Concert and Contest Band Music

This epic work evokes moods, events, and sounds, including West African drumming and indigenous melodies, inspired by an ethnomusicological research visit to Nigeria. A primary musical theme is an

One of the most popular of all contemporary choral works, Eriks Esenvalds' Stars is a work of shimmering beauty, a vision of 'beating hearts of fire' seen overhead on a still, dark night. Phillip

Long Road has the simple sincerity of a hymn yet is is both beautiful and lush. At the midway point a gentle susurration of bell-sounds, descant recorders and tin whistles appear over sustained

Jonathan Dove's rousing setting of Tennyson's poem, made famous in his choral cycle 'The Passing of the Year' is here given a thrilling new life as a concert band showpiece. Phillip Littlemore's exuberant

A nostalgic vision of childhood relived through dreams, this is a work of subtlety - yet it is powerful and expressive. The music has an incandescent freshness; the flugelhorn soloist heard at the opening

Salutation was originally composed for a cappella choir to a poem by Bengali poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The music takes up the spiritual message of the poem, that we live

Beautifully crafted to convey simple wonder and joy, this arrangement of the famous Music for a Found Harmonium perfectly captures the exuberance of this uplifting music.

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, founded by composer Simon Jeffes, knew better than anyone how to create an incredibly catchy hook. This brilliant arrangement for concert band by Phillip Littlemore of