The following Len Orcino original compositions - directly from Little Bear Music. The recordings are available. See order page for more information.

ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

NEW for 2008-2009 TOY SUITE Gr. .5 - $40 This beginning band composition uses the first six notes of the scale. The three continuous sections feature all the instruments with humorous noise makers. FUN! FUN! FUN! SALUTE TO T.A.E. Gr.1 - $40 Edison's inventions come to life musically and literally. This composition uses the concert Bb scale notes to depict TAE's most well known inventions. Sound effects and secret codes will entertain students and audience. YES, VIRGINIA Gr.1.5 - $45 There is a Santa Claus. Your celebrity narrator and band will spark your holiday concert with this famous news article set to familiar carols. A classic that is sure to be a regular for your holiday concerts. NOCHES ESPAÑOLAS Gr.2 - $45 In the classic spanish style, this piece has a very lyric haunting trumpet melody with plenty percussion. Ideal for concert and festivals. DO THE LIMBO Gr.2 - $45 "How low can you go?" Everyone gets a chance to play this rhythmic treat. Your students will ask to play this one every rehearsal. Turn the drummers loose and have some fun. Other LBM Compositions Around the World in 80 Measures Part II Gr.2 - $45 A medley of National Anthems, this clever arrangement takes the listener from the USA to Canada, across to Russia, through the Ukraine, Poland, Germany and France, across to England and finally back to the USA, all in 80 measures. A Phineas Fogg journey in minature. Use visual aids and you’ll ensure an entertaining concert moment. Rondeau from Abdelazer by Purcell Gr.2 - $40 A familiar theme to many thanks to "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra". A great concert program piece. The 3/2 meter may be new to some bands, but offers an opportunity to introduce this meter and similarities to 3/4 as is cut time to common time. It should not present a problem. MUSETTA'S WALTZ Gr.1.5 - $45 Feature one of your first chair players as a soloist on this famous Puccini melody from La Boheme There are sixteenth notes in the solo part but not in the band parts. This is a GREAT piece to teach rubato playing and the challenge of continuously watching the conductor. This is a lyrical as melodies get and easy to put together. You'll pull this one out every few years for its teaching value. Good sight-reading piece for older students. TRESOR WALTZ Gr.1.5 - $45 Who can resist a Strauss waltz? The arrangement will sound great in three or faster in one. The melody is fragmented and tossed around the band. The young musicians will need to know when to play out or when to back off. Also a fine opportunity to crescendo rising lines and decrescendo the descending lines. Very classy! THE GRIFTERS Gr.3 - $55 Grifter: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud. This is a fun and challenging Rag Time Two Step in the Joplin-'The Sting' style. Your students will request playing this one, and it's a great piece for parent listening. MARCH THEME Gr.5 - $65 This is an exact transcription of the last 153 measures of Tchaikovsky's III movement from Symphony #6. As stirring a march and melody as you can program. A great opener for top bands. MindScapes Gr.1.5 - $40 Commissioned by the St. Gabriel Bands, Concord, Ohio. This tone poem for your second year students has five connected sections; LandScapes, UpperScapes, OuterScapes, SeaScapes and InnerScapes. This is also ideal for a MultiMedia presentation, it includes a master part for anyone controling a slide show. Have your students select the proper slides and you have a great piece and presentation. CITY OF FAITH AND BEAUTY Gr.2.5 - $50 Commissioned by the Kirtland, Ohio Middle School 8th grade band, this is a perfect selection for CONTEST or CONCERT. Every section in the band has a challenging section, but not long enough to make it difficult to work up. COME SPRING Gr.2.5 - $50 Commissioned by the Wickliffe Ohio Middle School 7th & 8th grade band, this highly percussive and jazzy number has optional spots for easy improvisation. It emulates the turbulent transition from winter to the full bloom of spring. HEROS ARE FOREVER (Timmy's Song) Gr.1.5 - $40 Commissioned by the Willowick Ohio Middle School 7th & 8th grade Band. This is a percussion feature in which your percussion get a chance to "STOMP". In addition to the 'real' percussion they will use baseball bats and gloves and your snares will play on coolers in a 'dugout' in front of the band. Some simple cross-sticking has been added and a little added choreography and you have a showstopper for your spring concert. SUM TOTAL OVERTURE Gr.2 - $40 This medley contains songs with a number in the title. Test your audiences power of addition and recognition as they calculate the 'Sum Total'. Very entertaining! SANTA'S SITTIN' IN Gr.2 - $40 Santa's out looking at new houses and roads. He hears a band playing a concert. He sneaks into the concert hall and happens to have his instrument. Why not ask him to jam with the band. He certainly should be able to play some happy blues in Bb. "Hey Santa, Common and sit in!" Santa may have even brought a couple of musical elves along to the jam session. TEMUJIN'S RIDE Gr.3 - $50 Fast-slow-fast. Melodies in the fast sections are based on the interval of a fourth, this interval also dominates the harmonies. The rhythmic driving bass lines emulate the Mongolian Horde's drive across the Steppes and Asia. The middle section features long flowing woodwind melodies inducing visions of the over night camps. The challenge lies in the unfamiliar harmonies and interval leaps. Play it as fast as you dare. Your low brass and percussion will love this one! VOCALISE in Bb Solo for Euphonium and Band, Gr. 2, Solo Gr. 3+ - $40 VOCALISE in F Solo for Euphonium and Band, Gr. 2+, Solo Gr. 3+ - $40 Based on one of the famous vocalise of Marco Bordogni. Played by many instrumentalists over the years. Easily played by a fine HS musician with his MS band. Harmonies and ensembles have been composed, inserted and added. This is destined to become a standard in the solo liturature. Can be played by other solo instruments. THOSE CHRISTMAS DUDES Gr. 2+ - $50 The Jazz Band recording is on the 2005 CD A jazz medley with spots for improvisation. (written solos are provided) Can be performed by any combination of combo, jazz ensemble or concert band. Includes parts for concert band and jazz ensemble. ALASKAN QUEST Gr. 2+ - $40 For Jennifer Ramsey, Chardon's Jr. Iditarod competitor. Fast-Slow-Fast. Fun tonal shadings emulating day one of the race; the over-night camp out and day two, the sprint to the finish. Percussive and rhythmic. Performed by the OMEA District VII Honors Band 2002, Dr. Gary Ciepluch - directing. Performed by the OMEA District VI Honors Band 2003, composer - directing. TARANTELLA Gr. 2 - $40 The "dance of the tarantula" - 6/8 meter, traditional style themes will remind everyone of the Italian countryside, everyone gets to shine on the various themes. CONCERTO FOR KITCHEN SINK Gr. 1+ - $35 Modern jazz voicings for your youngest players. Features one or more creative percussionists (and/or administrators) in the everything goes, Spike Jones humorous tradition. Performed by the Crestwood MS 7th gr. Band at the 2003 OMEA state convention, Judy Guegold - director. OLD MAN NOAH'S MUSICAL ARK Gr. 1+ - $35 Theme and variation. Let your sections enter the ark, divisi, on the 'This Old Man' theme. A variety of styles; waltz, western, latin, rock and chorale, with four EASY key signatures creates an easy teaching and concert piece. HIP-HOP HIPPO ON THE HALF PIPE Gr. 1+ - $35 An X-game Xpert of Xcessive Size, a Rock the House Hippo Hipster on the Boogie Board! Phat Phun for all! LLOYD, THE LAMA'S LONELY LLAMA Gr. 1+ - $35 Introduce your young players to a different type of scale as well as the usual major tonality. Students will hear the Lama call for his pet and the echoes in the hills. The percussion add just the right flavor to the mix. OTTER CONFUSION Gr. 1+ - $30 Playful, sporadic, slippin' and slidin' - easy play for the larger instruments. Common melody instruments do have decending sixteenth note runs that are scale passages in easy ranges. DANSE CHROMATIQUE Gr. 1+ - $30 Created as a teaching piece, everyone gets a chance to play the concert Bb chromatic. It also includes a lot of chromatic lower neighboring tones. This waltz is best performed in 'one'. Easy parallel chromatic harmonies and contrary motion round out the compositional techniques. KLONDIKE and SNOW Gr. 1+ - $40 The adventures in music of the famous polar bear twins from the Denver Zoo. The trials and tribulations from 20 oz. abandoned babies to frisky 400 lbs. cubs. The low w.w.s portray Klondike, who leads the way, and the clarinets are Snow. A celebration of the team of humans saving these large creatures we share our planet with. Lots of challenging optional percussion. OUTBACK RONDO Gr. 1+ - $35 Add your own exotic sounds to this fun piece. It is written in rondo form with rehearsal lettering to help indicate the form. A musical adventure into and back from the 'outback'. Clarinets and alto saxes do a little quacking on their mouthpieces. Another fun percussion workout.

Personal Note
	The most exotic places to perform a Len Orcino composition: (thus far) The American International School of Muscat - Sultanate of Oman The International School Bangkok, Land of Smiles, Golden Beaches, gentle waving palms and dusky maidens. from Charles - CEO iBegin Software