Looking for something fun to play and sure to be a crowd pleaser? This is a historically "American" work, written by a German immigrant composer, and dedicated to an American president. Put this on your
Looking for a great concert opener? This short, highly animated fanfare packs a lot of excitement into a small amount of time. Great thematic writing, powerful brass chords, soaring horn lines, sweeping
Early American folk tunes and composed hymn tunes provide delightful, spirited melodies which offer present-day opportunities for exploration of new harmonies and rhythms. Oliver Holden's hymn
Fanfare and Frolic is a mixture of the serious and the not-so-serious.... The fanfare is stately in an A-B-A format with the middle section in contrast, not unlike the trio of a march. The 'Frolic'
An exciting work for advanced concert band. This single-movement composition is divided into four scenarios which the composer calls "stories without words," suggesting romance, comedy, adventure, and
Proem and Scamper was originally composed for the Charlottesville Horn Club, then transcribed for saxophones. The short 17-measure proem (a fourteenth century term for preface or prelude) is