HAFABRA Louis Martinus

4 parts + perc.

This piece was commissioned by the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland to be premiered in the year of its title. I had written a piece which ran the gamut of human moods and emotions, from the ag...

Imagine you are on a boat which is gradually building up speed pulling gently out of Geneva. You get your first view of the beautiful Lac Leman which provokes a melody in your head first heard played...

Coconut woman - Island in the sun - Jump in the line

Flexible instrumentation:

War and peace - The Godfather love theme - Romeo and Juliet love theme - Rocco and his brothers - The leopard - La dolce vita - Sunset sunrise - La strada

In 1992 I attended a band festival in the south of France where I met the conductor of a fanfare band from Luxembourg, Robert Köller. He was kind enough to say some encouraging words to me about one o...

The Introduction is in an A-B-A form where the first fanfare-like majestic theme passes from group to group of the instrumentation. This is followed by a dialog duet between alto saxophone and euphoni...