Donald Hunsberger

Rogers describes these dances as 'acts of fancy.' The dances include: 'Dance with Pennons,' 'Mourning Dance' (for off-stage soprano solo), and 'Dance with Swords'. They are dazzling in color yet rich,...

Harrison's Dream is a musical depiction of the forty-year effort by John Harrison during the first half of the 18th century to develop a chronometer capable of providing exact time on the high seas. H...

Harrison's Dream is a musical depiction of the forty-year effort by John Harrison during the first half of the 18th century to develop a chronometer capable of providing exact time on the high seas. H...

Moving between 6/8 and 2/4 meters, this is classic Sousa and is ensemble playing throughout; no one rests from beginning to end. Solid concert fare.

The wind accompaniment to George Gershwin's popular piano solo, 'Rhapsody in Blue,' is based upon the 1924 and 1926 Grofe editions for jazz band and theatre orchestra. Donald Hunsberger has scored thi...

Two charming components of the Carnaval project, scored by Donald Hunsberger for trumpet soloist Wynton Marsalis and the Eastman Wind Ensemble are combined in this freshly engraved setting. The accomp...

Optional parts for solo Oboe or Solo Soprano Saxophone are provided.

This cycle is a setting of three contrasting poems by Latin-American poets Leopoldo Lugones, Ruben Dario and Jose Martin. 'Olas Grises' uses evocative rain and sea imagery to meditate on the nature of...

Scored for trumpet soloist Wynton Marsalis, Donald Hunsberger's band accompaniment arrangement of Fantasie Brillante No. 3 in Jean-Baptiste Arban's collection of Fantasias and Variations possesses a b...

Scored for trumpet soloist Wynton Marsalis, Donald Hunsberger's band accompaniment arrangement of Fantasie Brillante No. 3 in Jean-Baptiste Arban's collection of Fantasias and Variations possesses a b...

Scored for trumpet soloist Wynton Marsalis, Donald Hunsberger's band accompaniment arrangement of Fantasie Brillante No. 3 in Jean-Baptiste Arban's collection of Fantasias and Variations possesses a b...

Scored for trumpet soloist Wynton Marsalis, Donald Hunsberger's band accompaniment arrangement of Fantasie Brillante No. 3 in Jean-Baptiste Arban's collection of Fantasias and Variations possesses a b...

Celebrating 25 years, Alfred's recently acquired Carnaval project is an epic collection of eleven solos, crafted by Hunsberger himself for Wynton Marsalis. Translated, 'The Carnival of Venice' celebra...

Score only. This work, originally written for organ, was the initial offering in the DHWL. The organ and the contemporary wind band share numerous timbre and sound projection properties as well as sha...

David Liptak chose a route to writing this composition that has been most widely recognized and acclaimed by Aaron Copland in his various settings of Americana such as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Bi...

Six songs as featured in Pal Joey. Based on a series of short stories John O'Hara had written for THE NEW YORKER about Joey Evans, a small-time, fast-talking Chicago entertainer, Pal Joey introduces u...

Born in Germany, Hermann Bellstedt immigrated to America in 1867, where his family settled in Cincinnati. A prodigy on the cornet, he played with Patrick Gilmore as cornet soloist and assistant to the...

Born in Germany, Hermann Bellstedt immigrated to America in 1867, where his family settled in Cincinnati. A prodigy on the cornet, he played with Patrick Gilmore as cornet soloist and assistant to the...

Born in Germany, Hermann Bellstedt immigrated to America in 1867, where his family settled in Cincinnati. A prodigy on the cornet, he played with Patrick Gilmore as cornet soloist and assistant to the...

Arranged for the trumpet duo Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer, this beautifully exciting setting utilizes excerpts from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen . It calls for the soloists to play trumpet, flugel...

Under Gypsy Skies in six brief movements was co-commissioned and premiered by Charles Geyer and Barbara Butler and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. The work is a realization of historic melodic styl...

Arranged for the trumpet duo Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer, this beautifully exciting setting utilizes excerpts from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. It calls for the soloists to play trumpet, flugelh...