A unique work that introduces several contemporary compositional techniques including aleatoric and improvisatory material, jazz-inflected writing and an involved chromatic melodic sense, all within highly atmospheric settings. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Dedicated to Dr. Donald Hunsberger, Textures was premiered in 1979 by the UCLA Wind Ensemble. Contemporary and exciting! Learn More

This major work is based on folk tunes from Chapala, Jalisco and Guadalajara as heard by Dr. Reed during visits to these areas in the late 1940s. Previously only available for orchestra on rental, LA FIESTA MEXICANA was originally written for concert band and later rescored for orchestra by the composer. Learn More

Buckley, recently retired as Conductor of the United States Coast Guard Band, is also well known as a composer, arranger, and trumpet performer. In Sandburg Reflections, he has created intriguingly subtle and whimsical settings of several of Sandburg's poems for mezzo-soprano and wind ensemble, a much needed addition to our wind band repertoire. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Features I. Good Babies Make Good Poems, II. Fog, III. Ezra (Pound), IV. Jazz Fantasia. Learn More

Scored for trumpet soloist Wynton Marsalis, Donald Hunsberger's band accompaniment arrangement of Fantasie Brillante No. 3 in Jean-Baptiste Arban's collection of Fantasias and Variations possesses a breadth of musical styles that demand strict formal analysis in addition to interpretative and technical requirements. The opening section features a flowing melodic passage followed by a technical passage with a return to the style of the opening melody. The theme is then stated which leads into three variations that employ variants in triplet groupings, quadruple 16th-note groupings, and finally, the ever-present triple tonguing, once again a primary technical resource utilized in this and others of the Fantasias. Fantasie Brillante is one of eleven solos in the Marsalis/Hunsberger Carnaval project. The recital version of all eleven trumpet solos with piano accompaniment is available in one book for soloist use in preparation or for recital performance (00-35429). Hunsberger's band accompaniments for all eleven solos are available from Alfred either for sale or as rental works. Recordings of all eleven tunes performed by Wynton Marsalis with band accompaniment (performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Donald Hunsberger) remain available from Sony BMG Music Entertainment, on iTunes and a variety of other retail sources. A truly remarkable sparkling collection to feature your trumpet soloist. Learn More

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Composed in the summer of 1909, Rachmaninoff's third Concerto for Piano was premiered in November of that year with the composer as soloist, though he was forced to practice the work on silent keyboard he brought with him for the journey to the United States.  The first performance took place with the New York Symphony Society under Walter Damrosch, though a second performance took place only a few months later with the New York Philharmonic, Gustav Mahler conducting, an experience the composer treasured.  Rachmaninoff considered this piano concerto his favorite of those he wrote.  Dedicated to Josef Hofmann, who the composer considered the greatest pianist of the time, this work has a reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard piano repertoire. Learn More

Yes, this is the same arrangement you have played a hundred times. But, now it's available with a full conductor's score and manageable page turns in the parts. It just wouldn't be the Fourth of July without this great piece of Russian music. You may now throw out your old copy! Learn More

Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel. It was commissioned by and dedicated to Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi, great-niece of the influential violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano. Durand reprint with violin solo part edited by Endre Granat. Learn More

Over the years, Ron Nelson has proven his compositional virtuosity time and again. With Passacaglia (homage on the tones represented in the name B-A-C-H), his efforts were rewarded by winning the Ostwald Award, the National Band Association Composition Contest, and the Sudler International Wind Band Composition Contest. A set of continuous variations built on a repeating (in various voicings) eight-measure melody appearing, in all, twenty five times, make this a significant work where every player is challenged. Nelson aptly describes it as seamless series of tableaux moving from darkness to light. Learn More