Susan’s Full Bio - https://bit.ly/2WyCVtj

Oliver Band Facebook Page - https://bit.ly/2xfJzKi

Popcorn Prelude by Mike Hannickel - https://bit.ly/2wvEM7u

Beginning Band Pick of the Week

Byzantine Dances by Carol Brittin Chambers

Published by Excelcia Music Publishing in 2018

This piece is fast paced and fun. It explores the Byzantine Scale so there are a healthy amount of accidentals. There are a lot of fun ornamental grace notes and trills as well. In the B section, we breakdown into a slower more seductive dance with a solo saxophone part. This is accompanied by the band snapping their fingers to give it a characteristic feel. In the end we recap the material from the beginning with a little bit of a round and a big finish.

Trumpet 1 goes up to D in the staff and trumpet 2 only goes to B natural in the staff. Horns go up to C in the staff a few times, but spend most of the time in their comfortable range. Also of note, there is only 1 trombone part and it goes up to Eb above the staff quite a few times. There is a healthy amount of percussion parts, but you’re going to want to make sure you have a really confident player on tambourine as it’s the most important percussion part in the faster sections of the music

Link to Listen/Buy - https://bit.ly/3bcHwFA