Par WILLIAMS JOHN / HVEEM DAVID (Arr.). «Cantina Band (or «Mad About Me») was written by John Williams in 1977 for the film Star Wars (later Star Wars IV: A New Hope). Even with quite a bit of the Star Wars music being quite well known, Cantina Band is literally in a style of its own. In the Star Wars-universe this style is called «jizz», Williams’ take on the more well-known genre «jazz». William…

Arr. Jan De Haan. Par WILLIAMS JOHN. Avec cinq Oscars, trois British Awards décernés par l?industrie cinématographique britannique, trois Golden Globes, quatre Emmy Awards, dix-huit Grammy Awards, d?innombrables disques d?or et de platine, John Williams (1932) est le plus célèbre et le plus accompli de tous les compositeurs de musiques de film. Composant dans le style classique et possédant une fi…

Arrangeur: Andrew Duncan. Par WILLIAMS JOHN. Le thème musical de la requête originale d'image, né un quatrième juillet, mettant en vedette Tom Cruise. La musique a été composée par John Williams, et cet arrangement pour brass band est par Andrew Duncan. / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Répertoire / Brass Band

St. Michael. Par BOURGEOIS LOUIS. The French composer Louis Bourgeois lived from c. 1510 to 1560. Bourgeois was cantor in Geneva and, commissioned by John Calvin, he composed melodies for metrical (rhyming) versions of the psalms. After completing about a hundred one-part psalms, he made some four-part arrangements, which were denounced and even resulted in his imprisonment for a day. Later, Bourg…

Arrangeur: John Wasson. Par RODGERS RICHARD / HART L.. Cette norme intemporelle est habilement arrangée pour cordes par John Wasson, ce qui permet aux élèves de découvrir la beauté simple de ce mélodie dans un décor qui en fera sonore tout comme un orchestre de studio professionnel./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Fassung Iv. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. with the unfinished revision [1739] an an appendix. The St. John Passion ranks among the great vocal works from Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he made numerous changes. All previous editions of the St. John Passion have combined …

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn’s setting of Psalm 98 was written in a few weeks to satisfy a commission in his new position as general music director of Prussia and was premiered by the Berlin Cathedral Choir on 1 January 1844. As he neither released the work forpublication nor produced a vocal score, his psalm setting did not appear in print until after his death. For this edition t…

Johannespassion. Par HOMILIUS GOTTFRIED AUGUST. The oratorio Passions by Homilius were among the last compositions of their kind in the 18th century. In an oratorio Passion the chorus is restricted mainly to singing the chorales and the interjections of the crowd; only the conclusion of a Passion provides an opportunity for an extensive choral movement. In the St. John Passion the final chorus emp…

Arrangeur: James Curnow. Par WILLIAMS JOHN. L'excitation et l'apparat des Jeux olympiques sont animent avec cette transcription habile de thème original de John William, écrit pour les Jeux olympiques de 1984 à Los Angeles. Il semble impressionnant, mais ne place excessives aux demandes techniques sur les jeunes joueurs./ Répertoire / Orchestre D'Harmonie