungen schleichend, kaum bemerkt, und manchmal sind sie, mit viel Reibung verbunden, plötzlich da. Egal wie - das Leben ist immer spanne...