Robert W. Smith

All sections of the band are featured in this arrangement for the holiday season. Following a full band introduction, individual choirs of the band present short holiday tunes. Each feature flows dire...

Written 60 years ago, this delightful holiday melody has been performed by all the greats including Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and a sleigh full of others. Now your first year band stud...

Take America's favorite Christmas melody and America's favorite march, arrange them with tender loving care, and you get good music and 'show biz' all wrapped in one. In the Sousa tradition, we predic...

Gustav Holst's beautiful melody serves as the foundation from which Robert W. Smith fashions this remarkable work. From a haunting single voice, a stunning climax is reached before giving way to a sim...

'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime' is a traditional Canadian carol which was originally written in the Huron Indian language by a Jesuit missionary. Robert W. Smith captures the mystique of the native I...

Based on the English carol 'Adeste Fidelis,' this sparkling new setting was written as an opener for a holiday concert or pageant. With Robert W. Smith's highly inventive trademark use of percussion a...

Subtitled 'A Holiday Prism for Band,' this work can be presented in a theater-in-the-round format or more traditionally on the concert stage. Following a broad introduction, each family of the band pr...

Written in honor of the mother of the arranger's wife and her musician children, each solo voice represents the chosen instrument of each individual. Woven together into an astonishingly moving, emoti...

Take America's favorite Christmas melody and America's favorite march, arrange them with tender loving care, and you have good music and showbiz all wrapped in one. In the Sousa tradition, your audien...

Here's a moving holiday work based on 'Silent Night.' Incorporating his technique for providing a soloist experience for any member of the ensemble (or a combination of players), Robert W. Smith has s...

Santa's reindeer are off and running with this playful holiday selection. Featuring 'Jingle Bells' and 'Up On The Housetop,' you can hear the hooves of the reindeer as they 'galop' across the wintery...

Santa begins his Christmas Eve journey with all of the joy an excitement we've come to expect during this magical time of the year. However, as the ride progresses, things become a bit hectic, to say...

Based on the classically familiar 'Greensleeves,' here is a poignant setting with musical lines from forceful to flowing. Robert W. Smith stamps the work with his unique sound sculpturing to give a hi...

Christmas lullabies, What Child Is This? and Lully, Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child, better known as The Coventry Carol, are intertwined musically. Introductory soloistic passages are written for each...