Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837498 Composed by William Shield. Arranged by Brett L. Wery. Classical. Score and parts. 272 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5776765. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837498). The score is formatted for 8.5 X 14 (legal) size paper and is 67 pages. The parts are formatted for 8.5 X 11 (letter) size paper. Duration: 16 minutes Written in 1783 by English composer William Shield to a famous libretto by Irish playwright John O’Keeffe, The Poor Soldier was a hit at its premier in November 1783 at Covent Garden in London.  Quickly reaching American theaters by the following year, it became a frequently performed American Colonial musical theater piece, remaining in the repertory for over fifty years. So popular were the tunes from The Poor Soldier that even as late as 1850, some of the opera’s songs were music hall staples.  Apparently George Washington adored this work and had excerpts performed for him at Mount Vernon. In 2008 I was hired to reconstruct the opera the The Poor Soldier from a series of piano sketches and individually sold arias dating back to the late eighteen hundreds. The 2008 production was premiered at SUNY Schenectady County Community College by Musicians of Ma’alwyck. This band suite was created in 2010 and premiered by the Capital Region Wind Ensemble.

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837492 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary. Score and parts. 261 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5722157. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837492). Mortals, Gods, and Heroes was commissioned by Andrew Janack for the Maple Avenue Middles School Select Band in Saratoga Springs, NY. The school was doing a curriculum-wide reading project on Greek mythology. It seemed natural to create a wind ensemble suite based on three stories from Greek mythology. Each movement creates a miniature tone poem with clear motifs for each character in the myths. The characters include Athena (who makes a return in the final movement), Arachne, Orpheus, Charon the ferryman, Cerberus the three-headed dog, Sisyphus, Persephone, Eurydice, Perseus, and Medusa. The eleven-minute piece is colorful and inventive with plenty of special techniques in the percussion especially designed for middle school students. Mortals, Gods, and Heroes is in three movements: I. Arachne’s Web II. The Passage of OrpheusIII. Perseus and the Gorgon The score is formatted for 8.5 X 14 (legal) size paper and is 57 pages. The parts are formatted for 8.5 X 11 (letter) size paper.

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837514 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary. Score and parts. 124 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6748213. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837514). Note: for best results, print the score (first 38 pages) on 8.5 X 14 (legal) sized paper and print the parts on 8.5 X 11 (letter) sized paper. M45 is the Messier catalog number for an open star cluster better known as the Pleiades. Oot-kwa-tah is dedicated to Schenectady County Community College on the forty-fifth anniversary of the college’s establishment as part of the State University of New York. The college sits on land that was once part of the Mohawk nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. Oot-kwa-tah is inspired by the Iroquois legend of M45, the Pleiades star cluster. The Iroquois tell a story about seven children who met each day and danced for hours at a time instead of doing chores. An old man appeared to them one day as they danced. He shone magnificently like silver and was clad from head to toe in brilliant white feathers. The old man warned them to stop dancing lest something terrible happen to them. Ignoring the old man’s warning and growing more and more hungry and lightheaded the children began to rise into the air. If only they had listened to me, the old man thought. As the children’s parents gathered, one little boy heard his father’s voice below. The little boy looked down and saw his father. At that instant he fell back to earth. The other children continued to float higher and higher into the sky to become the Pleiades star cluster.The Iroquois call them Oot-kwa-tah and are reminded of these reckless children each time they see a falling star.

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1379250 Composed by Horatio Sp afford / Philip Bliss. Arranged by Jonathan L Nelson. Contest,Festival,Spiritual. 122 pages. Jonathan Nelson #963930. Published by Jonathan Nelson (A0.1379250). A Message from her father, Leander (Andy) Bridges III would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep as we do not sorrow as those who have no hope. It is with this paradoxical emotion that we present a commissioned work that is dear to our hearts.On May 20, 2022, our lives were changed forever as our daughter, Laina Michelle Bridges, passed away in a car accident. My wife and I as well as our extended family have chosen to not focus on the tragic passing of our daughter but on the exceptional eleven years that she graced us with her presence.It is as a result of her dynamic life that the title of this commissioned piece is so aptly appropriate. Love for my daughter has caused a transcendence beyond race, ethnicity, religious and political affiliation. And with the paradoxical emotion of sorrow filled joy, I humbly present a commissioned work by Dr. Jonathan Nelson in honor of the late Laina Michelle Bridges, Love for Laina.

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1504087 Composed by Horatio Sp afford / Philip Bliss. Arranged by Jonathan L Nelson. Contest,Festival,Religious. 122 pages. Jonathan Nelson #1079545. Published by Jonathan Nelson (A0.1504087). A Message from her father, Leander (Andy) Bridges III would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep as we do not sorrow as those who have no hope. It is with this paradoxical emotion that we present a commissioned work that is dear to our hearts.On May 20, 2022, our lives were changed forever as our daughter, Laina Michelle Bridges, passed away in a car accident. My wife and I as well as our extended family have chosen to not focus on the tragic passing of our daughter but on the exceptional eleven years that she graced us with her presence.It is as a result of her dynamic life that the title of this commissioned piece is so aptly appropriate. Love for my daughter has caused a transcendence beyond race, ethnicity, religious and political affiliation. And with the paradoxical emotion of sorrow filled joy, I humbly present a commissioned work by Dr. Jonathan Nelson in honor of the late Laina Michelle Bridges, Love for Laina.

Concert Band - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1284630 Composed by James Johnston Stewart and Sergei Prokofiev. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,Film/TV,Opera. Score and Parts. 42 pages. John Ivor Holland #875802. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1284630). L'amour des trois oranges, Op. 33, is a satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev. He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play L'amore delle tre melarance, or The Love for Three Oranges by Carlo Gozzi, and conducted the premiere, which took place at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 30 December 1921. The 'March' was used by CBS in the radio-drama series 'The FBI in Peace and War' from 1944 to 1958 and also by Prokofiev himself in his ballet, 'Cinderella'. This arrangement uses all the colour of today's symphonic band and would make an excellent programme item in a concert of opera music.

Concert Band - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1120615 By Sandro Satanassi. By Giuseppe Verdi. Arranged by Sandro Satanassi. 19th Century,Classical. 14 pages. Sandro Satanassi #721861. Published by Sandro Satanassi (A0.1120615). Ernani, opera lirica in quattro atti di Giuseppe Verdi, è tratta dal dramma omonimo di Victor Hugo. Il 9 Marzo 1844 è stata per la prima volta rappresentata l'opera al Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, su libretto di Francesco Maria Piave riscuotendo un grande successo di pubblico. Questo lavoro propone la struggente �aria� di Silva “...Infelice! e tuo credevi...�.