Donald Hunsberger Wind Library

David Liptak chose a route to writing this composition that has been most widely recognized and acclaimed by Aaron Copland in his various settings of Americana such as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Bi...

Scatterday has compiled a group of Renaissance works and scored the individual compositions with flexible scoring opportunities for wind ensemble so that any combination of instruments desired can be...

A unique work that introduces several contemporary compositional techniques including aleatoric and improvisatory material, jazz-inflected writing and an involved chromatic melodic sense, all within h...

Recording of the United States Coast Guard Band, Lieutenant Kenneth W. Megan, Director

John Williams has rightfully earned a place in the hearts of all film lovers with his numerous brilliant scores to some of the best movies of the last half century. Capable of writing music ranging fr...

Rhapsody In Blue

This work, originally written for organ, was the initial offering in the DHWL. The organ and the contemporary wind band share numerous timbre and sound projection properties as well as sharing philoso...

One of J. S. Bach's most recognizable compositions, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565 is truly a masterpiece of inventiveness which displays the tonal and technical capabilities of either the or...

Haydn's 'most perfect concerto,' originally written for soloist and orchestra, was conceived to display the capabilities of the then newly invented valve trumpet. This Robert Rumbelow setting for solo...

The music included in Dancin' into the '20s has been chosen to reflect some of the styles of music and corresponding use for exhibition and social dancing during the years leading into the 1920s. Each...

Rogers describes these dances as 'acts of fancy.' The dances include: 'Dance with Pennons,' 'Mourning Dance' (for off-stage soprano solo), and 'Dance with Swords'. They are dazzling in color yet rich,...

Confrey is known primarily for his 'novelty piano' compositions, which cultivated the style of Jelly Roll Morton and Scott Joplin. This arrangement of one of his compositions conjures an image of the...

Harrison's Dream is a musical depiction of the forty-year effort by John Harrison during the first half of the 18th century to develop a chronometer capable of providing exact time on the high seas. H...

Harrison's Dream is a musical depiction of the forty-year effort by John Harrison during the first half of the 18th century to develop a chronometer capable of providing exact time on the high seas. H...

The wind accompaniment to George Gershwin's popular piano solo, 'Rhapsody in Blue,' is based upon the 1924 and 1926 Grofe editions for jazz band and theatre orchestra. Donald Hunsberger has scored thi...

Under Gypsy Skies in six brief movements was co-commissioned and premiered by Charles Geyer and Barbara Butler and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. The work is a realization of historic melodic styl...

Arranged for the trumpet duo Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer, this beautifully exciting setting utilizes excerpts from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. It calls for the soloists to play trumpet, flugelh...

Double Woodwind Quintet with Optional String Bass

As part of the Butler/Geyer performance and recording project [See Carmen Fantasia (DHM0406) and Under Gypsy Skies (DHM 0403) and Carmen Fantasia (DH002CD), A Stephen Foster Sett was created to provid...

Buckley, recently retired as Conductor of the United States Coast Guard Band, is also well known as a composer, arranger, and trumpet performer. In Sandburg Reflections, he has created intriguingly su...

The Barbara Butler/Charles Geyer project was designed to create works that would showcase the multiple talents of the talented trumpet duo (also husband and wife!). The works included in the project a...

Among all of Rachmaninoff's works known to today's concert audiences, no work bears the high reputation of his haunting Vocalise, a work without text for soprano and keyboard. It has been cast into nu...