Par SADELER GEORGES. Schola Vitae, dedicated to the former director of UGDA Music School in Luxembourg, Paul Scholer, describes in an 8-minute piece that learning and playing music is a school for life. Starting with popular scales that ascend and descend through various keys, an essential tool familiar to every musician appears: the metronome. It sets the tempo, and musicians practice their themes together or against each other, register by register. In music, however, it's not just about technique and precision, but also about emotions. Music connects people, fosters friendships, and accompanies them through the highs and lows of life. The sense of togetherness in music becomes increasingly audible. Everyone works together and pulls in the same direction to ultimately achieve something great. Georges Sadeler, born in 1988 is a Luxembourgish composer and saxophonist with the Grand Ducal Military Band of Luxembourg. His father kindled his interest in composing and arranging at an early age, a study he later continued under his two teachers Marco Pütz and Claude Lenners, both of whom taught at the Conservatoire of Music, Luxembourg. He gradually began to establish his own style, combining the enormous range of possibilities of contemporary music and classical music and, in the years that followed, he won six first prizes at various national and international composition competitions. His works have since been performed all over Europe. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band / Harmonie

Par SPARKE PHILIP. The inspiration for this piece came from the address of the person who commissioned the work: Morse Street, Houston, Texas. It pays tribute to the immense skill of the engineers who succeeded in submerging a wire across the Atlantic to send messages in morse code from America to Europe. This technical ingenuity provided the perfect source of material for a transatlantic musical message. This work explores the vast expanse of the Atlantic and makes use of Irish melodies to celebrate the point where the cable enters into the Atlantic Ocean. / Niveau : 2.5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Recorded by The Fratellis this rock anthem has become a fan favorite in sports arenas in the US as well as Europe. The bluesy yet upbeat shuffle feel make it a unique offering for the field or stands.

Par DE HAAN JACOB. Ottoman Dances (“Danses ottomanes”) est une oeuvre qui s’appuie sur deux danses du Sud-Est de l’Europe. L’une provient de Bosnie-Herzégovine, l’autre de Turquie, deux pays ayant autrefois appartenus à l’Empire Ottoman (1350-1918). Le premier mouvement se développe sur une danse sereine qui allie contrastes de nuances. Le second mouvement expose une danse rapide qui évolue dans une atmosphère joyeuse. / Niveau : 1.5 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par BARNES JAMES. Risoluto is a music term of Italian derivation, first appearing in the mid 1700s. A great many musical terms such as this are in Italian, because many of the important composers from the Renaissance to the Baroque were from the geographic area known today as Italy and spoke some form of Italian. Consequently, performance markings in their published music, widely disseminated through the rest of Europe, were in the language that they best understood. Music marked in this manner is to be played firmly and decisively with firm resolve and little variance from the marked tempo. It can be seen that while there are several stylistic changes in this piece, the tempo varies not a bit, holding firm at Allegro vivo, quarter note at 120, from first measure to last. / Date parution : 2022-09-20/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Arr. Philip Sparke. Par HENRY VIII. The English king, Henry VIII (1491-1547), is mainly remembered for disposing of his wives on a regular basis and breaking with the Catholic Church when the Pope Clement VII refused to grant him a divorce so he could marry Anne Boleyn. As a young man he was a gifted athlete, dancer and composer, writing many songs, poems and consort pieces (though not Greensleeves, as is often believed). Pastime with Good Company is undoubtedly the best-known of these, written in the first years of the 16th century while he was still a handsome prince, newly married to Catherine of Aragon and the envy of Europe. The lyrics tell of the joys of hunting, dancing and singing and would have been sungas part of the court entertainment. This arrangement features a quartet of soloists and two solo drummers. / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / Fanfare

The Way of St James. Par DELERUYELLE THIERRY. « Quatre chemins vont à Saint-Jacques », ainsi commence le Livre du Pèlerin. Écrit au XIIe siècle, le Codex Calixtinus ouvre la voie du pèlerinage qui va de la plupart des villes d?Europe et du nord de l?Afrique vers Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, en Espagne. Compostela - Sur le chemin de St Jacques de Compostelle (The Way of St James) décrit la marche des pèlerins. Après une lente introduction, un thème brillant annonce qu?il faut prendre la route. L?arrivée en Espagne est indiquée par des chants incantatoires et des accords majestueux. Enfin, la musique d?adoucit alors que les pèlerins vénèrent St Jacques. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This major concert work cosists o five movements. 1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas, a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals, in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the “Laguna del Shimbe”, one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream. 2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It’s a proud, beautiful andindependent race, which has never succumbed to domination, not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish, fruit, plants, . . . . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation, they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways. 3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning “picture”, “soul”, “essence”. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system, their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. “Everywhere the white man goes, he leaves a wilderness behind him”, wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites, the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone, 80 tribes have vanished completely). 4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias, in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water, painted with redpaint and covered with feathers, after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound. 5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by, amongst others, the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez, who, murdered in 1988, was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped. / Niveau : 6 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par SPARKE PHILIP. A Little Klezmer Suite est une commande de Rushton Park High School, en Angleterre, pour marquer le cinquantième anniversaire du programme de son harmonie. La pièce a été créée lors d’un concert virtuel en ligne en octobre 2020. La musique klezmer est née dans les ‘shtetl’ (villages) et les ghettos d’Europe de l’Est, où les troubadours juifs itinérants, connus sous le nom de ‘klezmorim’, se produisaient lors de célébrations, en particulier les mariages, depuis le début du Moyen Âge. « Klezmer » est un terme yiddish qui combine les mots hébreux ‘kley’ (instrument) et ‘zemer’ (chanson). Les racines de ce style se trouvent dans les mélodies profanes, les danses populaires, le ‘hazanut’ juif (musique liturgique) ainsi que les ‘nigunim’, mélodies sans paroles entonnées par les ‘Hasidim’ (Juifs orthodoxes). Les mélodies traditionnelles employées dans les quatre mouvements de A Little Klezmer Suite ont toujours été populaires lors des cérémonies de mariage et autres fêtes juives./ Répertoire / Fanfare

The Way of St James. Par DELERUYELLE THIERRY. « Quatre chemins vont à Saint-Jacques », ainsi commence le Livre du Pèlerin. Écrit au XIIe siècle, le Codex Calixtinus ouvre la voie du pèlerinage qui va de la plupart des villes d?Europe et du nord de l?Afrique vers Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, en Espagne. Compostela - Sur le chemin de St Jacques de Compostelle (The Way of St James) décrit la marche des pèlerins. Après une lente introduction, un thème brillant annonce qu?il faut prendre la route. L?arrivée en Espagne est indiquée par des chants incantatoires et des accords majestueux. Enfin, la musique d?adoucit alors que les pèlerins vénèrent St Jacques. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Par BECK BRIAN. The Cherry Tree is a beautiful and lyrical folk song dating back as early as the 15th century in the English Midlands. Having traveled all around western Europe, this folk tune eventually found its way to America, gaining popularity in the South in early 1900s and again in the 1960s. This setting, by composer Brian Beck, captures the beauty and simplicity of the original ballad while encouraging musical expression and smooth phrasing. (3:21) Correlated to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 5. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Arr. Naohiro Iwai. Par GOLD ERNEST. Le navire Exodus, immortalisé dans le film éponyme d'Otto Preminger, était parti du port de Sète, dans le sud de la France, en juillet 1947. À son bord, des Juifs émigrant clandestinement d'Europe vers la Palestine, alors sous mandat britannique. L’épopée de l’Exodus achèvera de précipiter la fin du mandat des Anglais en Palestine et aboutira à la création de l'Etat d'Israël, il y a tout juste soixante ans. La bande originale du film, écrite par Ernest Gold, fut couronnée par l'Oscar de la Meilleure Musique Originale (1960). / Niveau : 3 / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Date parution : 1905-06-30/ Recueil / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Le titre de la pièce évoque la Tall Ship Race (La Course des Grands Voiliers) qui se déroule chaque année depuis 1956. Les bateaux qui y participent sont tous de grands voiliers servant à la formation des jeunes équipages et couvrent des centaines de miles marins sur les mers d’Europe. L’oeuvre se compose d’une lente introduction qui évoque les bateaux majestueux et une section plus rapide débutant dans le style d’une chanson de marins. Un passage central voit les bateaux toutes voiles dehors, puis les thèmes de la première section reviennent pour clore la composition. Hissez la grand voile ! / Niveau : 4 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Arr. Wil Van Der Beek. Par NESSLER VICTOR E.. Farewell Song has been taken from Der Trompetervon Säckingen by Victor E. Nessler (1841-1890). Thisopera tells the sentimental story of a plain musicianwho is eventually allowed to marry the daughter ofa baron. From the first performance in 1884, thisopera was well liked - not so much because of thestory but because of its musical features. Impressivetrumpet solos, drinking songs and dance scenes werethe ingredients that enthralled audiences throughoutEurope. Today, only the farewell song called JungWerner’s Abschied, also known as Behüt’ dich Gott, has remained an absolute winner. Wil van der Beekhas written a fine arrangement of this entitledFarewell Song. He felt itwas appropriate to entrustthe melody of this song, originally written for tenorvoice, to the baritone or euphonium. / Niveau : 2.5 / Répertoire / Baryton ou Tuba et Fanfare

for Brass Ensemble and Percussion. Par GLORIEUX FRANCOIS. François Glorieux was born in Belgium in 1932, and acclaimed throughout Europe, the USA, Latin America, Canada, Japan, China, the Middle East and Africa. He is one of the most widely accomplished and versatile musicians traveling the international circuit today: pianist composer conductor, commentator, entertainer, honorary professor of chamber music at the Royal Music Conservatory of Ghent and guest professor at Yale University (USA). His particular art was the rare one of improvisation presented in five languages. Glorieux practices all musical styles and has been highly considered by great artists such as André Cluytens, Arthur Rubinstein, Yves Nat, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Enrique Jorda, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, but also Michael Jackson, Stan Kenton, Stéphane Grappelli, Paul McCartney, Toots Thielemans, Jacky Collins, Annie Girardot, Dionne Warwick, A.C. Jobim, and so on. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Cuivres