Itamar Danziger

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This is a 3-movement piece, echoing various Klezmer forms:
    
    Hora is a regal dance form, usually in a 3-meter, and represented in the
  first movement.
    
    
    
    Nigun is a singable/hummable tune, 
  as represented in the second movement. This movement also echos
  various Hanukkah themes.
    
    
    
    Freilakh is a fast dance, with a clear sense of syncopation.
    
    
    
    This piece was composed in 2017, and is dedicated to David Davidson and the
  Kitchener Musical Society Band (KMSB), who encouraged me to compose this
  piece.

Latkes Suite

Concert Band Score & Parts

Voice

This song's lyrics are composed for bass voice and piano by Itamar
  Danziger, with lyrics by Kelly Peasgood. It is meant to convey hope when
  disillusionment is tempting.

Reach for the Stars

Bass Book

This Klezmer-informed piece is dedicated to Mike Keddy - a conductor who
  is dedicated to a high quality of musicianship.
    
    
    
    The piece is called Arbutus Dance due to a road trip which the composer and
  Mike took, which included enjoying the presence of the Arbutus Trees.

Arbutus Dance

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This is an evocatively joyous yet somber and semantic piece. 
    
    
    
    It is dedicated to Elie and Elie Wolfe

The Wolfe Nigun

Piano Solo

This party concert band piece echoes Hannukah/Hanukkah themes, and is
  influenced by elements of Klezmer music.
    
    
    
    Its initial somber (i.e. "Darkness") part works up to the more
  joyous ("Light") part

From Darkness into Light on Hannukah

A playfully sentimental duet for Bb Clarinet and Bass Clarinet

The Frog and the Reed

Bass Clarinet Duet

A piece for Bb Clarinet and Piano, meant to invoke the awakening feeling
  often associated with the Spring Season.

Spring

Clarinet Solo

This piece is dedicated to Gideon de Beer - who like a Lullaby, is a nourishing person.

Lullaby

This original piece incorporates Passover song themes into a klezmer piece for Concert Band orchestra.

This original piece incorporates Passover Haggadah/Seder themes into a klezmer piece. It is dedicated to Leon and Bonnie Wasser. Play time is about 6 minutes.

From Slavery to Freedom on Passover

This piece is an ode to a wonderful person, Darren Rich. Darren is a pilot, flight instructor, and trombone player. While the Greater Victoria Concert Senior Band (GVCB) was, was rehearsing a composition of mine, Darren reached out to me to negotiate a certain trombone passage. I felt honored and impressed: I found it very inspiring that a musician will take such steps to make music as personable as possible! While I thought (and still think) I owe Darren a big thank you, Darren went on to give me an aerial tour of Victoria, British Columbia, when I came to hear the GVCB perform. This piece highlights the Trombone section. Stylistically, it combines elements of Jig and Ladino musical styles, symbolizing the versatility of styles that I have heard GVCB engage with.

172 Trombones

Lyrics by Kelly Peasgood: When [A] still but a chi-ld, I'd reach up / to grasp at the stars for to hold them / with the palm of my ha-nd closing tight / yet never did I catch m-y dream / Slow [B] tears of bitterest memories / I'd hide in the fall of the rain / 'neath clouds full of sorrow and emptiness /I'd weep for my failure and pain / I [C] hold to the dream high above my head / the stars close, yet so far away from me / I know one day, I'll surely catch that light / and hold heaven's fires to m-y heart. The fancies of childhood will fade away / and wisdom will grow in its place Yet ever those stars beckon in the night / should I ever brave reaching to space / [D] interlude As [E] time measures new years and fu-tures unfold / and life brings new meaning to my days / I glance at the stars that shine above / and remember what I used to dream I'd [F] reach for the stars high above my head / I'd wish on the promise of light / I'd hold tight to dreams running through my heart / then I'd wake to the darkness of night The [G] stars, they fell away from me / yet burned bright in to my mind's eye- / Where the hopes of a young child might live once again / and answer the heart's crying Just [H] reach for the stars that shine high above / don't lose faith in what you can do / a dream never loses its honesty / unless shattered by bitter re- [I] -gret Interlude If I [J] stop grabbing stars and look all around / I find beauty surrounding me- / and the stars / they ignite my dreams here I soar to the skies on m-y own / I [K] dance with the world that I call my home / the stars keeping track of my flight / the power of a dream holds my head on high / as my hands hold on tight to a hope A [L] dream that I might weather / the lost years that I gave awa-y / don't let bitterness hold you fast / reach high for your dreams, let them in-

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This 'regal' piece is called "Andalusian Dance" due to its use
  of Andalusian cadences (a harmonic/chord progression). Playing time is about
  4:10 minutes.

Andalusian Dance

This original klezmer-esque piece echoes themes of Hannukah music. Ca. 8
  minutes

String Orchestra Score & Parts

This is a concert band arrangement for concert band of the traditional "Happy Birthday to You" song. Good for grade 2 band and beyond.

Happy Birthday

When [A] still but a chi-ld, I'd reach up / to grasp at the stars for to hold them /
with the palm of my ha-nd closing tight / yet never did I catch m-y dream /
Slow [B] tears of bitterest memories / I'd hide in the fall of the rain /
'neath clouds full of sorrow and emptiness /I'd weep for my failure and pain /
I [C] hold to the dream high above my head /
the stars close, yet so far away from me /
I know one day, I'll surely catch that light /
and hold heaven's fires to m-y heart.
The fancies of childhood will fade away / and wisdom will grow in its place
Yet ever those stars beckon in the night / should I ever brave reaching to space /
[D] interlude
As [E] time measures new years and fu-tures unfold /
and life brings new meaning to my days /
I glance at the stars that shine above /
and remember what I used to dream
I'd [F] reach for the stars high above my head /
I'd wish on the promise of light /
I'd hold tight to dreams running through my heart /
then I'd wake to the darkness of night
The [G] stars, they fell away from me /
yet burned bright in to my mind's eye- /
Where the hopes of a young child might live once again /
and answer the heart's crying
Just [H] reach for the stars that shine high above /
don't lose faith in what you can do /
a dream never loses its honesty /
unless shattered by bitter re- [I] -gret
Interlude
If I [J] stop grabbing stars and look all around /
I find beauty surrounding me- /
and the stars / they ignite my dreams here
I soar to the skies on m-y own /
I [K] dance with the world that I call my home /
the stars keeping track of my flight /
the power of a dream holds my head on high /
as my hands hold on tight to a hope
A [L] dream that I might weather /
the lost years that I gave awa-y /
don't let bitterness hold you fast /
reach high for your dreams, let them in-

Solo with Piano

This sentimentally joyous piece combines Klezmer with Jazz elements.
  
    
    
    
    It is dedicated to Naomi Burger, a friend of the composer, for Naomi's
  birthday.

Naomi's Nigun

Like many klezmer pieces, this upbeat klezmer-styled piece gives tribute
  to the location (Kitchener, Ontario), where the piece was composed. It was
  premiered by the Kitchener Musical Society Band, under the baton of Dave
  Davidson. Playing time is about 2,5 minutes.

Kitchener Bulgar

This Klezmer-esque piece is an ode to P.A.L.L. - a friend who insists on
  prioritizing justice, when none is offered. She stands up for those whose
  voices are muffled.

An Ode to an Unsung Hero

This part fits the Saxophone (and the Clarinet) Quartet versions of this piece available on JWPepper

Saxophone Quartet

This original piece visits Hannukah motifs as it travels from somber beginnings to Joyful dancing.

From Darkness into Light at Hannukah

Saxophone Quartet-AATB Quartet

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