Jazz Suite
The German composer and arranger Manfred Schneider has been playing for many years with the military band Heeresmusikkorps 300 at Cologne. In the meantime he got a reputation as composer of light symphonic music for concert band in Germany and abroad. In the Molenaar Edition catalogue you find already several of his compositions, such as Upside Down, Song of Freedom, the rhythmical study Rock and Go and the most popular Rock Symphonie. Schneider is well at ease in today's musical styles and this time he was inspired by jazz music. The three-part Jazz Suite starts with a nice jazz waltz; the more quiet second part is a fine jazz ballad, whereas the final part is an exuberant jazz samba. A com-plete percussion section and a piano will provide the typical jazz spirit.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/7378/en

Jazz Suite - Manfred Schneider

The Way You Look Tonight
This arrangement of the bigband classic is based on the song as it was originally used in the film 'Swing Time' (1936) starring Fred Astaire. 'The Way You Look Tonight' won the Academy Award that year for best song. Several artists such as Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé used it in their standard repertoire. Here is an excellent arrangement for bigband very similar to the original version. The extended instrumentation is particularly well suited for any entertainment music contest.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/19174/en

The Way You Look Tonight (arr. Henk Ummels) - Jerome Kern

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/11117/en

Formation Flight (For four cornets/trumpets and band) - Robert Allmend

Brabant Fantasy
For Band
Here we have a selection of Brabant folksongs in a modern arrangement. The main theme 'Duke John' is constantly present in different forms and makes the link between the different musical themes. This composition was awarded the 'Kempen' Composition Prize in Belgium.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/8738/en

Brabant Fantasy - Kees Vlak

Utrecht Suite

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/8750/en

Utrecht Suite - Ruud Bos

Hymn of Friendship
Michel van Delft should be considered as the inventor of the so-called 'play-ins'. These are meetings lasting for one or several days and gathering musicians from several wind bands into one big occasional wind band with the sole aim of making music together. This hymn is a symbol for the friendships that grow very spontaneously at those musical meetings.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/8736/en

Hymn Of Friendship - Michel van Delft

Rhapsody From Scotland
This rhapsody is based on popular folktunes and dances such as 'Annie Laurie', 'Gina Body', 'Meet a Baby', 'Hundred Pipers' and 'Auld Lang Syne'. Henk van Lijnschooten is second to none to picture the legendary, mysterious, though fascinating Scotland.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/7158/en

Rhapsody From Scotland - Henk van Lijnschooten

A Social Suite
A Social Suite is a fun, contemporary suite for flexible setting comprising of movements: 1. Follow, 2. Like, 3. Share. During this piece the audience is NOT asked to turn off their phones, or set them to silent. On the contrary!

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20523/en

A Social Suite - Ennio Salvere

Evita
The Musical
The musical comedy 'Evita' dates from 1976 and was the third whom composer Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote in collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice. It ran for eight consecutive years in the London West-End and was already acclaimed on Broadway in 1979. 'Evita' tells the lifestory of the passionate second wife of the Argentinian dictator Juan Peron. Eva Duarte was born in Los Todos in 1919. Her life was similar to that of Cinderella. Though from modest origins, she became the most powerful woman in her country as spouse of Juan Domingo Peron who was president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955. She died of cancer on 26 July 1952, only aged thirty-three and was buried as a national heroin. Even after her dead, she was the object of a lay cult with the poorer Argentinian population. Only the army and the aristocracy had always opposed her position next to the president. The story is told by a cynical young man called 'Che'. He envies Evita's success while he cannot sell his invention, a new kind of insecticide. The splendid selection was made and arranged by Marcel Peeters. You hear succesively 'Overture', 'On this Night of a Thousand Stars', 'Eva beware of the City', 'Buenos-Aires', 'Goodnight and thank You', 'I'd be surprisingly Good for You', 'Another Suitcase in another Hall', 'Waltz for Eva and Che', and the evergreen 'Don't cry for me Argentina'.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/9197/en

Evita (arr. Marcel Peeters) - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Two Songs from Porgy and Bess
2 songs from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess (1934). These are It Ain’t Necessarily So, a very popular song sung by Sportin’ Life, a drug dealer presenting his cynical views on the Bible, and I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ in which Porgy sings about his poverty with a happy-go-lucky outlook on life. Skillfully arranged by master arranger Johan de Meij.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/11221/en

Two Songs From Porgy And Bess (arr. Johan de Meij) - George Gershwin

Molenaar Edition is a publisher of sheet music for Concert Band, Fanfare and Brass Band. Molenaar Edition also has its own CD label, MBCD, that releases 3 to 4 CDs , a year.

The company was founded in 1933 by Pieter Jan Molenaar under the name Molenaar’s Muziekhandel. In the 1970s, his sons Jan and Bob joined the growing company. The name was changed to Molenaar’s Muziekcentrale, and later to Molenaar Edition BV.

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