This light hearted fun arrangement starts out in a mellow jazzy mambo - rock ballad and then goes into a sizzling hot driving mambo that will give your audience and maybe even your band dancing in their seats.

from Andrea Chanier-It has been said and wisely so that if you wish to find TRULY dramatic music look to opera. This is an essentially complete transcription of Act IV of Umberto Giordano's tragic opera ANDREA CHENIER. One night before French poet Andrea Chenier's impending execution his lover Madeleine comes to the prison at St. Lazare and wishing to die rather than live without him through bribery manages to exchange places with a young woman who is like Chenier scheduled to mount the scaffold the following day. James Curnow fully utilizes his considerable orchestration skill with this immensely powerful transcription. Well performed the ending is absolutely awe-inspiring. If yourgroup has the skill to play at this level you definitely MUST explore this significant transcription.

This exciting work reflects the panoramic beauty of the mountains deserts lakes streams and open range of the Wild Old West. It presents the rhythmic heartbeat of the early settlers and the energy they needed to survive and prosper.

Kum Ba Yah is one of the most popular and loved of all American folk songs. It is sung in places of worship around campfires and at social gatherings all over the world. This bright and happy arrangement makes use of African percussion and rhythm underneath velvety-smooth chords and flowing lines. It can also be enhanced by the use of an optional electric bass part.

Interesting counterpoint brings the minor key Ballad of John Riley to your band with style. Allowing for some good melodic playing from the tenor instruments (Trombone F Horn Tenor Saxophone) and later including the Bass Instruments in the melody each section is important in this treatment of the somber folk tune. Great vehicle for studying phrasing and controlled performance at this level!

Yiddish Rhapsody-This moving and beautiful Yiddish Rhapsody includes the songs Hine' Ma Tov Black Cherries and Why Is The Sky?”. This skillful arrangement for intermediate level concert band will add drama to your concert or special event and raise your student's awareness of the importance of basic human rights. Drawn from arrangements of Holocaust songs he has done over the years for the Washington D.C. U.S. Army Band (Pershing's Own) James L. Hosay's REMEMBRANCE helps to keep us mindful of that tragic time in our history. The three songs provide very effective contrast and the James Hosay's masterful orchestration skills are readily evident throughout. A powerful piece forconcert or contest!

You'll be a-wearin' the green with CELTIC DANCE by Douglas Court. The unmistakable Galway Piper opens the piece and through artful variation playfully comes a-visitin' now and again while original thematic material leads us on a tour of a lovely emerald musical countryside. The energetic joy of Irish dance and the internationally appealing flavor of Irish folk music come together in CELTIC DANCE to form a jewel of young band literature. Court's unerring sense of young player's abilities makes this one a pot o' gold!

This sparkling arrangement of Ding Dong Merrily On High is full of the festive sounds of bells that ring from church steeples street corners and stores throughout the holiday season! It's a vibrant work that captures the jubilant and triumphant sounds of Christmas! Wonderful!

At Fort Walton Beach (North California) you can find an Indian Temple Mound and a large collection of artifacts which is protected as a historic site. In Fort Walton Adventure the composer seeks to recreate the atmosphere that must have surrounded the prehistoric temple mound.

Kum Ba Yah is one of the most popular and loved of all American folk songs. It is sung in places of worship around campfires and at social gatherings all over the world. This bright and happy arrangement makes use of African percussion and rhythm underneath velvety-smooth chords and flowing lines. It can also be enhanced by the use of an optional electric bass part.

Instrumental Solos for the Holiday Season-This collection of familiar carols and seasonal melodies presents new material for solo performance and personal practice opportunities. The music is arranged to include many styles moods and an average range of moderate technical challenges. Titles include: We Wish You A Merry Christmas Away In A Manger Greensleeves Coventry Carol and many more.

Will the evil villain steal away with the beautiful youngheroine? Can the train robbery be stopped? Will the sherrif’sposse capture the thieving band of cattle rustlers? Will ourhero find true love? For the answer to all these questions be sure to tune in to Masters of the Silent Screen. Featuringarrangements of authentic music written to accompanysilent movies and including a free videotape your bandbecomes the “Mighty Wurlitzer” as it accompanies classicscenes from silent movies in Mike Hannickel’s innovativeMasters of the Silent Screen.

Carmine Pastore's simple hymn A Call for Peace is dedicated to the year 2000. In his lyrical work A Call for Peace the composer expresses his hope that with the turn of the millenium the global community will strive to achieve world peace.

You'll be a-wearin' the green with CELTIC DANCE by Douglas Court. The unmistakable Galway Piper opens the piece and through artful variation playfully comes a-visitin' now and again while original thematic material leads us on a tour of a lovely emerald musical countryside. The energetic joy of Irish dance and the internationally appealing flavor of Irish folk music come together in CELTIC DANCE to form a jewel of young band literature. Court's unerring sense of young player's abilities makes this one a pot o' gold!

Exotic! Mysterious Middle-Eastern modalities colorful orchestration and a stunning chase combine to make James Hosay's PERSIS (the Greek word for Persia) a very special offering for your next concert. An enchanting and poignant Oboe solo love theme (cued for Flute) is surely one of the most beautiful passages written for concert band in quite some time. PERSIS will be one of your band's most memorable performing experiences. Don't miss the opportunity to program something truly different.

The circus is in town! Come and join the fun as we present your band in a circus extravaganza. A Day at the Circus takes you on a musical tour where you will meet clowns who will make you laugh breathtaking acrobats lion tamers and even the Human Cannonball. So sit back relax and enjoy the show.

Three engaging carols unite in this novel Christmas setting from Paul Curnow. The beautiful “Coventry Carol” the resounding “First Noel” and the joyful “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” are skillfully interwoven to make this arrangement fit anywhere in your young band’s winter program. It even works as a Christmas concert finale!Carefully controlled ranges and rhythms and simple modulations make A COVENTRY CHRISTMAS accessible to most young bands and entirely appropriate percussion writing keeps everyone involved during rehearsals.Let these cherished carols ring out at your winter concert this year!

Instrumental Solos for the Holiday Season-This collection of familiar carols and seasonal melodies presents new material for solo performance and personal practice opportunities. The music is arranged to include many styles moods and an average range of moderate technical challenges. Titles include: We Wish You A Merry Christmas Away In A Manger Greensleeves Coventry Carol and many more.

The descriptive piece draws its inspiration from the American west the music first depicts a scene of wide open spaces and the quiet landscape of the painted desert. The second section is more animated in character. You will hear references to the cowboy era complete with gunshots and the sound of the rodeo.

Everyone loves the NUTCRACKER! The immense and unprecedented popularity of this ballet seems to be without limit. Now your Grade 1 band can experience the joy of playing the themes they know so well. This extremely flexible arrangement can be used in so many ways!! Play it all or leave out selected movements. Use the optional tag ending or skip it. Due to the flexibility of this arrangement THE NUTCRACKER is great for programming early in the school year (while you're still discovering the capabilities of this year's band). Also notice the suggested changes in the Notes to the Director which make this arrangement more flexible yet! You just can't lose with MikeHannickel's arrangement of Tchaikowky's NUTCRACKER SUITE.