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The Dutch pianist Laurens van Rooyen got famous in his country when this 'Great Parade' was featured for several weeks on the national hitparade. Marcel Peeters was the right man to make a wind band a...

Johann Strauß Junior wrote this 'Perpetuum Mobile' opus 257 in 1861, inspired by a grand Viennese Ball. This event had been announced as a 'Carnival Perpetuum Mobile' with non-stop dancing and music....

This song became very popular when it was used in the famous movie picture 'Casablanca', starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. You will undoubtedly remember the final scene when Bogart, with a...

The songs composed by the American composer Stephen Foster have been 'evergreens' for over a hundred years now. In this selection we can hear successively: 'Jeannie with the light brown hair', 'Oh, Su...

England boasts an enormous treasure of folksongs, many of those being preserved and listed thanks to the efforts of Cecil Sharp (1859-1924). The composers Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Percy Grainger wer...

'Remerciements' (Thanksgivings) is the fourth religious composi-tion by Serge Lancen. It is a song of praise and thanksgiving, piously devoted to God. As the composer is very happy to live here on ear...

After the overwhelming success of his 'Second Symphony' Pjotr Tschaikowsky (Votkinsk 1840 - Saint-Petersburg 1893) got a request of the Imperial Theatre in Moscow early in 1873 to compose the stage mu...

This optimistic message is the title of a popular song from the famous Monty Python film 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' (1979). Monty Python's Flying Circus was the name of a very popular British tele...

Among the some 1500 compositions by Johann Strauss Sr. and his three sons there are some 70 marches, 45 of them written by Johann Strauss Jr. He composed military marches, marches for students and eve...

With this composition I have tried to reproduce, in an abstract way, the different aspects of the actual life. One will discover alternatively spiritual and secular aspects - the never ceasing boister...

In everyday life in Great Britain 'tea-time' plays a rather important role and this is what Jackson tried to suggest in this original wind band composition. Jackson was born in 1957 and graduated from...

1. La belle Françoise.This song tells the story of the beautiful Françoise, who is visited by her lover on the eve of his departure. She helps him prepare for his voyage and they talk for the last tim...

Pietro Mascagni (Livorno 1863 - Rome 1945) got famous overnight when his first opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana' was premiered in 1890. Of his later operas only 'L'Amico Fritz' and 'Iris' got some success....

The composition 'The Waterbeggars', a magnificent and colourful work written in 1995, was inspired by the Eighty Years' War between Spain and The Netherlands (1568-1648). The Waterbeggars formed the a...

Marcel Peeters has been a musician and arranger with several famous European bands for many years; his predilection for the charleston must go back to this period. He already composed That Crazy Charl...

Josef Hastreiter already drew the attention with his disco composition 'Dancing Show'. In this tribute to the famous popsinger Michael Jackson he gathered the songs 'Don't stop till you get enough', '...