I grew up with all the great shows. And that's what you're going to get here...an old-fashioned traditional musical comedy. - Mel Brooks This Tony award winner has become an entertainment phenomenon--the hardest ticket to get on Broadway. Ted Ricketts' spectacular medley includes: Along Came Bialy Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop I Wanna Be a Producer Keep It Gay The King of Broadway Prisoners of Love That Face and Springtime for Hitler.

Herrmann wanted to write a musical portrait of his friend and colleague Alfred Hitchcok so choose motifs from the movie The Trouble With Harry one of Hitchcockâ??s more personal and humorous films. This single-movement work for Orchestra employs some of the more familiar elements of Herrmannâ??s compositional style: short musical phrases repeated and then repeated again in other positions sharp use of dynamics among them. From the first note the creepiness begins.Bernard Herrmann was among the very greatest of all composers of music for cinema and there are many who avow that he was the greatest of all. A very short list of the films for which this award-winning composercreated soundtracks includes Citizen Kane The Man Who Knew Too Much Vertigo Jason and Argonauts Fahrenheit 451 Obsession and Taxi Driver. He had a long and fertile association with Alfred Hitchcock during the most productive period of Hitchcockâ??s career and with Orson Welles from the time of the Mercury Theatre on the Air. In addition to his conducting and composing work for the entertainment world Herrmann wrote concert pieces including a symphony opera and cantata.

In 2012, the American composer Elliott Carter died at the ripe old age of almost 104. To the last, he devoted his time to composing. Instances is the last orchestral work written by the two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. / Orchestre

Score-We are proud to offer this most recent work for band from one of the legendary composers of our time. Pulitzer Prize winner Karel Husa has created an impressive musical study of the fascinating cheetah. Through a variety ofdramatic textures and skilled techniques the music evokes the colors movements power and speed of this magnificent wild animal. Dur. 5:40 (Grade 5)

(1993)Since its premiere by the Baltimore Symphony in 1994 at Carnegie Hall the GRAMMY®-winning Metropolis Symphony has entered the orchestral repertoire and been performed by orchestras all over the world.Metropolis Symphony is a five-movement musical response to the world of Superman and Krypton refers to the exploding planet from which the infant Superman escaped. A dark microtonal sound world is createdby glissandi in the strings trombone and siren. Two percussionists play antiphonal fire bells throughout the movement as it evolves from a recurring solo motive in the cellos into ominous calls from the brass section. Graduallythe movement builds toward an apocalyptic conclusion. Duration - ca. 7:00