Konzertwerke für Blasorchester

Using the centuries-old form of Passacaglia (slow dance with a ground bas of four measures), Broege here creates a delightful, inherently musical setting for young band as only he could create. Green...

Written in a traditional 12 bar blues form, this rollicking composition in rock style features great percussion writing, snappy melodies, and precisely written articulations. This is great material fo...

Written to commemorate the career of a longtime South Carolina educator and administrator, this fabulous band composition has everything a fine piece of music should contain: memorable melodies, snapp...

Written by a Colorado composer who himself is a middle school band director, this work was commissioned by and dedicated to the Franklin Middle School and of Greeley, Colorado. Vogel here displays a v...

Taking an extremely creative and engaging organ arrangement, by Joe Utterback,of an ancient tune, Tim Broege here displays his creativity and mastery of band scoring to shed a very unique and compelli...

The arranger draws on a rich bag of nursery rhyme songs and a fertile imagination to create one of the most exuberant band settings to come along in years! Snippets of familiar tunes are combined and...

The composer has created the quintessential western band composition here. Commissioned by the Malta, Montana high school band, the work was written to commemorate the Homestead Act of 1862 and the br...

If the trees could sing, this might be their theme song! In a debut published work , this Texas composer here gives the band world a gem of sweeping lyricism. The darker sonorities of the clarinet and...

Letting his vivid imagination run freely in his unique soundcape, Nitsch has created a delightful retrospective musical look back at the days of the American Revolution. The melodic materials are a co...

Many moods of the sea are portrayed in this varied and gripping musical scenario. The beginning evokes a tranquil sea, later being tossed by growing winds. The work builds to present the maelstrom of...

This is a gripping composition that takes the form of a stately fanfare. Using dotted rhythms, the motive of an ascending fifth, and very creative harmonies, Bobrowitz has created a unique and powerfu...

Showing his extreme versatility, composer Bobrowitz has created an authentic-sounding work in the early ragtime style. Every measure of this rag is charged with great scoring touches as the melodic li...

A composer closes his eyes and sits in his darkened studio. His mind becomes a stream of images that take him in many directions. From the fertile imagination of composer Bobrowitz comes this extremel...

Far too often in band music previous musical journeys are retraced with only slight variance from what has come before. In Retrospect is on the opposite end of the musical spectrum form such fare. It...

This set of five Renaissance pieces showcases three of history's finest composers: Josquin Desprez, Heinrich Isaac, and Ludwig Senfl. The unique harmonies and rhythms are retained here exactly as the...

Rob Grice has over-achieved in this soaring new work, destined to be a 'must-play' composition around the world! A middle school band director himself, Rob's music brings out the absolute best in youn...

Rising out of a mysterioso opening, this work goes boldly forth into an exciting main theme, propelled by a rhythmic low brass ostinato. Contrasting sections featuring beautiful melodies and counterme...

Intense excitement defines this dynamic new band work, from it's gripping introduction to the timpani driven, power chord ending. A single theme is taken through several contrasting sections, featurin...

Young Michigan composer Schoendorff brings not only tremendous craft but also an extremely original approach to his composition, exemplified here in a brash, whimsical piece that is mixed with a good...

Inspired by the harbor bridge in Duluth Minnesota, the western most tip of Lake Superior, this fine new work is a delightfully realized musical portrait. The structure of the composition is 'bridge-li...

An Appalachian folk tune gone wild! Using an obscure folk melody from the Southeast (Run Boys Run), the composer has created a riotously entertaining sound environment that intertwines his original th...

The arranging team of keyboardists Utterback and Broege have here come up with a stunningly evocative take on the old spiritual. This expressive arrangement is full of instrumental and harmonic surpri...

Coupling traditional ragtime melodies and rhythms with surprising contemporary harmonies, the composer has created a modern rag that is a 'must play' for all advanced ensembles. The excitement level s...

While experiencing a nasty winter storm complete with snow, ice and wind, the composer turned his thoughts to the tropical pleasures of the Caribbean. The music evokes the blue waters, gentle warm bre...

The arranger has taken five movements from the original eight movement late-Romantic Russian orchestral suite and transformed them into a very colorful suite for band. This suite of short movements fe...