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Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

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

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...

The discovery of the yellow metal at Sutter's Mill in California's Sacramento Valley in 1849 was only the beginning of subsequent gold-rushes to occur in the state. 'Gold-Rush Rag' was written to comm...

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...

Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians, a group of early French colonists who began settling in Acadia (now Nova Scotia) around 1604. In 1755 they were driven out by the British, eventually resettling...

A'bracadabra' was composed in the summer of 2004, and was orchestrated the following November during a residency at the MacDowell Colony. The piece is dedicated to my son, and is at once playful and s...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Program Note SINFONIA XVII: THE FOUR WINDS was commissioned by the Charles D. Evans Junior High School Band & Orchestra Boosters of Ottumwa, Iowa for the Evans Junior High School Wind Symphony, Philli...

Program Note SINFONIA XVII: THE FOUR WINDS was commissioned by the Charles D. Evans Junior High School Band & Orchestra Boosters of Ottumwa, Iowa for the Evans Junior High School Wind Symphony, Philli...

Blue Goose Rag, a piano rag by Raymond Birch, arranged for concert band by Timothy Broege.