SKU: HL.44010493

UPC: 884088481032. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Utsunomiya is the capital of Japan's Tochigi Prefecture and is about 100 km north of Tokyo, about an hour on the bullet train. When the Utsunomiya Brass Society, a talented and versatile group of brass players formed in 1978, asked Philip Sparke to compose a signature march to celebrate their 30th anniversary, they asked for a bright and breezy march which they could use to open concerts. Jubiloso is written in the same style as Sparke's Slipstream and The Bandwagon, with heavily syncopated melodies and a conventional cantabile trio section, but also contains sudden bars of unusual meter that trip up the march rhythm.

SKU: AP.36-B384401

ISBN 9798892701242. UPC: 659359621505. English.

Kenneth Whitcomb (1926-1997) was the staff arranger for the United States Military Academy Band at West Point. He later became the conductor of the 30th United States Army Band. Evening Breeze for Trumpet or Cornet and band accompaniment was written during his time as staff arranger. Whitcomb uses a jazz style that gives a sense of an evening breeze.

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SKU: WJ.SBW2402

9 x 12 inches.

This sparkling concert overture commemorates the 30th anniversary of the First Coast Wind Symphony. An opening majestic fanfare leads to a buoyant main theme in 12/8 time. A lyrical contrasting section is as rich in melodic content as it is passion. The piece, being in a modified rondo form restates a variation of the main theme before returning to the opening fanfare and a rousing conclusion.

SKU: AY.CM3147PM

ISBN 9790543574359.

The trio for flute, violin and bass clarinet was composed the year 1953. In this year, Homs adopted the dodecaphonic system, in order to get some self control and opposite to the anxiety provoked by the all is permitted. In the exercise and the demand that this system has, the composer finds, on one hand, the coherence on the musical discourse and on the other hand, a new way to express himself. The trio is made up of three movements: Andante, Allegro scherando i Vivace. The premiere was held the 30th of December 1954 in the third program of the BBC. It was performed by Harold Clarke (fl.), Richard Temple (vl.) and Vera Kantrovitch (cl.b.).

SKU: ST.AC241

ISBN 9790220222535.

Seventy next year, Bayan Northcott is a leading writer about music, and a composer who has particularly focused on variation forms - hence the 'doubles' of this new work ('doubles' being an alternative term for variations, as found for example in Bach); and hence, in celebratory mode, 'doubles all round' as the title for this sparkling piece d'occasion composed at the request of Endymion to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Doubles All Round would indeed make an ideal five-minute introduction to a new-music concert, or a fascinating contemporary excursus in a classical programme that featured the line up of flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano. The work is launched by a vigorous keyboard prelude, which returns after the third double in a brief cadenza, before the piece is rounded off by the fourth double, quasi una coda.

Bayan Northcott's collected critical writings, The Way We Listen Now, were published by Plumbago Books in 2009.