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Hello! It has been a long while since I posted here, and whatever little I did post went along with the refresh (???) of this forum. Anyway, here is an unnamed (because I'm bad with names) concert march which I have been working on and off over the past few months. It is written in the Japanese concert march style if you are familiar with it. The marches are typically written for the All-Japan Band Competition as set pieces. They tend to have a slightly different structure and (sometimes almost completely different) feel from the traditional English and American marches. There's no particular inspiration or motivation for this piece - just a short work which I had fun working on in my free time. Admittedly, this isn't exactly a piece which less experienced bands should attempt. If this piece ever gets played at all. Notation may be weird in some places (notes for bari sax are halved in value rather than stacatto-ed, questionable dynamics, no slurs in euphonium part, etc) but that is to achieve better playback quality since the midi (Sibelius Sounds) do mess up at times, so please don't mind them! Do comment on the piece, and I hope you enjoy it. :-)

I return after a long hiatus caused by study (and the recent pc destruction :D ) I tried to write a short melodrama for piano and narrator on the famous poetry by Giuseppe Ungaretti (you can find text and translation in the description of the video) treating the narrator in the classic way, with a rhythmically free part using only some strong syllables as a matching point between piano and voice (as opposed to, for example, Rzewski's rhythmical treating of the speaking pianist). I consider this a small-scale experiment: I'll try to arrange in this way Keats' Ode on a grecian urn. I don't know if this is the right section to post it: sorry if I'm mistaken!

Hello Tobias, Of course, I would love to review it. Although I cannot promise I will review it today. Maarten

Thanks, Maarten! Would you have a chance to review the PDF of "The Admiralty Walz", as you asked before? I know, it is a lot, but your opinion is important to me. Thanks again! Tobias