Category: Essays on Repertoire

Surely M. Bochsa has written one of the best pieces I have ever heard out of that period of creative obliteration that we call Beethoven’s. Bochsa obvious...

I would really have no hesitation in placing this composition ahead of the other works of Berlioz: it is noble and elevated from the first note to the last, a s...

Victory Symphony for Large Band There is no mistaking the claws of the Lion. An early critic In the Prussian National Library in Berlin there is a manuscript sc...

I. Adagio-AllegroII. AdagioIII. Maestoso un poco adagioIV. Poco presto I have never been interested in writing for the popular demand. To enlighten the public h...

This score, consisting of music taken from Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, Euryanthe, scored for large wind band in 1844 by Wagner, is one of the most impor...

First of all, I believe it is important to acquaint the reader with the fact that Wagner was very familiar with and often heard military band concerts and never...

In 1958, while a student at the University of Michigan I auditioned for and was selected as associate first horn in the American Wind Symphony, a summer concert...

This is an important composition in the repertoire of the band. In part this is so because Brahms wrote very few instrumental compositions, apart from the piano...

Because wind instruments are more practical for performance outdoors than string instruments, the history of the band includes a great many short works designed...

Beginning during the nineteenth century in Italy one finds a very large repertoire of original Sinfonias composed for the various civic bands. These are all one...