Promo CD: Grand Mesa Music - New Concert Band Music for 2010-2011

Bucimis Traditional / Arr. Bob Lipton

This traditional Bulgarian line dance in 15 (written as a bar of 4/4 followed by a bar of 7/8) will happily introduce both your band and audience to the rich musical traditions of Eastern Europe. This arrangement, which closely reflects the original, builds to a frenzy of joy. Your students will have fun and be culturally enriched while expanding their musical horizons.

Song from Ireland Stan Purvis

A remarkable new arrangement of the immortal Irish ballad "Danny Boy", this is a band setting not to be missed! It includes many highly expressive moments and opportunities for rubato style, as well as many wonderful moving inside lines that sustain the intensity of the setting. Use this beautiful arrangement to teach your band to play in a singing style!

Contambience Fanfare* John Bogenschutz

A sizzling concert opener with some unique touches (including the use of marching bass drums), this amazing fanfare could dazzle your audience and totally grab their attention. It could also be a great feature for a precocious trumpet player who can handle a lyrical solo in the spotlight. Rev up your band with this remarkably unique and powerful work!

The Wayfarer's Journey Douglas Akey

Using "The Wayfaring Stranger" as a basis for a freewheeling set of theme and variations, composer Akey has created a remarkably colorful musical tableaux. The work opens mysteriously with a recorder solo (cued in clarinet), and progresses through a widely varied musical scenario with many creative rhythmic and scoring touches. This could easily be the most memorable work of th ...

Scenes from Old Russia Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky / Arr. Kenneth Singleton

The piano music of Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky is here expanded into a grand Russian soundpiece for large wind orchestra, much in the tradition of Maurice Ravel's great orchestral settings. Singleton brings a remarkable level of scoring ability to this arrangement of little-known but charismatic piano gems. Be sure to explore the pleasures of this classic with your experienced w ...