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I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a popular song which has become a timeless favorite spanning across generations. With music by George Cory and lyric by Douglass Cross it became most well-known as the signature song of Tony Bennett. This band arrangement by Alfred Reed displays the wistful melody in a lush sonic canvas rich with the instrumental colors unique to a symphonic band. This edition…

for Concert Band-Italian Wedding Song is a lyrical very romantic song in G minor reminiscent in some ways of the music of Puccini and Verdi. Like Barnes' Yorkshire Ballad it is a brief solemn work perfect for teaching students to play in an emotional legato style. If you have a good Euphonium player this work is a must; it is an excellent choice for a moment of touching repose on your next …

for Concert Band-Italian Wedding Song is a lyrical very romantic song in G minor reminiscent in some ways of the music of Puccini and Verdi. Like Barnes' Yorkshire Ballad it is a brief solemn work perfect for teaching students to play in an emotional legato style. If you have a good Euphonium player this work is a must; it is an excellent choice for a moment of touching repose on your next …

for Concert Band-Prairie Winds Festival is a fast happy-go-lucky opener. It is very carefully scored and cross-cued so that almost any size band can perform it. The Piccolo 2nd Oboe 2nd Bassoon Contra-Alto Clarinet 3rd Trombone and Double Bass parts are all optional but if you have these instruments it will sound more full.

for Concert Band-If you have a large percussion section Credo might be a perfect piece for your young band. It is very carefully scored and cross-cued so that almost any size band can perform it. Composed in sonatina form it is highly energetic and tuneful and the bass instruments have lots of fun easy things to play. Like Prairie Winds Festival Credo is very safely scored with Piccolo 2nd…

The work opens with a dramatic brass fanfare before moving to a spirited allegro. The slower middle portion is rather jazzy in character with a trumpet solo. After several statements of this lush song the faster music returns before the opening fanfare reprises closing the piece in dramatic fashion. Includes generous cross-cuing to enable performances with smaller instrumentations.

Born in Havana Cuba in 1895 Ernesto Lecuona is arguably Cuba's greatest serious composer. He was a gifted pianist who wrote hundreds of songs and piano works before he died in 1963. Most of his music is composed in a rich authentic Cuban style. The most famous of his works is Malagueña the sixth movement of his Suite Andalucia for solo piano which was first published in 1928. Malagueña has …

When the Second World War began the British March King Kenneth J. Alford (pseudonym for Major F. J. Ricketts R.M.) was increasingly in bad health and had composed relatively little music recently. As Hitler's armies marched victoriously across Europe Britain was soon alone facing the Nazi peril. Alford's great contribution to the war effort was the composition of two of his great masterpieces …

When the Second World War began the British March King Kenneth J. Alford (pseudonym for Major F. J. Ricketts R.M.) was increasingly in bad health and had composed relatively little music recently. As Hitler's armies marched victoriously across Europe Britain was soon alone facing the Nazi peril. Alford's great contribution to the war effort was the composition of two of his great masterpieces …