from Star Wars: The Force Awakens-In the 2015 blockbuster film Star Wars: The Force Awakens John Williams reprises a few earlier themes along with dynamic new material. This exciting piece of music is featured in the climactic battle scene with our heroes and their X-wing fighters. A dynamic tour de force for mature bands.Watch Scherzo For X-Wings performed by The United States Army Field Band:

A powerful new work for beginning band! The words ?exciting? and ?accessible? don?t always go together in the band literature field but Timothy Johnson?s new composition honoring Zebulon Pike?s historic exploration brings these words together with masterful style. Your young band students will love playing this forceful and mysterious music. Don?t forget the cross-curricular possibilities offered by this piece!Interesting Percussion parts support carefully controlled range and rhythm demands in the Woodwinds and Brasses making EXPEDITION! attainable by every young band.