HAFABRA Louis Martinus

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...

Don't think that Pascal Devroye has lost his rhythm during the composition of this piece - remember, he is a percussionist. He just wanted to have fun with the four notes of the well-know tune by Gers...

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...

If this title does not mean anything to you it certainly does to the composer, because for him the title is quite logical. His wife`s name is Pola and she comes from Hungary ! Like many other composer...

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...

Strange, lugubrious, sinister, astonishing, fascinating; these are the impressions that the moonlit landscape made on me before the first rays of sunrise. The more the day dawned, the more magical bec...

A Shaker Melody from 'The Lord of the Dance' Michael Flatley has used his vision, ambition, and peerless talent to bring an unprecedented glamour and popularity to traditional Irish step-dancing. The...

These dances represent surely some of the most beautiful moments from Russian opera repertoire. They are taken from the opera 'Prince Igor', left unfinished at Borodins death but completed three years...

This piece was written after Hardy Mertens asked me if I would write a competition finale piece for the Sardinian Band in which his girlfriend, Carla Correddu, was a flautist. He wanted a piece that w...

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...

This piece, originally entitled '2001 A Brass Odyssey', 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 g...

Non Potho Reposare I cannot rest ?at'assicuro ch'a tie solu bramo? a I assure you that I desire only you Canto della nostalgia. Nostalgic hymn. Non potho reposare, amore e coro I cannot rest, love of...

This piece is partly a tribute to an Irish troubadour named Percy French who lived from 1854 to 1920. Although not so many people outside Ireland have heard of his name he wrote the music and texts to...

7 parts + drum set