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Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The symp...

Johan de Meij's first symphony 'The Lord of the Rings' is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sy...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The symp...

This unusual new work really lives up to its title with sound hitting the audience from all sides. The composer intended that this work not only be heard but experienced. The audience will feel how th...

Erik Satie, born in Honfleur in Normandy (France) in 1866 is undoubtedly one of the most striking personalities in the history of French music. He composed in various, often quite divergent, styles. B...

The funeral music from the melodrama Bergliot by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg consists of two instrumental fragments, that musically illustrate the dramatic events of the story. Johan de Meij i...

The funeral music from the melodrama Bergliot (declamation and orchestra) by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) consists of two orchestral fragments which illustrate the dramatical even...

The composer was inspired by heroic movie marches by composers including John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, and others.

The opera-ballet Mlada was an epic project involving six different Russiancomposers including Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Unfortunately the work didn't ever receive a performance howevert...

Le comédie musicale CATS, avec la musique d’Andrew Lloyd Webber, est basé sur le recueil de poésie de 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats de T. S. Eliot. Il s’agit du troisième grand succès de Ll...

With hit musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most successful musical composer ever. His most recent production...

La première mondiale de la comédie musicale Elisabeth a eu lieu à Vienne le 3 septembre 1992. L'accueil enthousiaste réservé à la comédie musicale a montré que la vie de l'impératrice d'Autriche fait...

Cloud Factory is an industrial piece, inspired by a huge steel plant in Holland. Following an opening section that recalls the sounds of the nearby North Sea, we hear the factory locomotives, the mach...

Ufo Concerto, the first solo work by Johan de Meij for euphonium solo, is not a traditional concert work in the classical sense. It is comprised of five movements that are thematically interconnected:...

The Continental Overture was commissioned by the California Band Directors Association [CBDA] and was premiered on February 23rd 1997 at the 40th annual CBDA Conference in Bakersfield [CA] by the Cali...

Chicago, America's third largest city, is characterised by its modernskyline with dazzling architecture, fabulous restaurants and swingingjazz clubs. It is also, however, famous for its bitterly cold...

The Ceremonial Fanfare was originally written for orchestral brass and percussion, commissioned by The Orchestra Osaka Symphoniker from Osaka, Japan. The world première performance took place on April...

As the composer of music for well-known movies like Bridget Jones?sDiary, Sense and Sensibility and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Patrick Doyle had already made his name. With the song Non Nobi...

For countless years the legendary Kitty O'Shea's, a bar at the Hilton & Towers Hotel in Chicago, has been the favourite meeting place for participants of the annual Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic. It...

Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara wrote this delightful and sentimental medley of folk songs from Naples, the birthplace of his father Antonio, to whom the suite is dedicated.

Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara wrote this delightful and sentimental medley of folk songs from Naples, the birthplace of his father Antonio, to whom the suite is dedicated.

Encore une suite folklorique captivante qui repose sur des chansons irlandaises, voici la suite des œuvres à succès de De Meij, At Kitty O'Shea's et Songs from the Catskills.

Encore une suite folklorique captivante qui repose sur des chansons irlandaises, voici la suite des œuvres à succès de De Meij, At Kitty O'Shea's et Songs from the Catskills.