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The American pianist and composer Cy Coleman(1929) is certainly best known as the author of several musical comedies such as Wildcat (1960), Sweet Charity (1966), Seesaw (1973) and of course Barnum (1...

The Brasilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote some very famous tunes such as Desafinado (1959). It was this song that first mentioned the term bossa nova. Though complex in melody and harmony, the...

To Jef Penders the influence of Glenn Miller on light music in the second half of the twentieth century is still alive. After Glenn meets Wolfgang, Glenn beats the Battle of Jericho and Glenn plays af...

This musical whimsy is based on the well known folk tune Turkey in the Straw. After the introduction we meet our friend as we all know him from the folk tune.At Moderato we catch the turkey in a melan...

In Germany and Austria there are many beautiful Christmas carols, some of them such as 'Holy Night, Silent Night' or 'O Tannenbaum' are known and sung all over the world. Josef Hastreiter (1938) arran...

The 'Suite for Wind Orchestra' has three parts. The introductory 'Symphonic Movement' is based on two opposite musical ideas. The first is chromatic, whereas the second is rather diatonically harmoniz...

Jef Penders, often called 'The Spanish Limburger', lives since many years in the province of Valencia where he is strongly involved in the local musical life. He wrote this fine seguidilla Per al meu...

This famous jazz theme with the melancholic lyrics 'Bill Bailey won't you please come home, I'm feeling sad and lonely' is on the repertoire of many famous (female) jazz singers and is also a favourit...

The American composer Milton Ager (Chicago 1893 - Los Angeles 1979) wrote several songs that became evergreens, such as 'Ain't she sweet' and 'Happy Days are here again'. The latter became extremely p...

It was for the 80 anniversary as musician of Mr. Denessen that the wind band Harmonie St. Cecilia' at Tegelen, The Netherlands asked me to write this march. As his slogan is 'Playing music keeps me fi...

(Rhapsody from Friesland)Friesland (Fryslân in the Frisian language) does not only have its own language but it also boasts a very rich own culture with many folk songs sometimes dating from many cent...

Bring the dazzling splendour of Russian Romanticism to your concert stage! The world-famous Polonaise from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's masterpiece opera "Eugene Onegin" is among the most exhilarating a...

The young Spanish composer Ferrer Ferran studied with Jef Penders and became conductor of the symphonic band of the Valencia Conservatory of Music. He wrote this thrilling pasodoble torero as an homag...

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...

The immortal French song 'Les Feuilles Mortes' (Autumn Leaves) was composed by Joseph Kosma on a text by Jacques Prévert. Kosma worked with Berthold Brecht, Kurt Weil and Hans Eisler in Berlin before...