Composers Datebook: Andrew Boyson
Below is the text and the audio link for Composers Datebook from Sunday, May 8. Andrew Boysen Jr.'s Symphony No. 1, a piece for winds,...
Ondes Martenot on Composers Datebook
Today's Composers Datebook featured an instrument that is not particularly well-known, but important to any discussion of the music of...
Giannini: Symphony No. 3
See the text and audio link from today's Composers Datebook that highlights Giannini's Symphony No. 3 for band. Composers Datebook Audio:...
Composers Datebook: Hanson, "Laude"
See below the post and audio link from Composer's Datebook for today featuring Howard Hanson's work for wind band, Laude. Audio Link for...
Composers Datebook: For the Birds
Today on Composers Datebook, you can read about Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques, which will be performed by UMWO on our April 1 concert. The...
Percy Grainger: Colonial Song
Grainger's Colonial Song certainly unique when considered alongside many of Grainger's works. The piece began as a piano solo for his...
Richard Wagner - "Trauermusik"
Written for the moving of Carl Maria von Weber's body from London back to Germany. The piece was composed for a large wind band and uses...
Charles Ives: "Country Band March"
Charles Ives is a composer that has not been discussed on this blog as of yet. Although Ives is not a composer that we generally consider...
Mozart: C-minor Serenade, K. 388
Please see today's blog post from Dave Wacyk, one of our graduate conducting students, who will be conducting the first two movements of...
Percy Grainger: "Duke of Marlborough Fanfare"
Written for a brass ensemble, Percy Grainger's Duke of Marlborough Fanfare is a shorter work for winds that, in many ways, is an...
