from Sing 2. Par MENDES SHAWN / COX ISHBAH (Arr.). Recorded by Shawn Mendes in 2017, this catchy rock hit has a lot going for it including over a billion views on YouTube! Featured in the hit movie Sing 2, it\'s a great number for a dance feature, or just rockin\' the stands. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Fanfare

'The Alchymist's Journal' gets its title from the book of the same name by American author Evan S. Connell. The book fictionalises a number of famous Alchemist’s writings each one developing another's thoughts thus continuing one idea but changing it subtly to provide a new view point or way of thinking. This process is in fact alchemical as one idea transmutes into another. This idea is parallel to the processes at work within these variants. The whole work is constructed from 6 notes (C A B flat E flat F sharp E) and is presented in nine different sections each individual in mood but still based upon the original pitches. This is not a thematic set ofvariations as the themes are developed one at a time from small segments of the six notes. For example the opening theme is the complete number of pitches the second theme uses three notes transposed then repeated at the original level and so on. Harmonically the six notes can be divided into two triads A minor and E flat minor – each key beginning and ending the piece respectively. Whilst this is essentially abstract music with no programme there is an introduction menacing scherzo slow reflective section followed by a recap of the scherzo and final coda. 'The Alchymist’s Journal' was commissioned by the Brass Band Heritage Trust at the suggestion of Paul Hindmarsh to whom the work is dedicated.

Jesu bleibet meine Freude from Cantata 147-Bach’s appointment as the Cantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1723 required him to produce a new cantata for every Sunday service. Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring is taken from his Cantata No.147 and is unusually elaborate treated more like an aria than a chorale. It is perhaps the best-loved cantata movement from Bach’s entire output and is a certain crowd pleaser for your concert programme.

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn’t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years as a school assistant and his own organ and piano studies, he first worked as organist in St. Florian, then from 1855 as cathedral organist in Linz. Introduced to music theory and instrumentation by Simon Sechter and Otto Kitzler, he discovered Richard Wagner as an artistic role model, whom he admired throughout his life and also visited several times in Bayreuth. In 1868 Anton Bruckner became professor of basso continuo, counterpoint and organ at the Vienna Conservatory; ten years later court organist; and in 1891 finally honorary doctor of the University of Vienna. He was considered an important organ virtuoso of his era, but had to wait a long time for recognition as a composer. It was not until Symphony No.7 in E major, composed between 1881 and 1883, with the famous Adagio written under the effects of Wagner's death, that he achieved the recognition he had hoped for, even if he was reluctant to accept it given his inclination towards scepticism and self-criticism. Anton Bruckner was a loner who did not want to follow a particular school or doctrine. He composed numerous sacred vocal works, such as his three masses, the Missa Solemnis in B flat minor (1854), the Te Deum (1881-84) and numerous motets. As a symphonic composer, he wrote a total of nine symphonies and many symphonic studies from 1863 onwards, tending to revise completed versions several times over. Bruckner's orchestral works were long considered unplayable, but in fact were merely exceptionally bold for the tonal language of their time, uniting traditions from Beethoven through Wagner to folk music, on the threshold between late Romanticism and Modernism. Anton Bruckner composed about 40 motets during his lifetime, the earliest a setting of Pange lingua around 1835, and the last, Vexilla regis, in 1892. Thomas Doss has compiled some of these motets in this volume for symphonic wind orchestra. These motets show many characteristics of personal expression, especially Bruckner's colourful harmony in the earlier works, which is in places aligned with Franz Schubert (changes between major and minor; and movements in thirds). Later works are characterised by many components which, in addition to the expanded stature of the movements, include above all a sense of the instrumentation as an outward phenomenon and the harmony as a compositional feature that works more internally. Some aspects of Bruckner's work are the result of his long period of study, which familiarised him not only with the tradition of his craft, but also gave him insights into the 'modernity' of his time in such composers as Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz. From this developed his personal standpoint, which always pursues the connection between the old and the new. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

In 'Ding Dong it's Christmas' Scottish composer Bruce Fraser makes a sport of misleading his audience time and again. The title already indicates that this piece has been based on the well-known Carol 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' even if the melody makes a somewhat halting start. When it gathers pace however also due to the percussion section suddenly various other carols may be recognized. Peace and quiet reign in the middle part during which we can enjoy Bach's charming 'O Jesulein süss'. 'Ding Dong it's Christmas' ends in the same way it began even if more and more Carols put in an appearance. Merry Christmas!

Faites trois v?ux??? et imaginez-vous sur un tapis volant. Vous voici dans le plus grandiose et le plus dr?le des grands classiques de Walt Disney : Aladin (1992) dont la musique a ?t? confi?e au compositeur Alan Menken qui signe avec Aladin sa troisi?me bande originale cons?cutive pour les studios Disney apr?s La Petite Sir?ne et La Belle et la B?te. Couronn?e par deux Oscars cette partition symphonique pleine de fra?cheur et de vivacit? d?veloppe de superbes th?mes color?s aux sonorit?s orientales.

Suite Based on Poems by Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855)-Nerval?s Poems (?Poèmes de Nerval?) est une œuvre basée sur quatre poèmes extraits du recueil Odelettes du poète français Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855). Souffrant les tourments de la psychose Nerval poète maudit vivait dans le royaume de son imagination s?identifiant à des princes de contes de fées et des héros orientaux. Jacob de Haan a composé des thèmes en osmose avec les rythmes des poèmes. Nerval?s Poems peut être interprété par un ensemble instrumental seul ou avec Voix (ou Choeur à l?unisson).

Gulliver's Travels (Les Voyages de Gulliver 1726) de l?écrivain irlandais d?origine anglaise Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) est un roman satirique qui raconte les quatre voyages de Lemuel Gulliver chirurgien à bord d?un navire. Le génie imaginatif la finesse d?esprit et la prose simple qui caractérisent les explorations fantaisistes de ces mondes imaginaires ont fasciné des générations de lecteurs. Bert Appermont a réalisé une œuvre en quatre tableaux hauts en couleurs à l?image des récits de Swift.1. Lilliput : Après un naufrage Gulliver se retrouve sur l?île de Lilliput dont les habitants les Lilliputiens ne mesurent qu?environ six pouces de haut.Peuple vif et énergique les Lilliputiens sont symbolisés par un thème enjoué. Les couleurs pétillent? / 2. Brobdingnag : Au pays de Brobdingnag Gulliver est enlevé par des géants. La ligne mélodique revient à plusieurs reprises. L?accélération du tempo intensifie la trame dramatique de ce second mouvement. / 3. Laputa : Laputa est une île volante habitée par d?étranges personnages qui penchent la tête tantôt à droite tantôt à gauche : ils ont un œil tourné en dedans et l'autre vers le ciel. La musique évolue dans un décor chimérique. / 4. Au pays des Houyhnhnms : Au cours de son dernier voyage Gulliver arrive chez les Houyhnhnms des chevaux intelligents et profondément sages qui règnent sur les Yahoos créatures dégénérées de type humain. L?ouverture puissante (trompettes) illustre les chevaux au galop ; le thème solennel qui suit (cors et trombones) symbolise les primitifs et sauvages Yahoos. Le mouvement s?achève sur un finale grandiose.

From 'Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stoine'. Par WILLIAMS JOHN / ROGERS SCOTT (Arr.). Hedwig's Theme is the easily recognizable melody that musically binds together all of the Harry Potter films. Composer John Williams has used the tune as a leitmotif, setting it in different moods according to the situations in the movie, yet always reminding the listener of it’s connection to the main characters of the film. The melody is intervalic, with many interesting dissonances. Normally, this would make the tune difficult for young players, but their familiarity with this particular melody gives them easier access to these dissonances and unusual intervals. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Avec Let?s Celebrate Sven Van Calster nous rappelle le dynamisme de son style d?écriture connu au-delà des frontières belges. L?oeuvre a été commandée pour l?Orchestre d?Harmonie Junior SJOW (district d?Hoboken - Belgique) à l?occasion de son dixième anniversaire. Des motifs agréables joués par les bois et une rythmique solide et brillante assurée par les percussions donnent à Let?s Celebrate un caractère gai et lumineux qui nous invite à faire la fête. Une composition idéale en ouverture de concert.

Arrangeur: Michael (Mike) Story. Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. Arranged by Michael story. Young Band, Grade II Michael Story's silken scoring for your concert band presents a great opportunity to teach phrasing, legato and dynamic shadings, and serve as that all important crowd pleaser. (2:17)Michael Story's silken scoring for your concert band presents a greortunity to teach phrasing, legato and dynamic shadings, and serve as that all important crowd pleaser. (2:17)/ Répertoire / Harmonie

Gebaseerd op een gedicht van de Duitse dichter Carl Hauptmann (laat Romantiek) Carl Hauptmann had als kind een zeer zwakke gezondheid maar was zeer intelligent. Hij studeerde Filosofie Psychologie en Biologie. In het laatste vak promoveerde hij. Het huwelijk zorgde voor financiele onafhankelijkheid zodat hij zich kon richten op zijn verdere studie. Hauptmann schreef enkele romans toneelstukken poëzie en wetenschappelijke werken. NIGHT - Carl Hauptmann Twilight floats above the valley's night mists are hanging there's a whispering brook. Now the covering veil is lifting quite: come and look! See the magic land beforeour gaze: tall as dreams the silver mountains stand crossed by silent silver paths shining from a secret land. Noble pure the dreaming country sleeps. By the path the shadow black and hogh of a beech. a wisp of a white smoke creeps to the dark'ning sky. Where the valley is the darkest hued countless little lights shine silently. O my soul! Drink of solitude!

Par BACKSTREET BOYS / WALLACE TOM (Arr.). A heavy beat and strong bass line set the mood for this time-honored hit by the Backstreet Boys. Combined with Tom's clever treatment of the melodies, this is likely to become one of your band's favorites charts to play. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / Marching Band

Is there something to be celebrated? Then let's play 'Let's Celebrate'! This four-part suite has been based on two birthday songs: the world-famous 'Happy Birthday to you' (which is also sung in many other languages) and the Dutch song 'Lang zal hij/zij leven'. The Fanfare opens in grand style with the motif of 'Lang zal hij leven' and is followed by a cheerful March in which the motifs of both songs can be heard. The third part Song forms a moment of contemplation and the birthday presents are unwrapped by the percussion section in the fourth part Surprise Party. The yell may be adapted to the occasion. (the sleigh bells caused the composer to note down this somewhat peculiar yell). Of course everybody is expected to join in.