In Powhatan County and Song of the James. Par HOSAY JOHN. Powhatan County, Virginia was named after the great Native-American Chief Powhatan, whose confederacy of tribes once dominated the costal Virginia plain. He is most remembered for being the father of Pocahontas. His people are best known as the Native Americans who helped the Jamestown colonists survive. Several of these original tribes sti…

from 'Faust'. Par GOUNOD CHARLES. L’histoire de Faust, qui vend son âme au diable en échange du savoir et du pouvoir, a toujours été une source d’inspiration pour de nombreux auteurs, poètes, régisseurs et compositeurs. Parmi ces artistes est le compositeur français Charles Gounod, dont l’opéra Faust fut interprété pour la première fois en 1859. Ce Choeur des Soldats ( Soldiers’ Chorus ) ravissant…

Par TYSHAWN SOREY. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association for a world premiere by the LA Phil New Music Group in January 2019, Tyshawn Sorey's gently tolling chamber work For Fred Lerdahl is dedicated to the elder composer on the occasion of Lerdahl's retirement. Sorey credits Lerdahl as one of two teachers who helped him to find his own voice as a composer. A single, 13-minute m…

During the visit to Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1940, Poulenc sketched a little piece for the children of his cousins: Sophie, Sylvie, Benoit, Florence and Delphine Périer, Yvan, Alain, Marie-Christine and Marguerite-Marie Villotte, and their two friends Marthe Bosredon and André Lecoeur. This took the form of a musical background to Jean de Brunhoff's popular illustrated children's story about Babar, a…

Par HEROLD LOUIS JOSEPH. Zampa (1831) ist eine der erfolgreichsten Opern von L. J. Ferdinand Héold, die heute noch auf der ganzen Welt auf den Opernspielplänen zu finden ist. Wil van der Beek arrangierte die Ouvertüre aus dieser Oper für Blasorchester. / Niveau : 5 / Ouverture / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par MUHLY NICO. Muhly's organ concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Artistic and Music Director, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Southbank Centre. Premiered on 23 February 2018 by James McVinnie (organ) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by James Conlon, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Org…

The decade of the audio Compact Disc, the 1980s brought Dire Straits a megahit album with Brothers In Arms. Elsewhere musical talent was going in all sorts of directions- the Eurythmics had a late blooming success with Love Is A Stranger and Madonna was looking for success de scandale with her video for Like A Virgin . It was in the 1980s that Bowie's Ashes To Ashes arrived like an instant classic…

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. Now your band can boldly go where no band has gone before, and bring the “final frontier” to your concert band stage! Here’s James L. Hosay’s imaginative new tone poem SPACE PROBE. Since the 1970's, NASA has been launching long-range, solar-powered probes into space. Over the past 30 years, the Voyager, Pioneer, and Galileo series’ probes have sent back incredible photographs. …

Par SALVADOR HENRI. Elphege PROISY (Arr. ) - Durée: 6'45 / Niveau : Assez Facile / Variétés françaises / Répertoire / Conducteur

First Movement. Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. Der russische Komponist Sergei Rachmaninov, geboren 1873 in Novgorod, studierte an den renommierten Konservatorien von St. Petersburg und Moskau. Er erlangte bereits in jungen Jahren großen Ruhm als Pianist in Russland - und bald darauf auch international. Auch als Dirigent und Komponist war er erfolgreich. Im Jahr 1917 ging er in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo…