A Crack in the Ice was inspired by a short piece of video footage of an ice climber on a wall of ice, hundreds of feet above safety but surrounded by...
Born in Liechtenstein, Josef Rheinberger was a composer, pianist and teacher in Germany in the 19th Century. He became the organist for his local church at the...
The work has a notation to be played "with dignity and strength" and it is that annotation which encapsulates the effect the composer and commissioner intended...
A complete suite of music for use at ANZAC and Veterans' Day Services written to accommodate the ability levels of students in their first two years of playing...
Arachnophobia taunts and teases the listener, musically depicting spiders of all shapes and sizes running, scattering and scurrying over chairs, across the...
The melodic 5-note title phrase of the classic hymn Blessed Assurance provides the starting point for Robert Thurston’s exuberantly creative riff on a beloved...
Sketches on the Navy Hymn: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save"
Robert Thurston uses the U.S. Navy Hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save, as a starting point for...
Two of Australia's most famous songs arranged for young band.Grade Level: 2.5 Copyright: 1989
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The composer has atempted to convey the feeling of both joy and sadness by contrasting the light, almost frivolous tune of Queensland Drover with the...
An old Jewish poem – they were called psalms – talks of being led, “beside still waters”. The implication is that in troubling times there is a place to find...
