Gelber, Dan

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Dan Gelber

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Dan Gelber is a newly retired 38-year veteran band director. Dan has a bachelors degree in music education and percussion from the University of North Texas in Denton. He has a masters degree in music theory and composition from East Texas A&M in Commerce. His performance career includes performances with various bands, ensembles, orchestras, choirs, jazz groups, and drum and bugle corps. As a composer and arranger, he has written for concert bands, percussion ensembles, choirs, jazz bands, and strings. He is a member of TMEA, TBA, and PAS. He currently resides in Flower Mound, TX, with his wife Stephanie.

Works for Percussion

Small Percussion Ensemble

Caribbean Cruz - 4 Players
Caribbean Holiday - 6 Players
Drum Trio No. 1 - 3 Players
Drum Trio No. 2 - 3 Players
Drum Quartet No. 1 - 4 Players
Mi Amigo - 8 Players
Undercover Mambo - 5 Players

Large Percussion Ensemble

Time Changes - 11 Players
Undercover Soca - 11 Players

Arrangements for Percussion

Percussion Quartet Works

Mapleleaf Rag (Joplin - Gelber)

Percussion Quintet Works

The Entertainer (Joplin - Gelber)
Minuet (Bach - Gelber)

Percussion Sextet Works

Dance of the Sugar-Plumb Fairy (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)
Dance of the Swans (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)
Hunter's Chorus (C.M von Weber - Gelber)
Invention no. 8 (Bach - Gelber)
Pavane for a Dead Princess (Ravel - Gelber)

Percussin Septet Works

Deus in Adjutorium (Pachelbel - Gelber)

Percussion Octet Works

2 Holiday Carols (Trad. - Gelber)
A Trio of Carols (Trad. - Gelber)
Air (Bach - Gelber)
African Carol (Trad. - Gelber)
Brasil (Barosso - Gelber)
Can Can (Bizet - Gelber)
Canon in D (Pachelbel - Gelber)
Childrens March (Grainger - Gelber)
Dargason from Suite #2 (Holst - Gelber)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart - Gelber)
Fugue in G Minor (Bach - Gelber)
Hanukah Time (Trad. - Gelber)
Morning from Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg - Gelber)
Spoon River (Grainger - Gelber)
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven - Gelber)
Toreador March (Bizet - Gelber)
Twinkle Rhumba (Trad. - Gelber)
Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)

Percussion Nonet Works

Greenbushes (Trad. - Gelber)
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel - Gelber)
Jingle Bells (Pierpont - Gelber)
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (Glinka - Gelber)
Turkish March (Beethoven - Gelber)
William Tell (Rossini - Gelber)

10 Players Works

Colonel Bogey (Alford - Gelber)
Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach - Gelber)
Jingle Bells Cha Cha Cha (Pierpont - Gelber)
Song of the Blacksmith from Suite #2 (Holst - Gelber)
Songs of the Civil War (Trad. - Gelber)
Spinning Song (Ellmenreich - Gelber)

11 Players Works

Farandole (Bizet - Gelber)
Habenera/Carmen (Bizet - Gelber)
Horkstow Grange (Trad. - Gelber)
Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel - Gelber)
March from Suite #1 (Holst - Gelber)
March of the Safely Grazing Sheep (Bach - Gelber)
Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia (Delibes - Gelber)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa - Gelber)

12 Players Works

In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg - Gelber)
Procession of the Nobles (Rimsky-Korsakov - Gelber)
Slavonic Dance No. 1 (Dvorak - Gelber)
Trepak from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)
Ukrainian Bell Carol (Leontovych - Gelber)

13 Players Works

Dance of the Tumblers (Korsakov - Gelber)
Handel In the Strand (Grainger - Gelber)
Russian Sailors Dance (Gliere - Gelber)