Band Composers

Question 1

Joseph Schwanter (b. 1943)

Answer 1

“And the mountains rising nowhere” (1977)

Question 2

Evan Chambers (b. 1963)

Answer 2

“Polka Nation” (1996)

Question 3

David Dzubay (b. 1964)

Answer 3

“Myaku” (1999)

Question 4

Bernard Rands (b. 1934)

Answer 4

“Ceremonial” (1992-3)

Question 5

James Swearingen (b. 1947)

Answer 5

“Lest We Forget” (2001)

Question 6

William Bolcom (b. 1938)

Answer 6

“Concerto for Bb Soprano Saxophone and Band” (2015)

Question 7

Percy Grainger (1880-1961)

Answer 7

“Molly on the Shore” (first in 1911)
“Colonial Song” (first in 1913)

Question 8

Michael Daugherty (b. 1954)

Answer 8

“Lost Vegas” (2011)

Question 9

Frank Ticheli (b. 1950)

Answer 9

“Blue Shades” (1997)
“An American Elegy” (2008)
“Angels in the Architecture” (2009)
“Ghost Tale” (2020)
“Sailing the Sky” (2021)

Question 10

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Answer 10

“First Suite in Eb” (1908)

Question 11

David R. Holsinger (b. 1945)

Answer 11

“To Tame the Perilous Skies” (1990)

Question 12

Yukiko Nashimura (b. 1967)

Answer 12

“Starship” (2003)

Question 13

Josh Rodriguez (b. 1982)

Answer 13

“When Stone becomes Forest” (2022)

Question 14

Alex Shapiro (b. 1962)

Answer 14

“Trains of Thought” (2017)

Question 15

Julie Giroux (b. 1961)

Answer 15

“The Nature of the Beast” (2001)
“Just Flyin’” (2015)

Question 16

Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 1975)

Answer 16

“Machu Piccu - City in the Sky” (2004)
“Hymn to the Sun with the Beat of the Mother Earth” (2005)

Question 17

Katherine Bergman (b. 1985)

Answer 17

“Dream Machine” (2016)

Question 18

Robert W. Smith (b. 1958)

Answer 18

“Symphony #1: The Divine Comedy” (1997)

Question 19

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

Answer 19

“Kelly’s Field” (2006)

Question 20

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

Answer 20

Three Quotations - “The King of France” “I, too, was born in Arcadia” “Darkest Africa” (1895)

Question 21

David Conte (b. 1955) Transcribed for band by Ryan Nowlin (b. 1978)

Answer 21

“A Copland Portrait” (1999)

Question 22

Larry Neeck (b. 1950)

Answer 22

“Under an Irish Sky” (2002)

Question 23

John Mackey (b. 1973)

Answer 23

“The Ringmaster’s March” a circus march from The Soul Has Many Motions (2014)

Question 24

Pavel Tschenokoff (1877-1944) arr. Bruce Housknecht

Answer 24

“Salvation is Created” (1912)

Question 25

Heather Ellis Koehn (b. 1979)

Answer 25

“Red, white, and starry blue” (2021)

Question 26

Dan Welcher (b. 1948)

Answer 26

Zion (1998)

Question 27

Timothy Mahr (b. 1956)

Answer 27

Fantasia in G (1983)

Question 28

Robert Jager (b. 1939)

Answer 28

Third Suite (1967)

Question 29

David Maslanka (b. 1943)

Answer 29

Mother Earth (2003)

Question 30

Steven Bryant (b. 1972)

Answer 30

Ecstatic Fanfare (2012)