A unique work that introduces several contemporary compositional techniques including aleatoric and improvisatory material, jazz-inflected writing and an involved chromatic melodic sense, all within highly atmospheric settings. Dedicated to Dr. Donald Hunsberger, TEXTURES was premiered in 1979 by the UCLA Wind Ensemble. Contemporary and exciting!
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This delightful Grainger fanfare, entitled THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH was originally written in March of 1939. The English folk tune is based on a melody sung by Mr. Henry Burstow. The tune is also utilized countermelodically in the first movement of LINCOLNSHIRE POSEY. This Hunsberger edition is faithful to Graingers intent and clarifies the intricacies. […]

Inspired while vacationing in Havana, Cuba in 1932, George Gershwins work is an innovative contribution to his style. Mark Rogers new edition utilizes all the original music and orchestration. Modifications allow for improved intonation while retaining Gershwins creativity. An enormous contribution to the literature.
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This classical horn concerto has been masterfully transcribed for Wind Ensemble accompaniment by Robert W. Rumbelow. The first movement, Allegro Maestoso, is in traditional sonata form; the second, Andante, is virtually an ensemble piece with featured horn solo; and the third, Rondo, contains elements of the hunting horn motif that Mozart favored with the horn. […]

Confrey is known primarily for his novelty piano compositions which cultivated the style of Jelly Roll Morton and Scott Joplin. This arrangement of one of his compositions conjures an image of the household cat prancing along the keys of the piano. By use of secondary rag, the syncopated grouping of regular quadruple subdivisions into three […]

Rogers describes these dances as acts of fancy. The dances include: Dance With Pennons, Mourning Dance, and Dance With Swords. They are dazzling in color yet rich, sonorous and naive. Rogers 1956 re-scoring of the dances for winds added a singularly unique composition to the repertoire. This edition represents the first full score available for […]

This delightful early setting by Percy Grainger, using only the first four measures of a popular English song, contains many of the meoldic and harmonic twists and turns that we associate with his music of later years. Fred Sturms new scoring for wind ensemble brilliantly brings to life this Percy Grainger masterwork.
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Gershwins PRELUDE II for PIANO is the second prelude in a set of three composed in 1936. In Donald Granthams FANTASY VARIATIONS, both of the big tunes in the piece are fully exploited, but they do not appear in recognizable form until near the end. The work begins with much more obscure fragments drawn from […]

The music included in DANCIN INTO THE 20s has been chosen to reflect some of the styles of music and corresponding use for exhibition and social dancing. Each of the works has been orchestrated for wind band from extant published orchestra music of the period. The outside movements are energetic and perhaps more brusque in […]

Haydns most perfect concerto, originally written for soloist and orchestra, was conceived to display the capabilities of the then newly invented valve trumpet. This Robert Rumbelow transcription for soloist and wind ensemble was premiered on the 1996 Japan Tour by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Donald Hunsberger, conducting and Barbara Butler or Charles Geyer, trumpet soloist.
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