Celebration Overture (Revised edition)

Centennial Celebration Overture

Quarter Military Band QMB 456-Jacob's music reflects his love for simple lyrical folk-like melodies and craftman-like orchestration. Celebration Overture based on 1000 Men Of Harvard was his last completed work. For Symphonic Concert Band or Wind Ensemble.

Commemoration and Celebration Overture

Charleston Harbor Celebration was commissioned by the Charleston Community Band of Charleston South Carolina (Stephen B. Giove Conductor). The band commissioned the piece to honor its past conductors -- Earl R. Mays Edwin S. Toporek Herbert L. Day and John R. Spitler -- for their faithful service to education music and musicians. The piece itself is a concert overture that captures the beauty…

A Bandsman’s Overture was commissioned by British Bandsman magazine to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2012. It was premiered by Black Dyke Band conducted by Dr Nicholas Childs at a special anniversary concert held in Symphony Hall Birmingham on July 1st.British Bandsman was for a period known as British Bandsman and Contest Field following an amalgamation of two magazines. The then owne…

Celebrating its 130th anniversary the Woodstock City Band of Woodstock Illinois (at one time known as Spring City) commissioned this dynamic overture honoring the long-standing tradition of summer concerts in the historic town square. Joyous and celebratory in nature Spring City Overture features a dramatic opening segment that builds to the tuneful main theme. A brief reflective lyric section …

Overture to the Opera-Eulenburg Miniature Score edition of the Overture to Goacchino Rossini's most famous opera William Tell. Eulenberg's celebrated and highly authoritative miniature score is the definitive reference source for study performance preparation or simply for those with a love of the great orchestral works.

A Bluegrass Overture was commissioned by Gabriel Wooley and funded by a grant from Leslie and Cathy Anderson for the Central Kentucky Concert Band to celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2016.This energetic overture opens with an introduction loosely based on ’bluegrass’ chords before a slower legato chorale appears in the clarinets and flutes. This is short-lived and soon a new mood i…

Robert's fanfare-like overture is written in a style that students will love to learn and perform - a bold rhythmic style that will allow them to sound confident and impressive. Well-marked sensible articulation and dynamicsalso make it a very musical movement that could open most any concert performance.

This rousing jubilant overture mixes five original themes with the well-known doxology Old Hundredth which is also known as Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. The hymn is presented in short lyrical energetic motif fragments which combine until the complete hymn is presented in the form of a chorale prelude. This is a wonderful and truly uplifting concert work.

This short and lively overture will make a fantastic opening piece for any concert. It begins with the fanfare-like main theme played by the Clarinets and Saxophones which is taken up by the whole band. Following a slower central chorale the original tempo returns and the opening fanfares re-appear to bring the piece to a triumphal end.

Inspired by the bedroom community to New York City, this vibrant overture musically reflects the juxtaposition of the tranquility of nature in this quiet suburb with the busyness of modern-day life in the city. Set in ABCA form, the composition opens with a trickling melodic line depicting the beginning of the brook itself building to the energetic main theme. Musically exploring that dichotomy, t…

This rousing jubilant overture mixes five original themes with the well-known doxology Old Hundredth which is also known as Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. The hymn is presented in short lyrical energetic motif fragments which combine until the complete hymn is presented in the form of a chorale prelude. This is a wonderful and truly uplifting concert work.