A Lo Menos Amemos is a work for winds, percussion, strings, and SAB choir based on a beautiful love poem by the Spanish poet Amado Nervo called "Amemos" (in English, "Let's Love"). The lyrics propose an optimistic outlook on life‘s uncertainties, proclaiming…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Set in D locrian mode (with notes of the E-flat major scale), this is a dark, engaging work that plays with the word "Centrifugal," which refers to the force that acts on objects within a rotating frame, directing them away away from the axis (e.g. the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Dancing in a circle is an ancient tradition common to many cultures for marking special occasions, rituals, strengthening community, and encouraging togetherness. Circle Dance employs the idea of fifths and their musical relationships in combination with…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Joseph Turrin
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Elegy for Bass Trombone & String Quartet elicits the multifaceted feelings of grief beginning with the trombone playing a solemn lyrical line in A minor against a quiet backdrop of ascending sixteenths of intervals of sixths and fifths in the string…
Style:
Brass, String
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Based on a poem by an 8th grade student titled "Everything is Variant," Jubilant Overture is filled with sparkling colors and vivid images of all four seasons.Program NotesJubilant Overture was commissioned by the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School Gold Band,…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Joseph Turrin
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Juxtaposing two original these, each representing soul and creativity,"Rising Star pays a musical tribute to the life of a student who was taken too soon.Program NotesRising Star was commissioned by parents Tom & Karen Wilson, and sister Jodi Guzak in…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Set the World on Fire is a breathtaking work for SATB choir and wind ensemble using quotes from the writings of St. Catherine of Siena. "You are an ever-burning fire; You are a fire which drives away all coldness and illumines minds with its light, and with…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications