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Our man in Paris is a flaneur. Polished, elegant, and a little wordly-wise, he spends much of the day in the glossy boulevard cafes, sipping his drink and chatting with friends as he watches the fashi...

Josef Strauß, the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, worked for some time as an architect and engineer before he started conducting to replace his elder brother Johann Junior who had become seriously...

We still do not understand why the excellent Russian composer Georgi Salnikov did not yet completely break through as band music composer in Western Europe. His exquisite music for symphonic band boas...

The British composer and ex military band conductor Terry Kenny got an excellent reputation as director of music of the Royal Corps of Transport Band with which he made a series of fine recordings. Si...

The young Spanish conductor and composer Ferrer Ferran is a pupil of Jef Penders. He conducts the symphonic band of the Valencia Conservatory of Music and the Banda Primitiva de Paiporta. For this thr...

This piece features music from the 1978 film Grease, the songs Greased Lightening, Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Stay, Hopelessly Devoted to You and We Go Together, have been tastefully arranged in a beaut...

The Andalusian composer Antonio Alvarez studied at the Madrid Conservatory of Music where he graduated with First Prizes for piano, organ, harmony and composition. He conducted mainly zarzuelas (Spani...

A Sinfonietta is a 'small symphony', so it is a composition that does not boast the length of a real symphony (although this could be the case) and so allows the composer to take some liberties. In th...

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...

The Brussels jazz pianist Bob Gay composed several excellent original marches, but left their wind band orchestration to his friend Peter Laine. The combination of Gay's humour and inventiveness on th...

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...

Molenaar Edition has already published the nice pasodoble torero Olé Toronto by this young Spanish pupil of Jef Penders. Here is a splendid concert pasodoble composed by Ferran for the centenary of th...

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...

1. Harvest Dance - Phoeboia II Like many of the inhabited planets Phoebia II was first colonized by the survivors of a spaceship crash. There is no certainty as to where these survivors originated fro...