From Wintry Darkness-Light! (medium/medium-easy)
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"From Wintry Darkness-Light!" is a piece for concert band. It takes several of the minor key Christmas tunes (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Ukrainian Bell Carol) and mashes them all together. Most of the piece revolves around these minor keys, building intensity until it releases (the light part!) at the end. The piece would probably fall into the "medium" category, possibly medium-easy. Just take a look through the score to see if it's the right fit. I definitely wrote this to be a flashy and exciting piece. I love my film scores, so it definitely has a cinematic component.
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A Christmas Fantasy - Easy
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A Christmas Fantasy is a fantasia on several Christmas tunes for young concert band. The piece features the famed Bell Carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, O Come O Come Emmanuel, and even quotes some others like Jingle Bells and What Child is This. This piece was premiered in 2012 as an exciting holiday concert closer for a combined 7th and 8th grade band in a gym that was boomy and really loud (but also epic).
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Holiday Mash-Up - (easy)
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This is a mash-up of a plethora of tunes from the Holiday Season! And they're all mashed-up together. Seamlessly transitioning from one to another... playing ON TOP of each other... AND Jingle Bells and Good King Wenceslas literally get in a fight. Who wins? Who knows.. you'll have to play the piece to find out. Full (I think) tunes list includes: Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels, Ding Dong Merrily On High, O Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslas, Deck the Halls, Jingle Bells, Up on the Housetop, First Noel, Silent Night, O Christmas Tree, Jolly Old Saint Nick, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Angels We Have Heard On High. When I first performed this (back in 2012?? Where has time gone??), I included a "fill in the blank" portion of the program for attendees to try and guess all the tunes as we played it... lots of fun!
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Epic Bell Carol
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For now, all I have is this play-along video. I have an arrangement for full band similar to this, but it needs way more editing than I have time to do at the moment. If you're wanting it for a peformance this year, send me a note and I'll see what I can do. If not, I'll have a published arrangement out for 2021. Hopefully, this play along can offer some good entertain for musicians!
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