Latest Releases for BAND • ORCHESTRA • SCORES

Arches is the latest installment from Elkan-Vogel’s series of band pieces for the university-level performing group. From the composer’s program notes: “Arches is a descriptive single-movement work. The title is double-edged — on one side, the music depicts the peaceful and airy grandeur of Arches National Park in Utah. On the other side, the musical structure can be considered an ‘arch-within-an-arch.’”

Elkan-Vogel, Inc. 465-00009 • $25.00  Add to Cart
(Full Score only; performance materials are available through Presser Rentals)

A follow-up to the highly successful O Magnum Mysterium for Concert Band, Contre qui, Rose is a lushly chordal, hymn-like beauty, a natural for its new setting.

Peermusic Classical
Set: 62172-804 • $80.00  Add to Cart
Score Only: 62173-801 • $9.95  Add to Cart
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Welcher has become fascinated with spiritual practices outside of the mainstream. His best-selling ZION for concert band, for instance, came about from his study of the music and worship of the Mormon pioneers of Utah. Laboring Songs and the companion Circular Marches were born from his immersion in the history of the famed Shakers. Their most widely known hymn, Simple Gifts, may have led Welcher to research other, more obscure, Shaker hymns, and several of these are quoted in the new Symphony No. 3, "Shaker Life." Presser is pleased to publish full scores of these two movements for large wind ensemble for library and study purposes.

Laboring Songs, Movement I • Elkan-Vogel 465-00001 • $40.00  Add to Cart
Circular Marches, Movement II • Elkan-Vogel 465-00003 • $40.00  Add to Cart
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Welcher has created a wholly-Celtic masterpiece in Minstrels of the Kells. Citing a goodly number of Irish classics, he covers the duality of the music - the soul-searing angst and mournfulness, and the toe-tapping reels and jigs that we know and love. The whole is a marvelous concert piece, the result of a commission by the Big Twelve Band Directors Assocation. (An interesting option - Welcher provides a spot in the second movement for addition of a "pub band" [Irish folk band] and a three-minute vamp!)

Elkan-Vogel 465-00002 • $55.00  Add to Cart
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A commission in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point could be handled by no finer composer for wind ensemble than Welcher. For Perpetual Song, Welcher also considered the fact that the year 2000 marked the 250th anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach and the 25th of Shostakovich, and he crafts his piece in hommage to these past giants, as well. The result is a work of a single movement in four distinct sections. (Dur.: 8')

Elkan-Vogel 465-00008 • $30.00  Add to Cart
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Carter Pann's popular ode to the thrill of downhill skiing, Slalom is now being published as a study score for wind symphony. Spanning several sections including "First Run," "Open Meadow, Champagne Powder," "Straight Down, TUCK," and "On One Ski, Gyrating" among others, Carter Pann explains in his Slalom Program Notes, "The work is performed at a severe tempo throughout showcasing the symphony's volatility and endurance. The work is presented as a collection of scenes and events one might come by on the slopes. In this way Slalom shares its programmatic feature with that of Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony. For college or professional wind symphonies. Duration: Approximately 10'

Theodore Presser Company 415-41125 • $40.00  Add to Cart
Performance materials are available on Presser Rentals.

Commissioned by the College Band Directors’ Association, Songs Without Words includes five short movements, each a musical exploration of a specific mood (1. Manic,
2. Reflective, 3. Giddy, 4. Stunned, 5. Confident), as expressed by winds, brass, and percussion. The finale quotes themes from the previous movements, then, says Welcher, “ends in a bouyant cloud of optimism.” Published in 9X14 full score.

Elkan-Vogel 465-00005 • $60.00  Buy
Performance materials are available through Presser Rentals.

Dan Welcher
Symphony No. 4, "American Visionary"
for Large Wind Ensemble (Full Score)

Commissioned by the University of Texas to honor a true Texas (and American) visionary, George Kozmetsky. Three movements describe various aspects of his philosophy, Machines (with some wonderful percussion effects), Family, and Community. Read a marvelous write-up of the premiere performance by Sara Lipka.

Elkan-Vogel 465-00007 • $60.00  Buy
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The Yellowstone Fires is the second of four pieces composed in Dan Welcher's Places of the West series, now available in a study score. It attempts to describe not only the destruction of the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park, but also nature's unfaltering ability to survive and renew itself. Duration: 9’

Elkan-Vogel, Inc. 465-00010 • $30.00  Buy
Performance materials are available through Presser Rentals.

Presser Music in Action!

Dan Welcher
Zion
for Wind Ensemble

Texas Tech University Band, Orchestra Camp 2007 Concert Band II performs Zion by Dan Welcher. Listen in on YouTube and follow along with the first two pages of the score.

Elkan-Vogel
Complete set: 165-00092 • $175.00  Add to Cart
Full score only: 165-00092F • $20.00  Add to Cart

New Band Works available through our CUSTOM PRINT Department

Custom Print works are print-on-demand, and are therefore always available. Custom Print works are now available for purchase online. If you are on deadline, please contact us for more information at sales@presser.com or toll-free (800) 854-6764, ext. 1

Commissioned by the Pennsylvania chapter of Phi Beta Mu (Internationall Bandmasters Fraternity). A 5-minute work which describes the prototypical hero journey, as distilled by Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler. Vivid musical imagery describes this “journey” from beginning to end.

Presser Custom Print 115-40200 • $258.95  Buy
Score only: 115-40200F • $23.95  Buy

Maggio develops and creates variations on melodies written by students in a high school music writing class! Three movements include: 1. Grand Opening; II. A Friend You Know Really Well; III. Psychedelic Circus.

Presser Custom Print 115-40199 • $182.95  Buy
Score only: 115-40199F • $26.95  Buy

Written in 1962, arranged in 1988 and premiered that year by the Harvard Jazz Ensemble. Manuscript facsimile, as rescued from the archives of American Public Radio in Minneapolis. Take Me Back was written by a young (27) Schickele, during his 4-year stint as a teacher at Juilliard, after which he decided to take his act on the road. Fortuitous, that!

Elkan-Vogel Custom Print 165-00095 • $95.95  Buy

O Magnum Mysterium is our best-selling choral piece and published by Peermusic Classical. Last year it became our best-selling concert band piece (arranged by H. Robert Reynolds). Now, this incredible haunting work becomes a string orchestra wonder, in the hands of Sandra Dackow. The perfect introduction to Lauridsen’s incredible output,
O Magnum Mysterium has become one of the most-often-recorded works in our library, and with good reason. While fresh and new, it has immediately claimed a spot as one of the most significant music works of its time.

Peermusic Classical
Complete Set: 62187-769 • $75.00 Add to Cart
Full Score Only 62186-766 • $9.95 Add to Cart
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The original commission for Concerto was sponsored by the National Flute Association, with the World Premiere by Jan Gippo given at the 24th NFA Annual Convention, 1996. Recorded by Sir James Galway with Liebermann conducting the London Mozart Players, Concerto for Piccolo has immediately vaulted into prominence in the piccolo's repertoire and has become a much-loved work for the smallest flute. It is now published for the first time in orchestral study score form.

Presser 416-41174 • $40.00  Add to Cart

George Rochberg
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Full Score — New 2003 Restored Edition
Presser 416-41277 • $60.00  Add to Cart

Symphony No. 1 for Orchestra
Full Score
Presser 416-41268 • $75.00  Add to Cart

Arvo Pärt
Da pacem Domine
for String Orchestra — Study Score
Universal Edition UE 33664 • $12.95  Add to Cart

La Sindone for Orchestra
Study Score
Universal Edition UE 33058 • $53.95  Add to Cart

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
LUVN BLM
for Flute, Clarinet in B Flat, Percussion, Piano, Violin, and Violoncello (Study Score)

Commissioned for the critically-aclaimed California E.A.R. Unit by Helene Mirich Spear in loving memory of her husband, Julian Spear. The World Premiere took place in a Valentine’s Day concert, The California EAR Unit in Love, February 14, 2006. The three-movement work (duration: 15’) includes Prelude, Song, and Dance. Performance parts are available on a rental basis from Presser.

Merion Music, Inc. 446-41202 • $35.00  Add to Cart

Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director.

Stucky's Pulitzer Prize winning orchestral work is now available in score form.

Merion Music 446-41200 - $60.00  Add to Cart

PULITZER PRIZE 2005!

Son et lumière is one of respected composer Steven Stucky's most widely performed pieces for orchestra, and it is now available in the format of a study score from Merion Music. The title refers to the sound and light shows performed for visitors to historical sites, and the piece is meant to reflect the wide variety of changing colors. Stucky is renowned for his masterful yet accessible style of composition, and the availability of a Son et lumière study score will be of great interest to conductors and libraries alike. Duration: 9’

Merion Music, Inc. 446-41159 • $40.00  Add to Cart
Performance materials are available on rental.

Charles E. Ives
Symphony No. 2
Critical Edition

No available is Jonathan Elkus' long-awaited critical edition of the Ives Second! Read all about it at Peermusic's website.

Published with the approval of The Charles Ives Society, and corrects 1,000 errors in the original 1951 score (and subsequent recordings). Premiere recording of this new edition by Kenneth Schermerhorn and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NAXOS 8.559076) brought rave reviews and an all-new appreciation of this classic Americana masterpiece!

Peermusic Classical 62130-856 • $59.95  Add to Cart

A handsome, oversize score for an unpublished Lutoslawski gem. Written for the children’s record library of Polish Recordings, the Polish Dances are a fascinating look at the composer’s craft, and should be treasured by Lutoslawski fans. P.W.M. even includes a full color photo of the composer, suitable for framing!

P.W.M. 576-00877 • $56.45 Add to Cart

Universal Edition UE 31468 • $28.95  Add to Cart

Written in 1977, revised in 1992, this Fratres for violin, strings, and percussion serves as an example of Pärt's three-part compositional approach. The works of this Estonian composer have been much discussed and appreciated, as he takes a place among the elite of contemporary writers, and Universal Edition is committed to providing his works to the community for performance and study.

Universal Edition UE 31998 • $19.95 Add to Cart

Schnabel's first twelve-tone work, aptly titled Duodecimet, was left unscored at his death. Fortunately, he had previously shown and discussed the "short score" with René Liebowitz, who later undertook the mission of completing the work, including the addition of percussion lines, as Schnabel may have intended. Thus, this cherished work from Schnabel's last days ("this silly little Duodecimet," said he) is preserved for us and is here published in score form.

Peermusic 62191-791 • $32.95 Add to Cart

The first in a series of tangos by Serebrier, who was born and raised in Uruguay, next door to the birthplace of the tango, Argentina. Tango in Blue was premiered in Argentina and has been recorded for release later this year on BIS CD-1175. New string quartet version was previously released.

Peermusic Classical 62103-856 - $16.95 Add to Cart