for Concert Band-Winter Dreams (2015) for concert band is Michael Daughertys contemporary musical reflection on the creative world of Iowa artist Grant Wood (1891-1942). Composed in memory of Michaels father Willis Daugherty (1929-2011) the music also reflects onthe years when the composer was growing up in Cedar Rapids Iowa. A lush tapestry of slow moving sonorities unfolds as Winter Dreams evokes the bleak winter scenes of rural Iowa depicted in Grant Woods paintings and lithographs of the 1930s-1940s such as ?January? and ?February.? A haunting melody evokes a cold winter wind whistling ?down in the valley.? If you are looking for a soulful poignant and expressive work to program for your next concert look no further. Winter Dreams is wellsuited for bands at the college high school and community levels.

Concert Band - Grade 3 Dedicated to the Pan-American Exposition held the summer of 1901 in Buffalo Sousa himself thought this marvelous 6/8 march was the equal of the more famous Stars and Stripes Forever. Jay Bocook hasfashioned this very playable and enjoyable version for the contemporary concert band.

Reflecting many of the composer's childhood memories growing up in the deep South, this work rises high into the sky. Original, folk-style melodies along with contemporary harmonies will make this work a perfect contest or concert piece for your concert band. (6:00) / Concert Band

Commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters Association for the 2008 All-State High School Honor Band this stunning work from the pen of Samuel Hazo is a tour de force of Middle Eastern sounds for the contemporary wind band. Fromdelicate and sensual soloistic writing to full-blown ensemble passages with rapid fire tutti rhythms and frenzied percussion here is a rewarding piece with drama and depth that will be the high point of any concert or festivalprogram. Period! Dur: 6:00 (Grade 5)Audio recorded live by the 2008 North Carolina 11-12 All-State Honor Band ? Samuel R. Hazo conductor

Acclaimed French composer Albert Roussel is known today for his famous pupils Erik Satie and Edgard Varèse as well as for his own marvelous works. Composed specifically for the famed Goldman Band and premiered in 1933 inNew York City A Glorious Day is an invigorating work written in a modified overture format of fast-slow-fast. Mark Fonder's critical edition provides a rare opportunity to play a pre-WWII original band work and is animportant addition to the literature for contemporary wind bands. Dur: 6:10 Recorded by The United States Air Force Concert Band Washington D.C. Lieutenant Colonel Lowell E. Graham Commander/Conductor.Fromthe recording ?Songs of the Earth? BOL-9706

We are proud to publish Alfred Reed's Third Symphony. From the intensity of the opening meovement to the exquisite counterpoint of the finale Dr. Reed draws the most from the resources of the contemporary concert band. Writtenfor the U.S. Air Force Band this powerful three-movement work is certain to be a lasting contribution to the world of band literature.

Depicting the hustle and bustle of the morning commute, this high-energy, contemporary overture for developing band will have your students sounding a grade higher than written. With sweeping melodic lines and driving percussion, this overture will be a great contest or concert opener! (2:30) / Concert Band

Score-Written for the Williamsville (NY) Commissioning Consortium here is a unique and substantial addition to the band repertoire. Featuring contemporary techniques and an ingenious use of orchestrational colors this descriptive work makes full use of the concert band's palette of sound possibilities.

The sights and sounds of a Civil War era band come alive in this authentically recreated medley for the contemporary concert band. Set in the style of the uptempo “quickstep” march this music was meant for instilling pride and bravery asthe troops were on the move.

During their secondary school days Karen and Richard Carpenter already had a band and won several prizes. In 1969 they recorded their first album. From that moment they have been part of the contemporary history of pop music. Top of the World is from 1973 but still an evergreen. Now also available for concert band in this arrangement by Urata.

Score-The suggestion that I write my autobiography was made at a time when anyone who did not write one risked being called eccentric. It became and still is a major sport among the oldsters. Some of the contemporary books are goodreading indeed. One of the best of them is the result of an enormous research job as is brought out in the introduction to the work. Imagine spending long hours and traveling many miles to find out about oneself: I am sure Iwould be one of the first to be utterly bored by the subject. It was not so easy however to dismiss the whole idea as my friends presented it.The only answer I could think of with any degree of enthusiasm was this one written purely for whatever pleasure it could give. My own part of the pleasure is mostly in utilizing the musical language of the concert band with its apparently inexhaustible colors and its fabulous vitality.The form(if the term has any right being here) is seven short pictures each about two minutes long of my own personal seven ages. The two-minute idea may be the result of the loudspeakers spread all over the hotel in Arizona where thepiece was composed. There was no getting out of ear-shot of those two-minute gems - in the dining rooms around the swimming pools by the putting green everywhere-but I honestly do not believe any of them crept into what I waswriting. I do not believe I paid much more than passing attention to them.Part Two:IV. 1916: Mo. to N.Y.V. 1919: The Merrill MiracleVI. 1926: A Parisian in ParisVII. 1935: What Was theQuestion?The three of my seven ages in Part One took us to the legal end of my youth. Gathering up my unspectacular belongings including my entire fortune of less than two hundred dollars I swooped down on New Yorkfor no more reason than that it was New York and had a street in it called Broadway. The music borrows two or three rhythms from the era but the only note-for-note quote is what the bugler at Camp Funston played every morning

This contemporary-sounding work makes a fine concert opener or festival selection! Your band will demonstrate a wide variety of styles in less than three minutes. There is plenty of enjoyable 'flight time' for the upper woodwinds exciting passages for the brass and a fetching liberally-cued brass ensemble section.

Here's a brilliant concert work from the master of the contemporary British band style. Brassy and full of contrast it maintains a forceful rhythmic vitality throughout. A sensational addition to the repertoire.

‘Jubilant Prelude’ is an orchestration of the ‘Preludium over Psalm 150’ originally composed for organ by Toon Hagen. Since 1998 Toon Hagen has been organ-player of the ‘Grote or Sint Michaëlskerk’ in Zwolle (the Netherlands). He has written several ‘contemporary’ compositions for organ.‘Jubilant Prelude’ has a capricious character by the use of irregular measures and its many measure changes. The structure of the Prelude is that of a fugue and is based on motives from the psalm.After the first climax which is both dynamic and harmonic the theme in the Andante Jubiloso is clearly audible and it is alternated with erratic motifs. Tension increases until at last the psalm itself isheard in all its glory. The melody of the psalm sounds as a cantus firmus in tenor register with motifs in ornamentation for saxophones bugles and trumpets. The finale like the prelude is capricious and vehement.The instrumentation for concert band was made by Wim Rouw. It is particularly colourful and has a surprising role for the percussion section.