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This is a selection of music used for the Star Trek television serials and movie pictures in the past years. The introduction is based on the main theme which was the tune for the television serial fo...

The French composer Mickey Nicolas (Laon, 1938) was conductor at the famous Paris cabaret 'Le Lido' for many years. He already expressed his great love for the Eiffel Tower City by composing 'Listenin...

Molenaar Edition has already published several arrangements by Josef Hastreiter as well as his thrilling concert piece 'Dancing Show'. This new very rhythmical compo-sition 'Six to Five' will certainl...

This opera in three acts is based on a libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil inspired by the play 'The sunken bell' by the German playwright Gerhard Hauptmann. It tells a tragical story, similar to the 'Undine'...

The traditional Ukrainian marching song Zaporozsky brings us in a typical Eastern European atmosphere and spontaneously calls nostalgic feelings up. John Smits managed to arrange this fine theme in a...

The American soul music group 'Earth, Wind and Fire', set up in 1970 by singer and drummer Maurice Whitney, started a real international career from 1975 onwards. Especially the brass players were foc...

Elmer Bernstein started his career as a concert pianist but in 1939 he became arranger of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Later he got a job with Columbia Pictures and wrote the soundtrack for the David M...

Richard Rodgers collaborated for 25 years exclusively with lyricist Lorentz Hart and they created 27 famous musicals such as 'Babes in Arms' in 1937. This show boasts several songs that became extreme...

The German composer Manfred Schneider (Ketsert am Rhein, 1953) has played the French horn in the Koblenz Police Band for many years. His band compositions such as Rock and Go, Splashing Sounds and Son...

The American pianist and composer Howard Hoagland 'Hoagy' Carmichael was considered the creator of the so-called 'white man's blues' which he mainly used as part of the music he wrote for a series of...

Here is another fine original piece by Rob Pronk, adding guitar, piano and bass guitar to the usual wind band scoring. These rather unusual instruments start this composition called The Introduction,...

This is an original march composed by Rob Pronk and arranged by Major Jos Pommer, conductor of the Band of the Royal Dutch Airforce. Fifty marching people are passing by, but not to the traditional ma...

The French composer Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was a pupil of Ambroise Thomas and was awarded a Grand Prix de Rome. He composed several successful operas such as 'Hérodiade' (1881) and 'Manon' (1884)....