Partituras de Orquesta de viento de Manhattan Beach Music

Can there be a two-minute symphony? This work is certainly two minutes, and it does 'sound' like a symphony because there are symphonic elements in it: It has a clearly-stated theme, which is develope...

Can there be a two-minute symphony? This work is certainly two minutes, and it does 'sound' like a symphony because there are symphonic elements in it: It has a clearly-stated theme, which is develope...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Allegro Brillante' is the first movement of 'Dragonland' for band. The first performance (under the original title, 'A Short Symphony) 'was given by the L.E. Dieruff High School Concert Band, conducte...

Background In 1992 I composed a concerto for traditional jazz band and orchestra, 'Playing' 'With' 'Fire', for the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the San Antonio Symphony. That work was composed as a celebr...

Color by Bob Margolis, based upon tunes from Playford's 'English Dancing Master (1651)' and Jr. Jacob van Eyck's 'Der Fluyten Lust-hof'. Hear streaming audio on this page. Suitable for college and hig...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Fantasia Nova 'is a suite comprising two concert marches and a slow, middle movement that derives its themes from both marches. 'Ragtime '(composed in early September, 1978) is a 'new from old' sort o...

PROGRAM NOTE Festival in Russia is a transcription for concert band of Anatoli Liadov's dazzling orchestral work, 'Polonaise (Op. 49). 'Written at the turn of the century, its energetic dance rhythms...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Above all, 'Joy 'is an expression of its namesake: simple, unabashed joy. A boisterous, uninhibited quality is implied in the music, not only at climactic moments, but also by the frequent presence of...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

THE SHAKERS The Shakers were a religious sect who splintered from a Quaker community in the mid-1700's in Manchester, England. Known then derisively as 'Shaking Quakers' because of the passionate shak...

It was a happy coincidence that the commission for SINFONIA XVI: TRANSCENDENTAL VIENNA came from the Henry David Thoreau School located in Vienna, Virginia. Thoreau is one of the 'magic' names in Amer...