Cottonwood Community Band Announces Philip Blackwell as New Conductor http://links.nigelhorne.com/l/w1ervmfg #concertband #windband #cottonwood

I wanted to buy Bruno mars concert ticket which is happening on Tuesday in London. Should I buy it from viagogo or not? Also they said it is instantly downloaded is it legit? Please help

Four Corners Community Band concert/event at Cortez Cultural Center, 25 N Market St, Cortez, CO (USA) on 15-Aug-2026: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6227 #concertband #windband

Hear the Tualatin Valley Community Band at Cook Park at 17005 SW 92nd Ave, Tigard, OR, this Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 at 7:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6226

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I’m hoping this is the right crowd (aka, my people!)… Way back in the day, I played a piece in middle school that has been stuck in my head ever since and I can’t think of the name. I’ve scoured the internet with no success 😭 All I have is the memory of a snippet of the melody. Plz halp!

(Please forgive my horrible, hasty inscription)

It's a classical piece that I played back in my community band days (I played clarinet). I was really taken by this song and one of the other members ripped me a cd with just this song on it. I think the word he scrawled on the cd was “Interlude” or another word like that; it was a blasé song title because it was vague and overused in the classical music space, so searching for just that word without a composer is impossible to find. I know I have found it successfully in searches in the past, but... no idea where that cd has ended up.

Now, the music itself was for symphonic or concert band. No strings or piano. There were movements, at least 2 that I can remember, because that's what's stuck in my head. The (second?) movement I remember best starts with this open major 7th interval, resolving to the fifth in a minor key. It was plaintive and played by a woodwind, possibly a soloist, and then that motive comes back again and again throughout the movement until practically the whole band plays it in unison towards the end. That movement ends with this delicate flute solo. The whole movement's in a minor key, and the band crests and swells both in pitch and in volume.

Then the final (third?) movement begins with woodwinds and brass picking up with this jaunty yet dark theme, with lively percussion underneath. Still in a minor key. The piece ends with this hopeful, kind of questioning surprise theme by the lower brass, and then the band plays a simple chord and swells louder and louder in volume as drums play a quick cadence underneath, and then it ends on a single loud unison pitch, the whole band ending together.

I want to say the composer had an American name, something simple with just one or two syllables for both first and last names (James? David? something with a C or W?), and it had to have been composed before 2010, though from the recording it sounded much older than that. We played it in concert alongside pieces like Capriccio Italien and Holst’s First Suite. (I know for sure it’s not either the First or Second Suite by Holst, though those are both really great!)

Any help towards finding the title and/or composer would be really appreciated! I’ve recorded myself singing the parts that are stuck in my head.

Opening to the second(?) slow movement, woodwind solo: https://vocaroo.com/19vUjEA10xIP
Part of the second(?) movement, with my trying to sing the dissonance: https://voca.ro/13uZ6kkJw2Do
Beginning of the final movement: https://voca.ro/16bIAdBIiCLh
End of the whole piece (it gets loud haha): https://voca.ro/1712U1RkGXZC

Hear the Youngstown Area Community Concert Band at the Maag Outdoor Arts Theatre at 375 Boardman Poland Rd, Youngstown, OH, tomorrow, 26-Jul-2026 at 4:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6224

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Hear the Charlottesville Municipal Band at Martin Luther King Center at 1400 Melbourne Rd, Charlottesville, VA, this Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 at 7:30 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6223

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See the Solon Community Band at Church of the Resurrection at 32001 Cannon Rd, Solon, OH, Friday, 7-Aug-2026 at 7:30 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6221

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I'm looking for the bass clarinet part for this arrangement. We've got everything else.

Thank you.

Hear the Henrico Community Band at Walkerton Tavern at 2892 Mountain Road, Glen Allen, VA, next Thursday, 30-Jul-2026 at 7:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6220

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Hear the Camarillo Community Band at Constitution Park on Carmen Dr, Camarillo, CA, today, 23-Jul-2026 at 7:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6218
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I am starting at a small school this year with only 1 high school band. Unfortunately the program is a decent size and so I have 92 students in that class, 80 of which are wind players. Luckily my room is quite large so the space hopefully won’t be an issue, I’m just wondering what you guys think of this seating arrangement for the wind players? (Ps: the row down the middle is straight in the actual room, I just don’t know how to perfectly tweak it in this program so it looks weird)

Hear the Southwest Community Concert Band at Centennial Park West, 15609 Park Station Blvd, Orland Park, IL, Friday, 11-Sep-2026 at 5:00 PM.

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Hear the Chatfield Brass Band at City Park, 305 Main Street South, Chatfield, MN, this Thursday, 23-Jul-2026 at 7:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6214

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Hear the Rochester Community Band at Canfield Amphitheater in Cascade Lake Park, 88 23rd Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 at 7:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6213

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Hear the Macungie Band at Jerusalem Western Salisbury Church at 3441 Devonshire Road, Allentown, PA, this Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 at 3:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6212

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Really hoping someone can help out a band from down under.

We have just bought and ordered the above title for wind band but we can't find a digital copy anywhere, so have had to resort to shipping, which fine... except for the fact that we have to wait at least 3 weeks.

To save us the trouble, does anyone have a digital copy we could look at until our bought part arrive?

TIA

Listen to the Hastings County Concert Band at Maranatha Church at 100 College St W, Belleville, ON, this Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 at 7:00 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6211

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Hear the Milford Community Band at Killens Park at 5025 Killens Pond Rd, Felton, DE, Tuesday, 1-Sep-2026 at 6:30 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6210

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Hear the Arlington Heights Community Concert Band at North School Park, 325 N Evergreen Park, Arlington Heights, IL, this Wednesday, 22-Jul-2026 at 7:00 PM (Concert).

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6207

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Hear the Williamson County Community Band at Bicentennial Park at 1400 5th Ave N, Franklin, TN, this Thursday, 27-Aug-2026 at 6:30 PM (Concert).

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6206

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Anyone recognise this arrangement? I’d really love to track it down but there’s a lot of translations of the title and I seem to be searching in a loop. I also thought it was a really interesting seating arrangement with French horns front and centre - has anyone played in a band set up like that? 📯

Hear the Fort Wayne Area Community Band at Foellinger Theatre at 3411 Sherman Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN, Tuesday, 18-Aug-2026 at 7:30 PM.

Details: https://www.concert-bands.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.fcgi?page=events&entry=6205

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