The Dance of the Seven Veils is a famous, suggestive dance scene from Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, often depicted as a striptease in which the biblical princess Salome removes seven veils before her stepfather Herod, made influential by Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play. This dramatic dance leads to the demand for the head of John the Baptist.
Digital Score & Parts only available on request.
| Instrumentation | Wind Band |
| Grade | 4½ |
| Duration | 8 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | → Download |
“The Village School” a frivolous and colourful overture for wind band. The work, originally for orchestra (titled as “Regalo Festivo Ouverture”) was commissioned by the University Orchestra Maastricht and serves as a prelude to its concerts.
This version for wind band is also freely inspired by Jan Steen’s painting “the village school”, in which the everyday chaos within a classroom can be felt.
It is also a reference to the connection with the university, where students experience their hopefully best time of their lives that eventually leads to a successful career.
In the work, the various musical themes develop into a grand apotheosis.
| Instrumentation | Wind Band |
| Grade | 5½ |
| Duration | 9 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | → Download |
Le Carnaval Romain (Roman Carnival Overture), Op. 9 was composed by Hector Berlioz in 1843 and first performed at the Salle Herz in Paris on 3 February 1844. It is nine minutes of dashing music, orchestrated in Berlioz’s brightest colors, originally intended as the prelude to the second act of his opera Benvenuto Cellini. After the more or less debacle of the opera Berlioz reused the music as a stand-alone overture intended for concert performance and was a resounding success.
In this transcription the original color of instrumentation by Berlioz is maintained.
A great and challenging overture for wind orchestras.
Auditorio Rafelbunyol – Spain
11:00 Hrs
Koninklijke Harmonie Aurora Grevenbicht – Christiaan Janssen, conductor
Program: → Capriccio, and many more…
Sociedad de Santa Cecilia – Chelva – Spain
19:00 Hrs
Koninklijke Harmonie Aurora Grevenbicht – Christiaan Janssen, conductor
Program: → Capriccio, and many more…
Church Obbicht
19:00 Hrs
Koninklijke Harmonie Aurora Grevenbicht – Christiaan Janssen, conductor
Program: → Capriccio, and many more…
‘Pater Noster’ (our Father) by the Russian composer Nikolai Kedrov is a short but deeply moving chorus of the most famous Christian prayer. The work is an example of the Russian vocal tradition: simple in design, but rich in sound and emotion.
Nikolaj Kedrov, founder of the famous Kedrov Vocal Quartet, emigrated to France after the Russian Revolution. ‘Pater Noster’ was composed around 1922 during his exile in Paris.
It is an intimate. personal and inner prayer rather than a liturgical proclamation.
A beautiful arrangement for the sound and colour of a wind orchestra.
