Music for Concert Band 2021-2022 

Cuyahoga River March - John M. Pasternak

'Oumuamua (Euphonium and Piano) was inspired by the eponymous interstellar space object observed in 2017.  Scientists have forwarded many different theories to explain it, but without consensus.  It remains mysterious and difficult to define.

Computer realization

Sheet music available at Sheet Music Plus: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/oumuamua-euphonium-and-piano-digital-sheet-music/21837005?aff_id=607299 (Contains affiliate link)

'Oumuamua (Euphonium and Piano)

This version of The Star-Spangled Banner combines traditional and contemporary elements; it's a terrific addition to any patriotic or sporting event!

Computer realization

Sheet music available at Sheet Music Plus: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/the-star-spangled-banner-concert-band-digital-sheet-music/22109522?aff_id=607299 (Contains affiliate link)

The Star-Spangled Banner (Concert Band)

Chopin's Prelude in A Major is now available in a simplified version.  The arrangement retains much of the flavor of the original but has been edited to fall within the grasp of the early pianist.  The rhythm has been simplified and nearly all the large left-hand leaps have been eliminated.  Early intermediate pianists will enjoy playing this classic of the piano repertoire.

Pianist, Christopher Kalstad

Sheet music available at Sheet Music Plus: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/prelude-in-a-major-chopin-simplified-version-digital-sheet-music/21756969?aff_id=607299 (Contains affiliate link)

Prelude In A Major (Simplified) - Chopin

It's Raining Inside is a hauntingly beautiful and pensive miniature for solo piano.

Christopher Kalstad, Pianist

Sheet music available at Sheet Music Plus: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/it-s-raining-inside-solo-piano-digital-sheet-music/21940950

It's Raining Inside (Solo Piano)

The Foundations' upbeat hit is now arranged for pep band.

Sheet music available at Sheet Music Plus:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/build-me-up-buttercup-21156817.html

Words and music by Michael D'Abo and Tony Macauley
Arranged by Christopher Kalstad

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All Rights for STATE MUSIC LTD. Administered by UNICHAPPELL MUSIC INC. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission

Recording is a computer realization.

Build Me Up, Buttercup (Pep Band)

Norah Jones' breakthrough hit "Don't Know Why" is now arranged for concert band.

Words and music by Jesse Harris.
Arranged by Christopher Kalstad

Audio is a computer realization.

Sheet music available at Sheet Music Plus:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/don-t-know-why-22413701.html?aff_id=607299 (contains affiliate link)

Also available at Sheet Music Direct:
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1245546/Product.aspx?affiliate=66000 (Contains affiliate link)

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Don't Know Why (Concert Band)

My setting for SSA and Piano of Sara Teasdale's poem "Stars."  Mike Saccomanno conducts the Mead High School Chamber Singers.  Recorded at St. John's Cathedral in Spokane, WA on 5/19/2017.

Sheet music available at: 
JW Pepper
https://www.jwpepper.com/Stars/10841160.item#/submit
Sheet Music Plus
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/stars-digital-sheet-music/20162413?aff_id=607299 (Includes affiliate link)

© 2017 Christopher Kalstad

Stars (SSA and Piano)

"A Zealous Pilgrimage" for Tuba Quartet (EETT) is based on my choral setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 27.

Sheet music available at:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/a-zealous-pilgrimage-digital-sheet-music/20519995?aff_id=607299

A Zealous Pilgrimage (Tuba Quartet)

The title "It Perches in the Soul" comes from a line in Emily Dickinson's poem "Hope," and this music for flute quartet is based on the composer's choral setting of the poem.  The piece begins vivaciously, but ends on a note of near resignation.

The sheet music is available at Sheet Music Plus
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/it-perches-in-the-soul-digital-sheet-music/20526697

It Perches in the Soul

Studio recording of my SSA piece, "Pie Jesu", as part of an album of all-new settings of the same text.