Par SPARKE PHILIP. En 2007, Philip Sparke est nommé compositeur en résidence à l’établissement scolaire de Monmouth (Monmouth School), bourgade historique sur la frontière Angleterre/Pays de Galles. L’école puise dans un passé prestigieux qui remonte à 1614. Elle dispose d’un département de musique particulièrement actif, qui peut s’enorgueillir de posséder deux Orchestres d’Harmonie en collaboration avec l’école des filles Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls, et un Brass Band. Cette résidence passionnante et innovante a donné lieu à trois rencontres entre le compositeurs et élèves, et à trois commandes d’oeuvres, une pour chaque formation. La création des oeuvres a eu lieu dans lecadre du concert de fin d’année. Cette ouverture est une commande pour le Grand Orchestre d’Harmonie (Haberdasher’s Symphonic Winds) de l’école des filles Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls. La musique débute dans une atmosphère pétillante, et s’articule autour du thème central, Le chant d’Azincourt (The Agincourt Song), une mélodie du XVe siècle qui célèbre la victoire anglaise à la bataille d’Azincourt, au nord de la Somme, le 25 octobre 1415. La « fleur de la chevalerie française » pourtant en surnombre fut anéantie par les archers du roi Henry V d'Angleterre. Henry V naquit au château de Monmouth en 1387. Les habitants de la ville de Monmouth continuent de commémorer cette victoire décisive en se rassemblant dans la célèbre rue d’Azincourt (Agincourt Street) et sur la Place d’Azincourt (Agincourt Square), situés non loin de l’établissement scolaire de Monmouth (Monmouth School). / Niveau : 2.5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Arr. Klaas Van Der Woude. In the eighties the Pet Shop Boys produced hit after hit. It’s a Sin originates from the same year as their largest selling record West End Girls and this brave arrangement by Klauss van der Woude now means your concert band can enjoy the simplicity of this great pop song. / Niveau : 4 / Pop and rock / Recueil / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par SPARKE PHILIP. En 2007, Philip Sparke est nommé compositeur en résidence à l’établissement scolaire de Monmouth (Monmouth School), bourgade historique sur la frontière Angleterre/Pays de Galles. L’école puise dans un passé prestigieux qui remonte à 1614. Elle dispose d’un département de musique particulièrement actif, qui peut s’enorgueillir de posséder deux Orchestres d’Harmonie en collaboration avec l’école des filles Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls, et un Brass Band. Cette résidence passionnante et innovante a donné lieu à trois rencontres (entre le compositeurs et élèves) et à trois commandes d’oeuvres, une pour chaque formation. La création des oeuvres a eu lieu dans lecadre du concert de fin d’année. Almshouse Street Blues est la pièce que Philip Sparke a composée pour le Brass Band dont les membres ont eux-mêmes choisi le style. L’établissement scolaire de Monmouth est situé dans Almshouse Street (Rue Almshouse). La ville de Monmouth accueille chaque année un festival d’été dynamique et créatif qui rassemble, entre autres, des groupes de blues, mais propose également un large éventail de styles musicaux tels que le jazz, la soul, le rock et le bhangra. / Niveau : 2.5 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This major concert work cosists o five movements. 1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas, a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals, in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the “Laguna del Shimbe”, one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream. 2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It’s a proud, beautiful andindependent race, which has never succumbed to domination, not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish, fruit, plants, . . . . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation, they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways. 3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning “picture”, “soul”, “essence”. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system, their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. “Everywhere the white man goes, he leaves a wilderness behind him”, wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites, the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone, 80 tribes have vanished completely). 4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias, in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water, painted with redpaint and covered with feathers, after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound. 5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by, amongst others, the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez, who, murdered in 1988, was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped. / Niveau : 6 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This major concert work cosists o five movements. 1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas, a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals, in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the “Laguna del Shimbe”, one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream. 2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It’s a proud, beautiful andindependent race, which has never succumbed to domination, not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish, fruit, plants, . . . . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation, they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways. 3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning “picture”, “soul”, “essence”. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system, their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. “Everywhere the white man goes, he leaves a wilderness behind him”, wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites, the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone, 80 tribes have vanished completely). 4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias, in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water, painted with redpaint and covered with feathers, after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound. 5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by, amongst others, the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez, who, murdered in 1988, was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped. / Niveau : 6 / Répertoire / Fanfare

We Will Rock You - The Show Must Go On - Fat Bottomed Girls - I Want It All. / Niveau : 3.5 / Pop & rock / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Wuthering Heights - Bitch - Like A Virgin - Girls Just Want To Have Fun. / Niveau : 3.5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

from the Motion Picture DREAMGIRLS. Par KRIEGER HENRY. Tiré du film musical Dreamgirls, cet arrangement débute par une ballade lente et expressive avant de changer de vitesse pour nous emporter dans une ambiance énergique et puissante. Cet arrangement vraiment spectaculaire de Christopher Bond engendrera forcément un climat positif au sein de l?orchestre et plaira sans aucun doute à votre public. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Fanfare