15 Selections for Young Concert Band-You don't have to be using the Essential Elements band method to enjoy this fantastic collection of arrangements and originals for developing bands. Containing proven winners from the Essential Elements Band Series thiscollection is an economical way to provide a variety of quality literature for your band.Includes: African Sketches Barrier Reef Do You Hear What I Hear? Regimental Honor Spinning Wheel The Streets of Madrid You're a Grand Old Flag British Masters Suite Elves' Dance Firebird Suite–Finale Gaelic Dances Irish Legends On Broadway Summon the Heroes and Two Celtic Dances. (Grade 2)

Per Nørgård's Symphony No.1 ' Sinfonia Austera ' Op.13 (1953-55) revised 1956 edition in full score. Programme Note: Although my first symphony plays for 30 minutes 2/3 of my third symphony the time for composing the work was the same: 3 years from 1953 to 1955 (Symphony No. 3: 1973-1975). One of the reasons probably was the challenge of a “symphonic work” for a 21 year old composer. And all the afterthoughts following every – more spontaneous sudden – bright idea in the long progress of forming thework. Important for the slow working process I remember that every section of the symphony came to me at strange moments in a ´complete vision´ like a sounding vision in time. The problem was in detail to analyze and notate my what I had actually had heard. For instance: with the polyphonic woodwind section in the first movement (with the “Tapiola”-birdcry a greeting to Jean Sibelius) I only knew in the beginning that it should be music in the high register and only for woodwinds. But of what they should play…I had no idea at all.  The severe character of the symphony (sinfonia austere) is with no doubt very juvenile. But as many things in both life and music has elements of youthfulness I think that my serious young symphony should live and stay the way it was composed in 1953-1955.  Per Nørgård