The Air Race - Otto M. Schwarz

In 1934, the city of Melbourne celebrated its centenary and marked the occasion with the MacRobertson International Air Race. KLM's entry was its first DC-2, PH-AJU 'Uiver' (Stork), which took off on 20 October 1934. Shortly before the finish, the plane had to make an emergency landing due to poor weather conditions. The following morning, the entire town turned out to dig the aircraft out of the mud, enabling to resume its flight. Nonetheless, the distance was covered in three days, 18 hours and 17 minutes: a winning performance! This programmatic piece tells the story describing the start of the engines in bar one, the flight over the clouds, the thunderstorm, theemergency landing and many more scenes!

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The Airships

The Airships floats just like the aircrafts the piece is named After, inspired by composer George Sweet's childhood love of fantasy and adventure novels. Bold and strident, the dramatic ending of The Airships will inspire great confidence in your students.

The Alchemist for Symphonic Band - Leroy Osmon

Leroy Osmon - The Alchemist (The Legend or Zarina) for Concert Band.

The Alchemist's Touch - Gene Milford

Atmospheric, with a sense of mystery and intrigue, The Alchemist's Touch is a rhythmic, steadily moving piece that allows for experimentation with mechanical pencils, small screwdrivers, and portions of coat hangers within its strong, dramatic framework.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Charles Gounod

The Alien's Revenge - John Prescott

Those pesky interstellar visitors from outer space are back! In earlier works in this "Aliens" series, these other-worldly characters with their grand plan of taking over our planet were defeated - but now theyve returned with a vengeance! Even the special sound effects return, adding to the eerie and mysterious atmosphere that surrounds the extraterrestrial invaders.

The Aliens Return - John Prescott

An exciting piece that tells of ancient aliens that visited Earth long before there was any intelligent life. Now they have returned through a wormhole portal hidden in a cave deep in the Ozarks. They want to share many remarkable secrets but we cannot decipher their language - listen carefully as their message is reproduced here in the hope that someone out there will be able to figure out what it means.

The Ambient Air - Louise Talma

In what The New York Times' Allan Kozinn referred to as, "the hauntingly beautiful Ambient Air ... a set of vivid evocations of nature," Talma wrote four descriptive movements while in relative seclusion at the MacDowell Colony in 1983. Movements includes Echo Chamber, Driving Rain, Creeping Fog, and Shifting Winds. Featured on the Naxos American Classics label recording of the same name, by Ambache Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble. Dur.: 13'30"

The American Boy - Herman Bellstedt

The American Road - Jerry Brubaker

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