After arranging this super number for big band, it just wouldn't let me go - I just had to rearrange it for the Southtown Trombones! Go to https://themusicsi.de/charts-2/ and follow the links to purchase the charts.

Seven Nation Army / Sweet Dreams Mashup

Elysian Suite for Trombone Quartet by David Fetter has four movements:
1. Fanfare, 2. Wind Chime, 3. Gongs, 4. March
The two outside movements are very easily understood, but the two inside movements are unique in that they convey musical effects as per their titles.
This wonderful, dramatic 10-minute work is appropriate for advanced performers.

Fetter - Elysian Suite for Trombone Quartet

Take an exhilarating ride through the Rift, an interdimensional portal that carries our adventurers (performers) through a harrowing journey. They will have to have their wits about them as they experience the diverse collection of worlds, colors, and soundscapes presented over 7 exciting minutes of music!

Rift: An Interplanar Journey

Angeli, Archangeli by Andrea Gabrieli is a sacred a cappella motet in the Renaissance style first published in Venice, 1576. It is in 4 parts and is contained in his collection entitled Ecclesiasticarum cantionum 4 vocum and is often sung for the feast of All Saints.
The text which is included with the score refers to the Angels, archangels, thrones and dominions. This work has been beautifully transcribed by Italian trombonist and educator Fabio Rovere for Trombone Quartet, scored for alto trombone, 2 tenor trombones and bass trombone.

Gabrieli Andrea -  Angeli Archangeli for Trombone Quartet

Chorus of the Infernal Spirits by Claudio Monteverdi has been brilliantly arranged for 8-part Trombone Ensemble by Marc Williams. The music from the 1607 masterpiece L'Orfeo is taken from Act III when Orpheus makes his entrance into Hades and is praised by the Chorus for his audacity to search for his love Euridice who has died in the previous Act.
The music is about 3 1/2 minutes in length for moderately advanced performers.

Monteverdi - Chorus of the Infernal Spirits from L'Orfeo for Trombone Ensemble

The Champagne Polka was composed by Johann Strauss II and first performed in 1858 for his successful tour of Russia where he played it in St. Petersburg, dedicating it to Karl Ludwig von Bruck an Austrian government minister.

One can use a bit of imagination and can hear the corks popping. A lovely arrangement by Jessica Hawthorne appropriate for moderately advanced performer, all in bass clef.

Strauss - Champagne Polka for Trombone Quartet

The Quartet for Trombones, Bassoons or Cellos by Harry Freedman was composed in 1973. One of the finest Canadian composers, Freedman probably was inspired to write this work while teaching at the Courtenay Youth Music Centre in British Columbia.
The work is about 7 minutes in length and explores chordal dissonances, syncopations and colors of four-part writing (using different mutes for the trombone version) . The opening closing of the work features intense, fast repeated 16th note passages with a more gentle middle section that is more contemplative.
The music is appropriate for advanced performers and contains the tenor clef in all four parts in various parts of the work (see PDF sample).
The studio recording (minus the first 2 minutes) by the CBC from 1980 features the Sinfonia Trombones (Vancouver Symphony Trombone section of Gordon Cherry, Greg Cox, Tim Skeldon and Doug Sparkes).

Sinfonia Trombones

Freedman Quartet for Trombones Sinfonia Trombones Cherry Cox Skeldon Sparkes 1980

Tint

World premiere of ANGELS AT NIGHT.
Recorded April 26, 2026

OKOYE - Angels at night for Trombone Quartet - World Premiere

Trbn 1: Kirk Ferguson, Assistant Principal Trombone, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Trbn 2: Mark Hetzler, Professor of Trombone, University of Wisconsin-Madison (former Empire Brass and former Principal Trombone of Hartford Symphony)
Trbn 3: Dylan Chmura-Moore, Assistant Professor of Trombone, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Bass: Alan Carr, Professor of Low Brass, Concordia University Wisconsin

City of Arts and Sciences || Trombone Quartet

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Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Band Coach
Tenor & Bass Trombone, Euphonium

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Graduate of Eastman School of Music
Retired Principal Trombonist of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and CBC Radio Orchestra. Formerly National Arts Centre Orchestra.
Retired University of British Columbia Department of Music

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