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Luis Pasquet (1917) is an Uruguayan composer who was very active both in the world of jazz and the world of tango. After many peregrinations he returned to his home country in 1970 and founded a chamb...

Ron Howard's movie picture 'Apollo 13' starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton and Gary Sinise was one of the three most successful films of 1995. It tells the story of the third space voyage to...

In 1994 composer (Sir) Elton John and scriptwriter Tim Rice worked together for the first time on the soundtrack for Walt Disney's cartoon 'The Lion King' which was turned into a very successful Broad...

Eric Swiggers (Deurne, 1968) is currently conductor of the symphonic band 'Harmonie St Caecilia' of Lieshout and the fanfare band 'De Notenkrakers' (The Nutcrackers) of Vorstenbosch. He has composed q...

The traditional song Day-Oh! became very popular when Harry Belafonte (New-York, 1927) put it in his repertoire as 'Banana Boat Song'. This jazz musician discovered by chance that he boasted a unique...

Charles Zimmerman (1862-1916) was 'bandmaster' at the U.S. Naval Academy during thirty years. He wrote his famous march Anchors aweigh at the request of the Academy's Senior Class in 1907. They asked...

The Flemish composer and arranger Marcel Peeters has certainly influenced the wind band repertoire of the last decade. With his usual talent he arranged some fine cartoon melodies into a relaxing medl...

In 1890 'The High School Cadets', a popular drill team attached to the very first high school in Washington D.C., asked John Philip Sousa to write a march for the group. They requested a 'better' marc...

Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) is a trombone player and staff arranger with the Marine Band of the Royal Dutch Navy . His five part suite 'Nomenclatura' was commissioned by the Band of the Dutc...

This is the fifth and final movement of the colourful suite 'Nomenclatura' by Peter Kleine Schaars (1962). After subsequently a salsa, a ballad, a rumba and a funk melody, here is a capricious piece c...

Aria from Cantata no.208 In a fine arrangement by Willy Hautvast

No doubt, Jef Penders has a slight preference for Glenn Miller's music. After compositions such as Glenn meets Wolfgang, Glenn beats the Battle of Jericho, Glenn mocks about with the Clarinet and Glen...

Mandalay, the cultural capital of Burma, was very seriously damaged by bombings of the Allied Forces during the Second World War. 'The Road to Mandalay' has been a kind of oriental symbol, which was a...

Here is another fine arrangement by Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) in true big band style of the famous tune composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. A dialogue between the expressive, classical flute...

Un bel numero swingante tipico delle big band con una potente percussione ritmica e melodica e anche il basso elettrico. Un pezzo che vi accenderà e vi farà venire voglia di iniziare a ballare. Il sas...

This Rhapsody is composed by Peter kleine Schaars for the 4th international contest of light music in 2002 at St. Gallen.