Can't totally write off band music, mind you...check out Leos Janacek's "Sinfonietta" in a band arrangement. Killer. Also Karel Husa's noisefests "Apotheosis of This Earth" and "Prague 1968". Plus there's some Ives that makes ample use of band that's pretty skwonky-cool.
Certainly not as well known as the usual Sousa bullshit and/or the typical schlock arrangements of other pieces. And boy, have I had to play a few of those gawdawful things...try a full marching arrangement of "Endless Love", f'rinstance. Fuckin' horrid...
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