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Diptych for Brass Quintet and Concert Band (1964) Meditation (1963) On Winged Flight (1989) Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (1950) Symphony No. 3 In Praise of Winds (1981) Joseph Schwantner From a Dark Millennium (1981) John P. Sousa The Thunderer (1889) High School Cadets (1890) The Fairest of the Fair (1908) The Pathfinder of Panama ...
The Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association (more commonly known as VBODA) is an organization of high school, middle school, and elementary school band and orchestra directors within the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose mission is to help promote opportunities of music education to K-12 students. Many of the events that the VBODA ...
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors (band directors). A school band consists of woodwind instruments, brass instruments and percussion instruments, although upper level bands may also have string basses or bass ...
Arlington has a renowned performance arts program, including a marching band and orchestra that have earned national recognition. But the winter guard had last reached to the WGI world ...
Commissioned and premiered (in May 1993) by the Bishop Ireton High School Band (Garwood Whaley, conductor) of Alexandria, Virginia. Like Maslanka's "In Memoriam," "Montana Music" embodies a hymn tune (O Sacred Head) in a free-variation context. Morning Star (1997), for symphonic wind ensemble. Commissioned and premiered (in May 1997) by the ...
The InterSchool Orchestras of New York (ISO) was founded in 1972 by Annabelle F. Prager as a response to the limited opportunities for school children in both public and private schools to play in an orchestra. It has since grown to include three beginning orchestras, an intermediate band, two intermediate orchestras, a symphonic band, and an ...
On the other hand, marches were also written for specific instrumentation to be determined "locally". That is, composers simply wrote a piano version of a march which was given to the publisher to arrange the different parts for concert or marching band, or orchestra, etc. Still, modern repertoire and arrangements are typically scored for: C ...
Usually, county high schools take turns to host the festival every few years. At each festival, students perform scales, a solo or ensemble piece of their choice from the designated NYSSMA repertoire, and a sight reading piece. The judges score and comment on the students' performances according to defined guidelines set by NYSSMA.