Drums of Rwanda celebrates the struggle of the people of Rwanda to overcome the tremendous forces of evil using the Rwanda National Anthem adopted in 2001.Program NotesFrom April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The Echo Never Fades is an absolute gem! Don't overlook this when looking for a moving and memorable work. The touching melody is used to feature several soloists between creative and impelling contrasting sections. It's what we've grown to expect from this…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Inspired by the recent wildfires in Australia, Firestorm seeks to emulate through music, these fires ranging from their most raging peeks to their more waning lulls.Program NotesFirestorm was commissioned by the Byron Center Band Program, Byron Center,…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Foster's America" is a three-movement suite featuring four original songs by American composer, Stephen C. Foster - "A Penny for Your Thoughts," "Beautiful Dreamer," "If You've Only Got a Moustache" and "Gentle Lena Clare" - arranged by the inimitable David…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Foundations is a fantasy on the popular hymn The Church's One Foundation. This challenging work for symphonic band features Gillingham's signature percussion writing and beautiful scoring in the context of a powerful tone poem.Program NotesFoundations was…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Galctic Empires is a dramatic tone poem telling of a musical journey through only three of an infinite number of galaxies, two foreign and one which is our own - Battlestar of the Andromeda Nebula, Eveningstar of the Magellanic Cloud and Earthstar of the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Concerto No. 1 for Marimba…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham, M. Lasley
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Inspired by the many haunted houses in the popular southern city in Georgia, Ghosts of Savannah is a tone poem that summons all the spirits of the city as they converge and stand atop the gravestones and stomp their feet in an effort to summon more spirits…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Gillingham has created a lovely uplifting fantasia on the hymn tune 'Engleberg' full of his brilliant signature scoring. Glorified is broken down into 5 sections plus a rousing coda.Program NotesGlorified was commissioned by the Messiah College Symphonic…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The Greatest of These is a warm, beautiful work that features Gillingham's colorful scoring. It is a work that embodies love, pure and true.Program NotesThe Greatest of These was commissioned by the Byron Center Band Program in Byron Center, Michigan, in…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications