Rummel Bummel
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An ocean of colors, wonderful smells of roasted almonds and popcorn, exciting bumper car rides... already as a small boy I was genuinely fascinated by the fair and its colorful going-ons. Many years later, I told the musicians of my youth band ...
Kalahari
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The Kalahari is a savanna in the South of Africa that is often called a desert due to extensive sands. The large region stretches for more than one million square kilometers. An exceptional feature is the river Okavango that flows through the ...
Gospel Day
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“Gospel Day“ is a fascinating and sweeping concert piece, inspired by the exuberant energy of American gospel music. This kind of music celebrates and lives out faith and worship. Luigi di Ghisallo’s composition is great in educational ...
Break of the Code
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“Break of the Code” sounds like the score to an adventure movie. The hero goes on a quest for a secret – an old Pharaoh’s tomb. Will he eventually break the code and reveal the secret? This small but impressive concert piece ...
Abendmond
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This little nocturne “Abendmond” (evening moon) combines two German folk tunes: “Abend wird es wieder” (It’s evening again) and “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” (The moon has risen). I present the tunes both ...
My Dream
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Peter Leitner is composer, arranger, trumpeter and singer of the successful Carinthian group “Fegerländer”. Under the slogan “Der Blasmusik Schlager” (wind band schlager) the 13 musicians combine Bohemian band music at the ...
Israeli Folk Songs
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Eva Fodor writes about “Israeli Folk Songs”:
For a long time I had the wish to popularize music from Israel – the country where I grew up. And it always is a central idea of my musical activities to combine different musical ...
Pomp and Circumstance No. 4
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The five marches from the series “Pomp and Circumstance” op. 39 surely belong to the most famous compositions by British composer Edward Elgar. He wrote them between 1901 and 1930. The series’ first march with the lyrics “Land of ...
Lignum
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If you look up the Latin word “Lignum” in a dictionary, you find the word “wood”. But there is also another, more poetic meaning: the tree. The tree has always been a symbol of life, it is a manifestation of strength, tradition, ...
Carrickfergus Posy
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The beautiful and haunting Irish folk song “Carrickfergus” was almost lost and forgotten to the ages, had it not been for the Irish-born actor Peter O’Toole, who sang the song to his friend, recording artist Dominic Behan. He made a ...
Schweizer Mosaik
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Markus Götz used three Swiss folk songs in his spectacular composition “Schweizer Mosaik“ (Swiss Mosaic): “S‘isch mer alles ei ding, ob i lach oder sing“, “La haut sur la montagne” and “Zoog ä-n ...
Dance Variants
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“Dance Variants” op. 146 was a commission to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Honolulu Wind Symphony (Hawaii). James Barnes wrote a composition that combines an overall A-B-A structure in variation form. The work opens with a short ...
Maskarade
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The opera “Maskarade” by Danish composer Carl Nielsen is based on a classic theater comedy that Nielsen turned into a comic opera. Literary circles first were critical about this, but success proved Nielsen right – the opera became ...
Vita pro Musica
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The composition “Vita pro Musica”, meaning “a life for music”, was written in winter of 2015 to celebrate the 60th birthday of Ernst Oestreicher, chief conductor of the Northern Bavarian Music Association, and director of the ...
Joss Fritz
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Name source for this dramatic rhapsody was a historic character from the time of the Peasants’ War – Joss Fritz. The piece was a commission on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Musikverein “Harmonie” 1890 Untergrombach ...