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Osti Music is the Name of the Publishing Company of the Composer John Mackey:

John Mackey (he/him) has written for orchestras (Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Youth Symphony), theater (Dallas Theater Center), and extensively for dance (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Parsons Dance Company, New York City Ballet), but the majority of his work for the past decade has been for wind ensembles (the fancy name for concert bands), and his band catalog now receives annual performances numbering in the thousands.

Recent commissions include works for the BBC Singers, the Dallas Wind Symphony, military, high school, middle school, and university bands across America and Japan, and concertos for Joseph Alessi (principal trombone, New York Philharmonic) and Christopher Martin (principal trumpet, New York Philharmonic). In 2014, he became the youngest composer ever inducted into the American Bandmasters Association. In 2018, he received the Wladimir & Rhoda Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He resides in San Francisco, California, with his spouse, a philosopher who works on the ethics of technology, and also titles all of his pieces; and their cats, Noodle and Bloop.

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Sheltering Sky - John Mackey

Sheltering Sky John Mackey

[EN] Commissioned by Traughber Junior High School Band (Rachel Maxwell, director), and Thompson Junior High School Band (Daniel Harrison, director). World premiere April 21, 2012. The wind band medium has, in the twenty-first century, a host of disparate styles that dominate its texture. At the core of its contemporary development exist a group of composers who dazzle with scin ...
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Duration: 5:30 min
Difficulty: 3
Composer: John Mackey
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This Cruel Moon - John Mackey

This Cruel Moon John Mackey

[EN] This piece is an adaptation of the middle movement of "Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band." The full symphony tells the tale of Odysseus and his journey home following his victory in the Trojan War. But Odysseus' journey would take as long as the war itself. Homer called the ocean on which Odysseus sailed a wine-dark sea, and for the Greek king it was as murky and disorienti ...
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Duration: 6:00 min
Difficulty: 3+
Composer: John Mackey
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The Ringmaster's March - John Mackey
This is the final movement of the suite "The Soul Has Many Motions." Commissioned by a consortium of student music organizations at The University of Texas in recognition of Richard Floyd's tireless and passionate advocacy for music education in the State of Texas: Kappa Kappa Psi, Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota, Tau Beta Sigma, and The University o ...
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Duration: 3:00 min
Difficulty: 4+
Composer: John Mackey
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Strange Humors (Wind Band) - John Mackey
Commissioned by the American Bandmasters Association. World premiere on March 1, 2006, at the ABA convention in Richardson, Texas. Performed by the Baylor University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Richard Floyd. "Strange Humors" is dedicated to Richard Floyd. This work is on the Texas UIL Prescribed Music List, classified as Grade 4. Strange Humors represents another of Ma ...
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Duration: 5:30 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: John Mackey
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Article Nr: 149651
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Foundry (2011) - John Mackey

Foundry (2011) John Mackey

Format: 18 x 12 inch (457 x 305 mm) / Partitur 9 x 12 inch (228 x 305 mm) [EN] Winner of the 2011 CBDNA Young Band Composition Competition Commissioned by Worthington Kilbourne High School (Don Nathan), McCracken Middle School (Chip De Stefano), Piedmont High School (Andrew Anderson), Willow Wood Junior High School (James Shaw), Memorial High School (Heath Miller), Langley ...
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Duration: 4:00 min
Difficulty: 3
Composer: John Mackey
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Article Nr: 171216
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Some treasures are heavy with human tears - John Mackey
The piece is not programmatic. Rather, it exists in abstraction: a meditation on grief. In framing the work in this way, Mackey's music transcends elegizing a singular horrific event and instead provides an artistic representation of how we cope with all tragedies, both those that are intensely personal and the ones that are communal. It explores a wide range of emotions, from ...
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Duration: 6:30 min
Difficulty: 3+
Composer: John Mackey
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Hymn to a blue Hour - John Mackey

Hymn to a blue Hour John Mackey

Commissioned by Mesa State College, Calvin Hofer, Director of Wind Studies. Dedicated to Stephen Boelter. World premiere on December 3, 2010. Conducted by Calvin Hofer. The blue hour is an oft-poeticized moment of the day - a lingering twilight that halos the sky after sundown but before complete darkness sets in. It is a time of day known for its romantic, spiritual, an ...
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Duration: 7:30 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: John Mackey
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Article Nr: 171244
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Lightning Field - John Mackey

Lightning Field John Mackey

Commissioned by Patrick Marsh Middle School Bands, Chris Gleason, director.World premiere on May 12, 2015, Patrick Marsh Middle School Band, conducted by Chris Gleason.John Mackey's "Lightning Field" takes its title from a work of art by Walter De Maria. That work is a massive expanse of New Mexico desert, claimed and transformed by the artist via an installation of steel rods: ...
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Duration: 5:00 min
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Composer: John Mackey
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Undertow - John Mackey

Undertow John Mackey

Commissioned by the Hill Country Middle School Band, Cheryl Floyd and Charles Fischer, conductors. World premiere on May 13, 2008, Bates Recital Hall at the University of Texas at Austin, conducted by Cheryl Floyd. Though many of his pieces are extremely virtuosic, Undertow is the first of Mackey's works written specifically for intermediate band. It was commissioned by the Hi ...
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Duration: 5:19 min
Difficulty: 3+
Composer: John Mackey
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Article Nr: 154966
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Night on Fire - John Mackey

Night on Fire John Mackey

This is the second movement of the suite "The Soul Has Many Motions." Commissioned by a consortium of student music organizations at The University of Texas in recognition of Richard Floyd's tireless and passionate advocacy for music education in the State of Texas: Kappa Kappa Psi, Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota, Tau Beta Sigma, and The University ...
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Duration: 4:00 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: John Mackey
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Article Nr: 173595
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Let Me Be Frank With You (Band) - John Mackey
Version for concert bandIn the summer of 2020, in the midst of COVID, I desperately felt like I needed to write something joyful. So I started writing, and after about 24 measures, I had this terrible feeling not uncommon for composers that maybe the piece I was writing had already been written. And in this case, I feared that I had just plagiarized Frank Ticheli. I sent t ...
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Duration: 3:00 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: John Mackey
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Snarl - John Mackey

Snarl John Mackey

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Until the Scars (2019) - John Mackey
"Until the Scars" is an adaptation of the first movement of "Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band," a work based on the ancient story of "The Odyssey" by Homer. After ten years of bloody siege, the Trojan War was won because of Odysseus' gambit: A horse full of soldiers, disguised as an offering. The people of Troy took it in as a trophy, and were slaughtered. Odysseus gave the ...
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Duration: 4:50 min
Difficulty: 4+
Composer: John Mackey
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Unquiet Spirits (2013) - John Mackey
This is the third movement of the suite "The Soul Has Many Motions." This is also the second movement of the saxophone quartet work, "Unquiet Spirits." Commissioned by a consortium of student music organizations at The University of Texas in recognition of Richard Floyd's tireless and passionate advocacy for music education in the State of Texas: Kappa Kappa Psi, Mu Phi Ep ...
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Duration: 5:00 min
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Wrong Mountain Stomp (String Trio) - John Mackey
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Wrong Mountain Stomp (Saxophone Quartet) - John Mackey
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