This Mozart-inspired work, completed in January of 1877, was the first composition by Tchaikovsky for cello and orchestra.  While for many the years, Variations on a Rococo Theme was only known in a version heavily edited by Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, to whom the work was dedicated, this edition by Paul Tobias and A. Stogorski is reconstructed to the original version. Learn More

The final work composed by Mozart for the Salzburg Cathedral, the original title of this sacred choral composition, VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor) did not include "de confessore," which was added later by another hand to Mozart's manuscript, suggesting that the work was intended for vespers held on a specific day of the liturgical calendar of saints ("confessors"), though the saint has never been established.  Structurally, the work is very similar to VESPERAE SOLENNES DE DOMINICA (K.321), that Mozart composed the year prior in 1779.  Movements: 1. Dixit Dominus, 2. Confitebor, 3. Beatus Vir, 4. Laudate Pueri, 5. Laudate Dominum, 6. Magnificat Learn More

A varied and impressive work sure to become a staple of the repertoire of advanced bands! Cast in five movements, Hearshen's divertimento is the quintessential reflection of the multicultural American experience, melding popular and traditional musical styles indigenous to the United States, Europe and Cuba.  Movements: I. Ragtime, II. Blues, III. Mambo Loco, IV. Susan's Song, V. March of the Little People. 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. Features I. Good Babies Make Good Poems, II. Fog, III. Ezra (Pound), IV. Jazz Fantasia. Learn More

The great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's poem "Peer Gynt," one of his greatest works, tells the tale of a young man so full of bravado, exuberance of spirit, wanderlust, and wantonness, that his road will inevitably lead to perdition unless saved by a woman, much as in Goethe's "Faust."  The likewise great Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg, was asked by Ibsen in 1874 to write incidental music to accompany the play, to which Grieg reluctantly agreed.  Over a decade after composing the full incidental music, Grieg extracted eight movements and divided them into two four-movement suites, both of which were highly successful and the only way one could hear the music Grieg wrote for the play for many years as the original score was not published until 1908, one year after the composer's death.   "Suite No. 1" includes: I. "Morning," II."The Death of Åse," III. "Anitra's Dance," and IV. "In the Hall of the Mountain-king."  To make this edition as accessible as possible, clarinet, trumpet, and horn include both the original instrument key and a transposition part to those instrument keys in common use today.  The tenor trombone parts, originally written in tenor clef, also include a bass clef part for ease of use.  Instrumentation: 2+Picc.2.2.2: 4.2.3.1: Timp.Perc(2): Str(9.8.7.6.5). Learn More

Mike Lewis takes a variety of tunes and styles and mixes them in original and unusual ways, giving us a fresh look at some beloved American standards: "Moonlight Serenade," "Blue Moon," and "How High the Moon." Learn More

Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra is an attempt to realize in music three different states of man’s soul in his quest for ultimate perfection. The Lotus Sutra is the teaching of human respect, self-perfection and world peace – in a word, humanism, leading mankind from division to unity, from discord to harmony, from conflict to peace. I. The first movement, Awakening, (To Awaken to the Light of the Universe) portrays the vastness and richness of the experience of the human mind on expanding its field of view from the narrow confines of daily life to the contemplation of, and merging with, the entire universe. II. Contemplation (To Contemplate the Depths of the Soul) represents a turning-away of the mind from the “outer” to the “inner” universe -- the attempt to fathom the limitless possibilities of the human consciousness in its quest for identity, to answer the eternal questions beginning with the word “Why?” III. Rejoicing (To Rejoice in the Beauty of Peace) depicts the realization that, while on earth, peace is not merely the absence of war, destruction, pain and suffering, but a thing of beauty in and of itself, and an occasion for heartfelt rejoicing on the part of all men everywhere, who share the same eternal quest as true brothers. This suite was commissioned by, and is reverently dedicated to, Rissho Kosei-kai, on the occasion of the 77th birthday of its founder and president, the Reverent Nikkyo Niwano. Program notes extracted from the Wind Repertory Project. Learn More

Fourteen quartets of various instrumentations are featured in this exciting and vibrant work. The work varies both mood and texture, all the while moving forward with urgent rhythms and compelling harmonic and melodic drive. This is Roger Cichy at his best. Learn More

Using a slightly smaller orchestra (no low brass, only 2 horns), Mike Lewis gives us a light, bright treatment of this famous Jobim bossa nova.  2.1(+EH).1(+BCl).2: 2.2.0.0: Gtr.Pno.JzBs: Perc(2): Str(9-8-6-7-5). Learn More