SKU: CL.011-3937-01

Fiery and exciting, contrasted by an elegant and emotional middle section, Phoenix is sure to capture your audience right from the very first note! Beautiful melodies and counterpoints are carefully crafted to create awareness for your students to understand the importance of the role they play in your band. Also a great teaching tool for contrasting articulations and styles, this work is sure to shine in your next concert, festival or contest. A definite educator, performer and audience pleaser!

About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series

The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.

SKU: KJ.WB319F

Picture cowboys riding across the saguaro-filled desert during the day, and at night, bedding down under the star-studded sky. In this descriptive piece, inspired by the Arizona desert, the composer has created a picturesque audience pleaser with a unique opening followed by catchy rhythms, accessible syncopation and rich textures. the percussion section will have fun creating the sound of the 'rattle,' an imitation of the desert diamondback. An advanced snare drum part is available.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

SKU: CL.012-4512-75

The delightful and charming overture to the comic opera Fatinitza is finally available in a wonderful transcription by Andrew Glover. An excellent selection for mature bands seeking an enjoyable work that's also an audience-pleaser. Set includes a large spiral-bound conductor score.