8 pieces by Franco Cesarini selected to the Bandworld Top 100 Music

8 pieces by Franco Cesarini – 4 original and 4 arrangements – have been selected to the Bandworld Top 100 Music. This music will be read with the band directors attending the Western International Band Clinic and the American Band College. In addition, ABC/Bandworld/WIBC started a reading session at the Oregon Music Educators Association Conference to perform many of the Top 100 pieces. The scores of these pieces will become part of the Center for Research in Concert Band Literature ABC which, with more than 47.000 scores, is the biggest collection in the world.

Over the past several weeks ABC/Bandworld/WIBC have completed listening to all the new band music in print for 2024-25 as well as some important reissues. They have used a special set of criteria to select 100 compositions for sight-reading sessions by the Western International Band Clinic Directors’ Band on Nov. 23 & 24 in Seattle, Washington and then with the American Band College Directors’ Band in June 2025.

This will be the 32nd year to have a director’s reading band at the WIBC convention and will be the 37th at ABC. Band directors from more than 40 states and 5 countries will be reading this music and will have this list to share their favorites with their colleagues.

Following are the pieces selected:

EFC005 Festmusik der Stadt Wien  

EFC014 A Glorious Fanfare
EFC023 L‘Arlésienne Suite No. 2 

EFC004 Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor 

EFC022 Radetzky Marsch  
EFC017 Siebnen

EFC002 Sinfonietta No. 3 

EFC012 Suite Siciliana