Concerto for Trumpet, Movement I: “Fe” (Faith), by Daniel N. Thrower in 2006.  Piano reduction, as performed by Gail Novak, piano, and Daniel Thrower, trumpet.  To purchase the sheet music of the Concerto (trumpet and piano), click HERE.  For the orchestral version, click HERE.

Concerto for Trumpet, Movement II: “Caridad” (Charity), by Daniel N. Thrower in 2006.  Piano reduction, as performed by Gail Novak, piano, and Daniel Thrower, flugelhorn.  To purchase the sheet music of the Concerto (trumpet and piano), click HERE.  For the orchestral version, click HERE.

Concerto for Trumpet, Movement III: “Esperanza” (Hope), by Daniel N. Thrower in 2006.  Piano reduction, as performed by Gail Novak, piano, and Daniel Thrower, trumpet.  To purchase the sheet music of the Concerto (trumpet and piano), click HERE.  For the orchestral version, click HERE.

Academic Fanfare, for brass quintet, by Daniel N. Thrower.  Originally composed for the BYU-Idaho Faculty Brass Quintet in 2005.  This performance is the Phoenix Chamber Brass in 2006.  To purchase the sheet music (score and parts, with alternate E-flat Trumpet 1), click HERE.

Monolith Fanfare, for brass quintet, by Daniel N. Thrower.  Premiered in 2009 by the top student brass quintet at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  This performance is Freedom Brass, from the United States Air Force Band of the West in 2015.  To purchase the sheet music (score and parts), click HERE.

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

 

 

“[Dr. Dan Thrower] is a wonderful player, and it is fun to hear our horns sound so good.”

 

             —Tevis Laukat, president of Cannonball Musical Instruments, 2016

Last Full Measure, for 24 trumpets, by Daniel N. Thrower.  This somber but exhilarating composition weaves patriotic and cultural melodies with Dr. Thrower’s creative harmonic and motivic language.  It was composed for America’s Freedom Festival in Provo Utah in 2003.  Sheet music is available upon request: CONTACT.

 

To listen to all of the Dimensional trumpet pieces, see the buttons on the left on the “Exquisite Videos” page.

“‘Quality’ and ‘taste’ are opposing concepts.  Quality of any product is objective.  It denotes excellence and superiority, with rigid standards.  From cuisine to music; art to essays, quality is determined by and adheres to a set of criteria firmly established by experts in the respective fields.  Conversely, taste is subjective, determined by any individual’s (or group’s) fancy and whim.  Quality distinguishes high culture from pop culture.  Pop culture is democratic (that is, ruled by the majority), and is blown about in the dust storms of mass media, politics, and popular demand.  High culture possesses long-lasting quality, standing firm through the ages as a granite monolith.  Quality exists, whether one likes it or not.”

 

Daniel N. Thrower, DMA