Chris M. Bernotas

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Music often tells a story, and in this piece, each melodic line represents that idea. As the melodic lines weave together, it is the telling of a story that includes feelings of reflection, thought, a...

Chris always writes great melodies with very rich harmonies regardless of grade level. The 1st clarinets have a B natural which they need play only once. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C.

This work has a very nice melody and is a great introduction to easy independence. While the work is very easy, it gives the director to work on the students paying attention to articulation. No clari...

This composition has a patriotic and majestic quality which pays tribute to our men and women in service of our country. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C. Only the 1st clarinets cross the break.

This work is to honor the heroic efforts of the first landing of the moon in 1969. It has several contrasting sections from slow to faster and always wonderful melodies. Only the 1st clarinets cross t...

The first clarinets only cross the break at that is at the end of this song. 1st trumpet's highest note is C. It is a song that is playable right in the middle of the 1st beginning book. It is a good...

An exciting and brisk work. It sounds difficult, but is quite easy to play. 1st clarinets cross the break. 1st trumpet's highest note is D.

The percussion section introduces and drives this piece along. Images of knights on mighty steeds infuse the narrative, as the winds play long, lyric passages punctuated by contrasting elements.

A bold and exciting work that start slowly, quickly moves to a faster tempo, with a slow section in the middle, and ending with a dynamic and rhthmically excithing ending. The 1st trumpet's highest no...