During the 1980’s the English super-group Supertramp were hardly ever out of the charts. This medley by Andre Waignein includes their hits: The Logical song Breakfast in America and It’s Raining Again.

During the 1980’s the English super-group Supertramp were hardly ever out of the charts. This medley by Andre Waignein includes their hits: The Logical song Breakfast in America and It’s Raining Again.

Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra is used in this great medley to introduce the King of Rock and Roll. Just imagine him walking onto the Las Vegas stage and then put your whole heart into performing three of his best known hits. An extra touch of entertainment can be added with members of your band singing the chorus to CC Rider. Everyone will love this tribute to the legendary performer.

Rock About is an eight part work in which parts can be distributed according to the players available. The light pieces are full of joy and are sure to make your audience want to get up and dance!

La bagatelle est une courte pièce instrumentale au propos modeste généralement destinée au clavier (clavecin ou piano). André Waignein a composé trois bagatelles pour Orchestre Junior. Ces compositions légères de caractère développent des lignes mélodiques colorées et contrastées fluides et puissantes sereines et dynamiques.

The story of the origin of Diagram for Symphonic Band is a curious one. André Waignein was enjoying a meal together with his great friend Jean-Marie Vivier - representative director of l'Oreal Belgilux and the same man who made the performance of the famous Cantate aux Etoiles with 750 performers possible. Jean Plaquet an appreciated associate of both gentlemen was also present.As an acknowledgement André Waignein wanted to dedicate a composition to the band where Mr. Vivier has been chairman for 20 years. In connection with this André Waignein was supposed to receive some extra information about the 120 years old history of this band which has always been led by a memberof the Vivier family. In a flash this history was presented : using a diagram Mr. Vivier drew the power-lines of this more than 100 year old band.And of course the title was found ! The only thing left to do was for André Waignein to transform this diagram into music.

This classic pop song by Chicago is now avilable for brass band in the Pop classics series. The atmospheric ballad with it’s swinging finale will bring a touch of emotion to any concert.

Festivity as its title indicates can be used at any celebratory occasion. Whether on the stage or hitting the streets Festivity will delight audiences everywhere. A piece like this is a must in any band’s repertoire!

Sergio Leone a renouvelé les codes du western en lui redonnant un souffle épique et moderne. C’est ainsi qu’est né le western italien. The Italian Western est un arrangement qui rassemble trois thèmes ( Santa Fe Express Funerale Nero et Marcia dei MacGregor ) composés par Ennio Morricone pour deux westerns “made in Cinecittà”.

As recorded by QUEEN- The Show Must Go On was one of the last hits for Freddie Mercury in 1991 the year of his death. In this context the title has a tragic significance. This arrangement will please both musicians and audiences and will throw off the sad associations of this song.

The 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta acted as the inspirationfor Wim Laseroms to compose this piece. It is in the form of aconcert march and its brilliant festive lyrical style reflects the bestof everything about this most prestigious sporting event. Why notcelebrate this year’s Olympics in China by performing this spiritedand energetic march.

Rock About is an eight part work in which parts can be distributed according to the players available. The light pieces are full of joy and are sure to make your audience want to get up and dance!

Dans A Happy Band Dixie Rob Ares s’est inspiré de la musique du Sud des États-Unis pour composer une pièce rythmée dans un style musical très apprécié pour son énergie sa vitalité et son authenticité : le dixieland jazz.

Au début des années 50 apparaît un nouveau rythme très proche de la samba le baïon. Originaire du Nord du Brésil il décline les couleurs du Nordeste. Fiesta de Rob Ares développe un rythme baïon sur une mélodie issue de la fusion entre les harmonies latines et européennes. Une composition divertissante et dansante.

Reminiscencia Gitana was originally a piano piece. André Waignein wrote the piece for the Spanish pianist Blanca Quevedo a student of his at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. This work has all the elements that make a composition interesting: melody virtuosity and most importantly the ‘Gitana’ (gypsy) character. Each section follows on without interruption making a contrasting whole that will captivate both players and audience until the last note.

As recorded by QUEEN- The Show Must Go On was one of the last hits for Freddie Mercury in 1991 the year of his death. In this context the title has a tragic significance. This arrangement will please both musicians and audiences and will throw off the sad associations of this song.

On 30th September 1791 a few months before his death the opera “Die Zauberflote” (The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was given its first performance. It was remarkable that despite his ill health and his disastrous financial situation he was able to compose a work of such comic genius. Mozart composed the overture in the two days before the premier of the opera and it is on this overture that this transcription is based. To perform the work ‘a la Mozart’ only the timpani part should be used the additional percussion parts have been added by the arranger and are therefore optional.Mozart 40th SymphonyThe Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived atragically short life of thirty-five years. Towards the end of his life in the summer of 1788 he wrote three symphonies in the span of a little over six weeks. His Symphony No.40 in G Minor was one of those great works. This setting of the first movement from that Symphony provides ample demonstration of the composer's grace inventiveness and pervasive sense of humour which can be found throughout his music.

Major Yvon Ducene wanted a new lush and colourful composition for his Guides military band with André Waignein as its composer. Early in 1979 the composer began his assignement and in October of the same year the finished full score was on the music stands of this prestigious military band of the Belgian Army.The introduction (Grave) mirrors an atmosphere full of serenity in which the theme played by the oboes and the English horn is predominant and immediately holds the listener spell-bound. It is taken up again as central element of the slow movement.The Allegro breaks away from the quiet passion of the introduction. Here the band can really show its capabilities to thefull. Based on a very precise rythm an idiom of sudden desperation and adversity develops which fused with a crushing agression culminates in a kind of eruption soom calmed down by a Lento : peace and quiet has returned thanks to a melody by the horns and soon taken over by the clarinets. In the meantime the saxophone - an instrument full of human emotion - express the main spatial dimension in contemporary psyche. Following a harmonic transition the brass-players take up the theme again in forte whilst the basses and the woodwinds interwine in technical arabesques.The movings of the mind and the heart get an audible and almost touchable shape in the ensuing Allegro a movement characterized by a rhythmic dialogue in which the whole orchestra participates and where the exposition contains a wealth of sound and technical contrasts. The Lento finally uses the central theme of the slow movement again with some occasional references to the two allegros. The last page is of unprecedented grandeur. All the instruments display their most beautiful sound which were named by Jacques Ferschotte when speaking about Honneger harmonies d'intensités harmonies of the unmeasurable.

Le 31 août 2002 le monde du jazz perdait l’un de ses plus grands ambassadeurs. Lionel Hampton s’est éteint à l’âge de 94 ans. En plus de soixante ans de carrière ce roi du swing - virtuose du vibraphone (dont il fut le premier jazzman à en faire un instrument soliste) - a joué avec la plupart des autres géants du jazz de Benny Goodman à Charlie Parker de Louis Armstrong à Miles Davis. A Tribute to Lionel est un hommage musical à cet artiste exceptionnel. La partie soliste a bien évidemment été confiée au vibraphone mais peut également être interprétée par la clarinette.

Frida Boccara chanteuse française née au Maroc eut encore plus de succès avec la ballade émouvante de 1969 Cent Mille Chansons qu’avec sa chanson victorieuse au Grand Prix d’Eurovision Un jour un enfant. Larry Foster créa une version pour orchestre d’harmonie de cette chanson connue dans le monde entier qui se prête magnifiquement à l’encadrement de n’importe quelles festivités.