Commandé par le théâtre d'Etat Oldenburg, ' Episodes ' pour orchestre complet a été créés en 1962 et a été présentés comme un ballet intitulé ' Pas de deux '. La structure formelle de la composition est basée sur les cinq phases de la classique 'grand pas de deux', avec les deux premières sections Entrée et Adage étant Unis dans un mouvement. La matière musicale de base est définie par un mode de sept-note (tous les demi-tons dans la plage de la Trichrome C - fa dièse) qui varie en fonction de plusieurs façons dans les mouvements rythmiquement influencées. Cette musique, dans sa férocité et pithiness, se classe parmi les plus expressifs scores par Bertold Hummel, et ses représentations de théâtre et de concert visent également à captiver l'auditoire. / Grand Orchestre

Ack Värmeland du sköna-This arrangement is based on the Swedish folksong Ack Värmelad du sk÷na. (Oh Värmeland You Fair and Lovely Place.) The lyrics of the song speak of the beauty of the landscape and the wonderful nature of the people that live there. Although the folksong is presented with some alterations an attempt is made to capture the attractiveness of the melody and the sentiments expressed in the lyrics. The scoring assigns the melody to ever-changing combinations of instruments adding artistic variety and making the music more fun to rehearse and perform.

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.

For use during an Olympic year or anytime during the academic year when inspiration is needed Mark Hayes' and Pamela Martin's fresh voicings of this bugler's theme known around the world is stunning. It has original lyrics set toan outstanding choral arrangement of the familiar tune and is available in a variety of voicings that are sure to accomodate your ensemble. A full orchestration and a StudioTrax CD are available for your library! Availableseparately: SATB SSAB 2-part (opt. SSA) StudioTrax CD Orchestration.

Legacy of Faith is a powerful musical presentation that celebrates the foundations of the church and God's redemptive work among us. Joseph and Pamela Martin have again teamed with orchestrator Brant Adams to provide afresh and compelling work suitable for any time of the year. Churches will find this uplifting new cantata to be a work of scope and vision that will prove especially useful for church heritage events founding anniversaries andAll Saints' Day services. Legacy of Faith pays homage to the past but delivers a strong message of hope for the future. Make Legacy of Faith a part of your church's history.

Although Bertold Hummel composed this Scherzo for bassoon and chamber orchestra more than fifty years ago the piece still captivates every listener with its youthful carefree liveliness. Virtuoso and witty it does justice to its title in every respect. It was created in 1957 upon commission of the Kleines Unterhaltungsorchester Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. The solo part of the four-minute concert piece with the tempo indication 'allegro molto' was tailor-made by Hummel for the orchestra's principal bassoonist Helmut Böker.In addition to the hire material a piano score with solo part is now available on sale.

Four Pieces For Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2000-2003. Programme note: In 1983 Hans Abrahamsen wrote the first seven of his Ten Studies for Piano. In the early eighties most composers who wrote for the piano were still making strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the instrument?s romantic past for example treating it as a percussion instrument rather than exploiting its expressive ?singing? potential. The piano?s modern identity as a mechanical rational emotionally cool instrument is reflected in Abrahamsen?s studies 5 7; but in the first four studies Abrahamsen allows the piano to?recollect? its past: especially what the composer calls ?the golden German romantic time full of expression night timelessness dream and the irrational?. Accordingly these first four studies were given German one might specifically say Schumanesque - titles: Traumlied (?Dreamsong?) Sturm (?Storm?) Arabeske (?Arabesque?) and Ende (?End?). While Abrahamsen was in no way dissatisfied with the first four Studies as piano music he soon felt the urge to expand them in both time and space. In their new identity as Four Pieces for Orchestra created between 2000-2003 the original studies nearly doubled in length while the forces required expanded from one soloist to an orchestra of Mahlerian/Straussian dimensions including instruments beloved by the late-romantics: Wagner tubas bass trumpet guitar mandolin and the hammer used so memorably in Mahler?s Sixth Symphony and Alban Berg?s Three Pieces for Orchestra. The results are not so much ?arrangements? of the four piano studies more recompositions. A helpful comparison might be made with certain painters: Cézanne portraying the same mountain from different angles; or Monet obsessively returning to Rouen Cathedral in different lights and weather conditions. Abrahamsen himself remembers an important visit to the Munch Museum in Oslo where he saw how Munch painted the same subject

(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire). Par TORME MEL. Une des chansons de vacances plus demandés de tous les temps est maintenant disponible dans cet arrangement nouvel fraîche par Ted Ricketts. Mel Torme ' châtaignier 'est juste pour votre prochaine performance de vacances, le réchauffement le coeur de vos joueurs et le public./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Melodia Per Piccola Orchestra. Par CATALANI ALFREDO. Melodia Per Piccola Orchestra / Date parution : 1905-06-06/ Répertoire / Orchestre

The piece for string orchestra Infinite Melody is dedicated to the great shadows in Bayreuth Wagner and Liszt. An evocative miniature like a style study it was requested by youth ensembles participating in the artistic festival in this city. A polyphonic technique involving immanent sounds is used which was also used in The Modal Column. The passage of the melodic relief from one group of instruments to another induces a feeling of perpetual quest. From Wagner and Liszt’s infinite melody a few external characteristic aspects are employed: 1. the grupetto which tends to amplify the importance of a sound and 2. the Auftakt fromthe beginning of each phrase as in Tristan and Isolde At the climax of the piece an impact with a few authentic themes takes place cited from Wagner (Siegfried-Idylle) and Liszt respectively (Faust-Symphonie).

Score-John Jacob Niles' I Wonder As I Wander arranged for Orchestra.This Christian folk hymn was inspired by a song heard by Niles at a fundraising meeting for evangelicals which he attendedin Murphy North Carolina. Niles wrote of the moment he first heard the tune:'A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached to the automobile. She began to sing. Her clothes wereunbelievable dirty and ragged and she too was unwashed. Her ash-blond hair hung down in long skeins.... But best of all she was beautiful and in her untutored way she could sing. She smiled as she sang smiled rather sadly and sang only a single line of a song'.Niles requested that the girl repeat the fragment seven times paying her a quarter per performance and left with 'three lines of verse a garbled fragment ofmelodic material—and a magnificent idea'. He completed his composition on October 4 1933 and I Wonder As I Wander was first performed on December 19 1933 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown North Carolina.This melodic arrangement by Michael Brown offers an opportunity for every group of instruments to shine making it an excellent choice for school concerts or showcases.