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Concert Band Music

Disco original del grupo The White Strippes

Seven Nation Army (Instrumental Alone)

Sounds of Spring: Serra Spring Concert May 10 2006

The Great Locomotive Chase - Serra Symphonic Band

Live recording of "Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band" by John Mackey.
Performed by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jerry Junkin.
Program note and full score available here:
http://ostimusic.com/WineDarkSea.php

Wine-Dark Sea: 1. Hubris

Live recording of "Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band" (2014) by John Mackey.
Performed by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jerry Junkin.
Program note and full score available here:
http://ostimusic.com/WineDarkSea.php

Wine-Dark Sea: 3. The attentions of souls

An arrangement of Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights in EWQLSO

Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights EWQL Orchestration

Commissioned by Ned Smith and the Coventry High School Band, "Black Rainbow" was inspired by the idea of a moonbow – a rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon (rather than from direct sunlight) refracting off of moisture in the air. The full spectrum of colors are present, but it is difficult for the human eye to detect them. I liked the idea of such beauty being there under the surface, but not immediately recognizable. The work takes the listener on a journey through each of the seven colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), each with their own energy.

Black Rainbow (for 6 solo percussion & piano)

Three Visions of El Greco for tuba and wind ensemble draws upon three paintings for its inspiration: “View of Toledo,” The Adoration of the Shepherds,” and “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.” The first movement, “View of Toledo,” is loosely based on a variation of a ‘bulería’ flamenco rhythm—a 12/8 rhythm that emphasizes eighth notes 3, 7, 8 and 11. While the bulería instigates the initial momentum of the movement, a robust and lively dance ensues. Pairing this music with the painting, one envisions a ghastly aura casting a pall over this medieval city, concealing a raucous celebration.

Premiered at the University of Texas-San Antonio and the International Tuba Euphonium Conference at Indiana University. Spring 2014.

Three Visions of El Greco: View of Toledo

Live performances by the RAAF Air Command Band

Florentiner March by Julius Fucik - Conducted by Squadron Leader John Buckley

Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of Paganini

10 Vast Land

12 Riding North

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14 Urhat

Commissioned by the NC Central District Bandmasters Association for the 2016 Central District All-District Middle School Band, conducted by Patricia Hughes Ball. 

This recording provided by the Furman University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Les Hicken.

Inspired by the book series, “Peter and the Starcatchers,” this rousing piece captures the innocence, adventure, danger, and wonderment of the early days of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys as they travel the seas in search of the magical “star stuff.” The intense darkness of the pirate Black Stache even makes an appearance with alternating measures of 4/4 and 7/8 as well as special vocal effects throughout the ensemble.

StarCatchers for Concert Band (Grade 3)

With Heart and Voice(Showa Wind Symphony)

The Universal Judgement- Camillo DeNardis

"Burn" was commissioned by Robert Faub for performance at the 2016 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX). The idea for the piece simply came from the title and the myriad of ways a fire can burn. What results is a perpetual motion tour-de-force work for both players.

Spark | Ignite | Dance | Scorch | Smolder | Incinerate | Extinguish

Burn (live recording) - Nathan Daughtrey

Commissioned by Gabe Musella and the Spring High School Wind Ensemble for performance at the 2016 Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, "Twitch" is a tour-de-force for solo B-flat clarinet and band. A clarinet quartet (3 Bb soprano & 1 bass clarinet) from the ensemble accompanies the soloist at several moments throughout the piece.

Twitch (solo clarinet & wind ensemble) - Nathan Daughtrey

Handel in the Strand

Imagining World for Concert Band

Limerick Daydreams for Symphonic Band

An Extraordinary Correspondence (for flute & marimba)

Nathan Daughtrey with the James Madison University Percussion Ensemble, Michael Overman, conducting.  Commissioned by Dr. Lisa Rogers (percussion professor at Texas Tech University), the first movement of the Concerto for Vibraphone and Percussion Ensemble received its premiere in November 2009 at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Indianapolis by Lisa Rogers and the Brazoswood High School Percussion Ensemble, directed by Eric Harper. It will be premiered in its entirety at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Conference in Beijing, China in August 2010 by the Texas Tech University Percussion Ensemble, directed by Allan Shin, with Dr. Lisa Rogers as the vibraphone soloist. 
Notes: 
One of my favorite sources of inspiration for my compositions is poetry – especially that of Pablo Neruda. It's so passionate and filled with vivid imagery that it's just a blast to try and portray his words with music. I knew from the outset that Lisa Rogers (the commissioning party) wanted a 2-movement concerto, so I decided to try and find two poems with opposing themes and stumbled upon Neruda's collection "Ode to Opposites." I chose "Ode to Nighttime" and "Ode to Enchanted Light" which pit night against day.  For the first movement, Night’s Song, I tried to depict this mysterious, starry night that gradually turns dark and rainy. The phrases that really spoke to me and shaped the music were “behind daylight,” “you thrash around the sky,” “you run wild over the savage flow of rivers,” and rain and darkness are the blade of a singing sword while stars, or jasmine petals, gaze from blackened heights.” I love how Neruda describes daylight as being born nighttime, so I decided to make the movements attacca so that the second movement, Enchanted Light, bursts forth out of the first movement.  The second movement is much more sparkly and bright, depicting the “light dropping from the top of the sky.” The “cicada sending its sawing song high into the empty air” even makes an appearance when the ensemble vibraphone player places pennies on the bars and then bows those bars with optional help from a sizzle cymbal. Motives and themes from the first movement return in several spots throughout the second movement helping to unify the work. The soloist gets a workout as well in the tour-de-force second movement, unlike the much more introspective first movement.

Concerto for Vibraphone and Percussion Ensemble

Chorale and Alleluia - Howard Hanson

Title : Offering
Album Artist : Night Ark
Album : Moments 
Composer : Ara Dinkjian
Year : 1988

Night Ark - Offering

One of my favorite festival pieces we played in the WCHS symphonic band

Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli

Reading session of The Machine Awakes, by the University of North Carolina Greensboro Symphonic Band and Kevin Geraldi. Oct. 9th, 2012.

The Machine Awakes is a work for band and electronics designed for beginning and community musicians.

Download a free PDF perusal score here: http://stevenbryant.com/the-machine-awakes.php

The Machine Awakes (UNCG Symphonic Band reading)

Night Ark(Lullaby For The Sun (for my daughter Arev)

Demo Recording by the University of North Texas Symphonic Band
Dennis W. Fisher, conductor

When commissioned to compose Sensus Vitae (“The Meaning of Life”) by Kevin Bowen and the Wake Forest University Bands for the inaugural year of their Emerging Band Composer Series, I was given a single phrase from which to draw inspiration:

Pro Humanitate – This is Wake Forest's motto which roughly translates from Latin as "for humanity" or "to serve humanity" 

As I was assembling ideas for the piece, Martin Luther King Jr.'s  birthday came and went, moving me to discover a couple of his quotes regarding humanity.

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

These quotes helped determine the mood of the piece, but it was a simple quote from Leo Tolstoy that gave the piece wings. 

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
- Leo Tolstoy

Sensus Vitae (for symphonic band)

Harlequin by Philip Sparke
Played by Robbert Vos on Euphonium and Brassband Schoonhoven.
Recorded on the cd Silver & Gold

For more information:

www.robbertvos.com
www.brassbandschoonhoven.nl

2010 Harlequin CD Opname - Philip Sparke by Robbert Vos.wmv

Percussionist, composer, & educator Nathan Daughtrey (b. 1975) is a musical chameleon who uses his wide-ranging talents to adapt comfortably to a variety of environments. As a performing artist and clinician for Yamaha percussion, Vic Firth sticks & mallets, Zildjian cymbals, and Black Swamp accessories, he has performed and given masterclasses and clinics throughout the United States and across three continents. Nathan has recorded two solo marimba albums to date – "Spiral Passages" and "The Yuletide Marimba" – as well as several chamber music albums, including a recent collaboration with euphoniumist Brian Meixner titled "Praxis."

With over 60 publications for percussion ensemble, concert band, orchestra, chamber ensembles, and soloists as well as an ever-growing number of commissions, Nathan balances his performing with composing, and to great acclaim. He is the only composer in the history of the Percussive Arts Society International Composition Contest to procure both 2nd and 3rd place in the same year with his percussion ensemble works "Limerick Daydreams" and "Adaptation," respectively. Nathan's compositions appear regularly on performances at PASIC, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Bands of America National Percussion Festival, and in concert halls and other performance venues around the world. His works have also been recorded on several albums by respected performers, including the FSU Percussion Ensemble, the Showa Wind Symphony conducted by Ray Cramer, the RoseWind Duo, and Mississippi State University. Additionally, three of his compositions for wind ensemble have been featured in three volumes of "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band."

As an educator, Nathan served as a Visiting Lecturer of Percussion for three years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he taught applied percussion and conducted the Percussion Ensemble. He also served as a sabbatical replacement at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught undergraduate and graduate percussion students and conducted the world-renowned OU Percussion Orchestra. Dr. Daughtrey is currently a Visiting Lecturer of Percussion and Music Composition at High Point University (NC), where he teaches applied lessons, directs the percussion ensemble and works in collaboration with the School of Communication and Department of Dance.

Nathan remains active within the Percussive Arts Society serving as a member of the Composition Contest Committee, organizing the PASIC Fun Runs on behalf of the Health and Wellness Committee, and editing the keyboard percussion articles for Percussive Notes.