Roland Smeets

Nearly all of the Strauss family contributed to make Vienna the capital of the waltz, but history will mainly remember Johann Strauss the son as the 'King of the Waltz'. The Emperor waltz was composed...

Filmed in 1977 by David Hamilton who specialises in aesthetic filming, this drama, written by Pierre Loui??s, show us the awakening of the senses of a young teenager, Bilitis. The French composer Fran...

Duo for soprano and alto saxophones

Not surprisingly, the success of Latin music touches the entire world and 'Chiquita Banana Song' is surely one of the most famous Latin spoofs of all. The tune was published in 1946 and was used for m...

This original composition for wind band by Roland Smeets was composed for the 25th Play-In which is organised every year in Belgium and conducted by the well known Belgian clarinet player Walter Boeyk...

Leaden Sunlight was composed in homage to the 26 million men, women and children of all nations who died from hunger, cold, illnesses, torture, or murder in the Nazis concentration and extermination c...

In June 1944, at 21.30 hrs, C-47 Dakota and Albermale aircraft, pulling about 200 gliders, took off from their bases. The first wave had on board 'Pathfinders' - scouts specially trained to mark out t...