From March 2020 until April 2021, all wind and brass ensembles fell silent throughout Scotland due to the Coronavirus pandemic. As news broke of a potential return to making music, I composed this piece for my beginner wind band. It was the first piece of…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Vaughan Fleischfresser
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Reckless. Fearless. The dashing pirate crew lives for the thrill of adventure, the spray of the sea, the promise of treasure, and occasionally, debaucherous shore leave.But what happens when the crew have been wronged? Despite their disdain for law and order…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Adam Arnold
Publisher:
Brolga Music
This is one small step for a band, one giant leap for their collective musical careers. The band is strapping themselves in for the ride of a lifetime - that of a musician. It has taken loads of work to get to this point. They are as ready as they will ever…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Adam Arnold
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Unbounded Love is a simple fantasia on the hymn tune, ‘Blaenwern.’ This setting seeks to draw out the substance of the text and the narrative it possesses. The words tell of a love that was the “joy of heaven”, that “to earth come down”; it’s what Christians…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Written for Bill Buchanan, one of the preeminent music teachers in Queensland, …and tears no bitterness is a tribute and celebration of a nurturer and a developer of talent. Bill would most often commence a concert with his band playing ‘Abide With Me’. After…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music