Light concert music from Bernaerts, Chandos, DeHaske, Faber, Gramercy, Howard Snell, Kirklees, Lake Music, Novello, Obrasso, R Smith, Salvation Army, Studio Music, Windwood Music, Wright & Round and many, many more.
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Alex Lithgow Arranger: John Dutton
Duration 3.00
Alexander Frame Lithgow (1870 – 1929) was a Scottish-born, New Zealand and Australian based composer and bandleader, known as the "Sousa of the Antipodes".
In 1876, the Lithgows emigrated to Invercargill, New Zealand. After initially having cornet lessons from his father, Alex joined the Invercargill Garrison Band at the age of 11, and progressed to principal cornet by the time he was 16.
At the age of 17 his first composition, Wairoa, was published, and so began a productive life of composition, including approximately 200 marches, as well as numerous pieces for band, orchestra, piano and voice.
He died in 1929 a few months short of his 60th birthday and at his funeral, massed bands played one of his most famous marches, The Invercargill.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Arranger: Philip Sparke
(Rothmans Commission) Duration 4.17
Click on MORE DETAILS to listen to an audio extract of this work.
If you enjoyed listening to this excerpt and want to listen to a full performance, you can purchase the CD recording on this site. The CD is "OVATION !" with The Flowers Band conducted by Philip Harper. QPRL 229CD
Normally £44.00 - only £38.95 in our SALE - Limited stock.
Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika combine to form a new Russia.
This composition by Dizzy Stratford symbolises the birth of the new Russia in the time of Mikhail Gorbachev with its new openness in public affairs (glasnost) accompanied by political and economic reform (perestroika). Glasnost is a work offering a modern vision of Russian music. Dizzy Stratford has chosen to combine the national hymn of the Soviet Union with two traditional melodies which, with a steady, energetic rhythm portray the wind of change and freedom in Russian society.
To view 
