Festive Overture - Bedrich Smetana - Jan Valta

Festive Overture - Kenneth Hesketh

A Festive Overture received its world premire on 23rd March 2002 at the BASBWE International Conference, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester by the Central Band of the RAF, conducted by WingCommander Rob Wiffin. The outer sections are busy and colourful, framing an expansive middle section, where Hesketh introduces a typically broad melody. Brass Band Grade 6: Championship Duration: 7 minutes

Festive Overture - Reinhold Glière - Michal Worek

Festive Prelude - Richard Strauss - John Glenesk Mortimer

Festivitas - Fredrick Schjelderup

"Festivitas" is written as an effective concert opener which fits every occasion.The piece includes fanfares, virtuose passages and hymn tune."Festivitas" is written as the 1st movement of the piece "Festive Fireworks", which also can be performed as a larger concert or contest piece.

Festivity - Bertrand Moren

Festivity - Hartmann

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Festivo! - Dean Jones

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Festivus Americas - Stephen Bulla

Dedicated to the North American Brass Band Association, this is music that is full of energy and dynamic extremes. In form it draws from the overture style, although the themes are self-existing and the piece is programmatic. Working well asa festival opener, it sets a mood of excitement. Following the rhythmic fanfares of the opening, the first theme is presented in the cornets followed by a return to the same rhythmic material. A second theme appears in the horn section and isdeveloped, changing into a darker and sinister form of the same motif. Eventually a Maestoso section is reached, full of sustained block chords in the cornets and trombones, as the rest of the band counters with cascading lines that weavestraight through the brighter instruments.

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Festliche Weihnachtssuite - Jean-François Michel - Jirka Kadlec