SKU: A0.1002900

Listed pricing includes Score and all Parts. Friendly People is a Grade 3 piece for Concert Band. It would make a great addition to your concert band repertoire. Friendly People is an exciting piece that your students and audience would love. It was written in 2004 as a song for Australia for the Australian Tourism Commission. The audio recording is of the Orchestra version but will give you an idea of the song. Enjoy!

SKU: A0.1026914

Look Both Ways is an easy Grade 2 Concert Band title written by Garry Poole for developing bands. It would make a great addition to your bands repertoire. Your students will love playing this piece. A good choice to introduce your first clarinet players to the break (Highest note - D) with your second clarinet under the break. Instrumentation - flute 1, flute 2/oboe, clarinet 1-2, bass clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, French horn, trumpet 1-2, trombone/baritone/bassoon, tuba, electric bass, timpani, glockenspiel, percussion 1, percussion 2 and percussion 3. Enjoy!

SKU: A0.927173

Creature began as a joke in high school between a friend of mine and me where we described the radical mood swings of our band directors as a creature coming forth from inside of them. Think about the alien from Alien 3 where it opened its mouth and its tongue was a little alien head with teeth of its own. I thought it would be fun to write a piece of music around this creature, so I wrote a short series of story beats and then some music around it. The full story is, unfortunately, lost to history, but the music survived the twenty-five years since its original composition, and in honor of my young self, I merely edited any typos and left it just as I wrote it when I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior. This was my first, solo-written, full band composition, and one can hear that I was a huge fan of Igor Stravinsky.

This is not an easy piece to play. It has time changes aplenty, fast runs in the upper woodwinds, very exposed parts in nearly every section, large interval leaps, and spares hardly anyone's range. The eighth note remains constant across the 4 and 8 time signatures, and the breakdown of the complex time signatures is apparent in how the eighth notes are barred. As a conductor, it will be challenging as well, but I survived it on two occasions as both a senior in high school and in front of a military band, so it can be done.

So enjoy the musical story of a creature who attacks people in its rage and hunger before it is chased and defeated by an angry mob ... but did it really die?

George Willson has been an performer, composer, and conductor for thirty years in various mediums and ensembles.

Mp3 provided is a midi extracted from the composition program.