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Inspired by the poem of the same title by Wisconsin poet laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton. The poem celebrates the creative process and the creativity in all of us. This version for string orchestra has a pop sound that is sure to please students and audiences alike.

Like the Wind

String Orchestra Score & Parts

A fun an exciting work that uses a 12-bar blues form to explore various sixteenth-note rhythms in a funky groove that grows from soft to strong. Written for a band with a variety of experience levels, this piece has challenging first parts while keeping second and third parts more accessible. A fun tune for high schools with one band and a lot of percussionists that want to keep everyone engaged.

Slow Burn

Concert Band Score & Parts

A lively mix of call‑and‑response writing and a boot-stompin' groove gives this concert band piece a barn‑dance feel while weaving in familiar material from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. The blend of original music and the classical melody keeps the arrangement playful and approachable, creating a fun, upbeat selection that adds personality and charm to any holiday program.

Hallelujah Hootenanny

Inspire feelings of determination and our need to come together as a community with this uplifting work for concert band. This up-tempo tune has engaging melodies for everyone in the band and reaches an emotional climax in the final few measures. Includes alternate percussion parts for bands with smaller sections.

Determined Hearts

Beginning with a slow, lyrical ascending melody, this inspiring piece gradually transforms into a triumphant fast-tempo flourish with a soaring melody and sparkling percussion writing that will lift your spirits!

Ascendant

A lively mix of call‑and‑response writing and a boot-stompin' groove gives this string orchestra piece with optional percussion a barn‑dance feel while weaving in familiar material from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. The blend of original music and the classical melody keeps the arrangement playful and approachable, creating a fun, upbeat selection that adds personality and charm to any holiday program.

Set in 3/4 time, a bright take on Joy to the World gives this easy holiday arrangement for young bands a fresh feel. The writing stays accessible, with woodwind runs built entirely from familiar scale patterns so they can sound polished while being easy to practice. Clear scoring and a mature sound help younger players succeed while delivering a festive concert opener.

Fanfare on Joy to the World

Springtime Ride depicts a group of young people riding bikes through
  their neighborhood when the weather finally warms up enough to do so after a
  long winter. Inspired by movie and television scenes of kids on bikes,
  Springtime Ride has a fun and cinematic feel that young bands are sure to
  enjoy.

Springtime Ride

This four-movement suite depicts various scenes that take place in a fictional alternate history. Each movement features notable people alive in the Victorian era, including Charles Ives, Marie Curie, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, P.T. Barnum and Nikola Tesla. It borrows from popular music of the era, including the march, waltz, and the song "Daisy Bell." These are combined with sounds of clockwork and imagined steam technology.

Steampunk Suite

Echoes celebrates "The Kirkbride," a sprawling campus opened at
  the turn of the 20th century in Fergus Falls, MN, which formerly housed a
  hospital. The building has beautiful architecture, but has fallen into a
  state of neglect. "Echoes" was inspired by the beauty of the
  building that is hiding under layers of dust and disrepair. Echoes infuse the
  piece, with musical ideas being restated in close succession. The music
  reflects the nostalgia, conflict, and industriousness surrounding this
  beautiful building.

Echoes

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Band of Heroes is a "choose your own musical adventure," which includes a narrative powerpoint presentation that is coordinated with the music. At three points in the story, the audience votes on which direction the story and music should take next. The piece is inspired by choose your own adventure stories and text-based computer adventures popular in the 1980s, as well as fairy tale and fantasy tropes. For information on performance requirements, and a download of the free powerpoint, visit http://www.erikasvanoe.com/band-of-heroes.html

Band of Heroes

Concert Band Part

This piece for band was inspired by Florence and Alice Leduc, two sisters who founded and ran the Hastings Needle Work company from 1888-1922. It reflects the story of these two young women who used their creativity and needlepoint skills to create a successful business during a time when this was quite atypical for women. Alternating a bold and boisterous waltz with the more delicate sounds of fine needlework, this piece is sure to inspire your group to do great things!

Florence & Alice

Like the Wind was inspired by the poem of the same title by Wisconsin poet laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton. The poem celebrates the creative process and the creativity in all of us.

The majestic and noble toucan dons its tutu and prepares for its grand entrance. What will the toucan ballet entail? Nimble hops on delicate legs? Short but graceful flights across the stage? Rousing kicks? Dramatic splits? Perhaps the grand movement of its large, brightly colored beak would be the most effective use of its greatest asset. The toucan, inspired by other great birds of ballet, enters the stage, and begins to dance.

Tutued Toucan Can-Can

The title "Category 4" refers to Hurricane Harvey, classified
  as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This
  piece for Concert Band with iPad utilizes a large percussion section as well
  as an amplified iPad with the GarageBand application. This evocative work
  combines electronic sounds with the power of the concert band to full
  dramatic effect. 
    
    
    
     A full video tutorial for the iPad
  part can be found at https://www.erikasvanoe.com/category-4.html

Category 4

The Town Band celebrates the spirit of the many community bands that exist across the United States. Often there are specific pieces or styles of music played in these bands. These pieces tend to lend themselves well to outdoor summer concerts at the pavilion in the town square, or the band shell at the local park. This piece tries to capture some of these typical sounds and musical tropes, as well as highlight each section of the town band, giving each instrument family a moment to shine.

The Town Band

Adventurers! We need your help! The key to music has been stolen by a
  time traveling villain named Kronos and we need to return it to save music
  for all time! You'll need to pursue him in our time machine called M0Z4R+ to
  save the day. You pick up the following signals: the Jurassic Period, the
  Industrial Revolution and the Mesolithic Era. What time will you choose to
  pursue Kronos and find the key? The choice is up to you! 
    
    
    
    A Journey in Time is an "interactive musical adventure" for band.
  The piece includes a narrative presentation that takes the audience through a
  story where they must vote to decide which path the story and the music will
  go next during the performance. Inspired by choose your own adventure novels,
  text-based computer games, and time-traveling tropes, the piece gives
  audiences and students a unique interactive performance experience.

A Journey in Time

Clocktower Fanfare utilizes the 
  familiar chimes of the Westminster Quarters heard on many college
  campuses. This academic fanfare works well as a concert opener, as well as at
  graduation and commencement ceremonies.

Clocktower Fanfare

The Candy Factory is inspired by the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" starring Gene Wilder. Specifically, one scene in the movie features a colorful machine that creates the highly sought-after Everlasting Gobstopper. Students are sure to enjoy this sweet treat for concert band.

The Candy Factory

She Dares, She Leaps is a short fanfare for wind band that celebrates the determination, bravery, and boldness of women who have pushed beyond society's expectations of gender. The main melodic material features large leaps and scale passages that are constantly  moving up, representing the bold leaps and constant determined steps of women who push beyond boundaries. She Dares, She Leaps is dedicated to women musicians everywhere.

She Dares, She Leaps

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