Joseph Schwantner: "From a Dark Millennium"
Joseph Schwantner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, is most best-known in the wind world for ...and the mountains rising nowhere, and...
William Schuman: "New England Triptych - Be Glad Then America"
Below you can find information on the first movement of William Schuman's New England Triptych, entitled Be Glad Then, America. William...
William Schuman: "New England Triptych, II. When Jesus Wept"
Continuing with William Schuman's New England Triptych, you can find information on, and a recording of, the second movement, When Jesus...
William Schuman: "New England Triptych, III. Chester"
Today, we will continue with the music of William Schuman and begin a series of three posts on his New England Triptych. This piece, as...
Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry, another Percy Grainger classic for wind band, is certainly one of the more popular and one of the most...
Mendelssohn for Winds
Felix Mendelssohn's Overture for Winds has a long and somewhat problematic history in wind band music. Mendelssohn scored the piece for...