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A La Lute invokes the great lute music of the past, while being completely accessible by your beginning string and wind players. The spooky melody is also a great way to teach about the A melodic minor scale! A great way to combine your whole orchestra!
Coast Highway (A Warm and Breezy Drive) explores pop-style string techniques in the style of movie and television themes of the 1950s-60s. It was written as a fun challenge for for an advanced middle school orchestra, and is a guaranteed hit with audiences of all ages! For your string players they get to use finger slides, and for your wind players this piece scales from string orchestra and percussion, to strings and saxophones, all the way to full orchestra. And for everyone solo changes are provided, making this a great way to teach and show off improvisation for your entire group!
This piece is also available for String Orchestra.
In Motion is all about, well, motion! Your string players get to play a relentless pulse and melody while accompanied by your winds and percussion. Very achievable, and a great introduction to D major!
Let’s Work Together lets your beginning band and orchestra members do exactly that-on their first concert! This is a purpose written work specifically for beginning full orchestra, allowing both your string players and winds and percussion chances to play by themselves and to all join each other, all at .5! No eighth notes!
Inspired by the “Society Band” dance orchestras of early 20th Century America, Ragtime Ragtop (A Tin Lizzie Drive) depicts taking the old Model-T out for an afternoon drive. From cranking the motor to a chugging start, cruising down the backroads, and the final screeching halt, this novelty piece is sure to please audiences with the sound images of what Happy Motoring was like in the early days of the automobile. It utilizes new techniques for your strings, including col legno bouncing of the bow and screechy behind the bridge playing, along with a lot of fun percussion effects.
This piece is written in flex style; it will work with just strings and percussion, but is best as a full orchestra piece.
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