Ensembles

Haydn's 'most perfect concerto,' originally written for soloist and orchestra, was conceived to display the capabilities of the then newly invented valve trumpet. This Robert Rumbelow setting for solo...

Gershwin's Prelude II for piano is the second in a set of three preludes composed in 1936. In Donald Grantham's uniquely original composition, Fantasy Variations, both of the 'big' tunes in the piece...

The music included in Dancin' into the '20s has been chosen to reflect some of the styles of music and corresponding use for exhibition and social dancing during the years leading into the 1920s. Each...

Confrey is known primarily for his 'novelty piano' compositions, which cultivated the style of Jelly Roll Morton and Scott Joplin. This arrangement of one of his compositions conjures an image of the...

This classical horn concerto has been masterfully transcribed for wind ensemble accompaniment by Robert W. Rumbelow. The first movement, Allegro Maestoso, is in traditional sonata form; the second, An...

A unique work that introduces several contemporary compositional techniques including aleatoric and improvisatory material, jazz-inflected writing and an involved chromatic melodic sense, all within h...

The years surrounding the American Civil War became a gathering place, a focusing point in the development of the American wind band with several major peronages providing leadership during this vital...

A new setting for two solo trumpets and light wind ensemble accompaniment to complement the setting above for chamber orchestra.

Sunan Dances , an innovative work by one of America's most talented young composers, is in one movement consisting of an introduction followed by three large sections. A Chinese melody from the Jiangs...

Among all of Rachmaninoff's works known to today's concert audiences, no work bears the high reputation of his haunting Vocalise, a work without text for soprano and keyboard. It has been cast into nu...