Bertel Gripenberg

Die im August 1923 in Radvány (Nordungarn) fertiggestellte Tanzsuite wurde für ein Festkonzert komponiert, das am 19. November 1923 anlässlich des 50-jährigen Jubiläums der Vereinigung der beiden Städ...

The Merry King' is a folk song from Sussex, England. Percy Grainger originally transcribed the melody in 1905, sketched for chorus within the year after, then set it for piano or small orchestra betwe...

This work expresses the composers impressions on the scenery and people of his native land, Australia. The scoring is arranged so that the lead male and female vocal lines can optionally be played by...

This is movement No. 2 from the suite 'In a Nutshell' scored for symphonic band by Mark Rogers. No actual folk songs or any other popular tunes were used in the suite, according to the composer. The p...

Jules Verne's popular 1873 adventure novel, 'Around the World in Eighty Days, ' has inspired countless readers, as well as two motion pictures. The first of these, produced by Michael Todd, featured a...

Randy Jackson teaches the art of thinking and feeling bass! Viewers will gain tremendous insight and understanding in this insightful DVD covering the essential relationship between bass and drums, wh...

An early work written in 1908 while the composer was still studying with Rimsky-Korsakov, 'Fireworks' is dedicated to his teacher's daught Nadia and her husband Maximilian Steinberg, and gave the youn...

Strauss took the title 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' from the highly controversial book of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche for this forward-looking tone-poem. This piece, although written in a passio...

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826) grew up in a musical family that longed for him to be a musical prodigy like is relation (by marriage), W.A. Mozart. As a young man, he met famed clarinetist Heinric...

In agricultural districts in various parts of England, teams of 'Morris Men,' decked out with jingling bells and other finery, can still be seen dancing to 'Sheperd's Hey' and other traditional dance...

In agricultural districts in various parts of England, teams of 'Morris Men,' decked out with jingling bells and other finery, can still be seen dancing to 'Sheperd's Hey' and other traditional dance...

Percy Grainger's extraordinary scoring skills permeate this classic, carefree work for symphonic band. Children's March: 'Over the Hills and Far Away', originally a piano solo, was orchestrated by the...

Commissioned by the Kansas City Youth Symphony, this work was intended to serve as a major contribution to the celebration of the orchestra's 40th anniversary. The wind band version of the symphony wa...

Diversion was composed while Bernhard Heiden served as Assistant Bandmaster for the 445th US Army band during World War II. This first-ever print edition has been carefully edited and adapted with mod...

Folk Tune' (also known as 'Sheep Shearing Song') was originally composed for piano by Eugène Goosens. This setting for symphonic band by Percy Grainger bears the hallmark ingenious application of inst...