About Our Business
Barry and Pam Hurt each had long careers in Texas as public
educators, Barry as a band director and Pam as a special
education diagnostician and teacher. After retiring a few years
ago and moving to the small Rocky Mountain town of Pagosa
Springs, Colorado, they decided to start a small music
publishing business. Barry had a very successful career as a
music educator. Bands under his direction won 4 Texas U.I.L.
State Marching Band Championships, qualified to the State
Contest multiple times, and won numerous Sweepstakes
awards. He spent most of his career as the head director of the
Plainview High School Band from Plainview, Texas. At 350+
members, Plainview was the largest 4A band in the state.
However, Barry also spent 9 years teaching in class 1A and 2A
schools and is proud to have been a founder of the Association
of Texas Small School Bands organization. In addition to
writing music, Barry is an active clinician and adjudicator,
performing clinics and workshops and judging contests
throughout the country. Pam serves as the "Editor-in-Chief" of
the business, editing and printing parts, packaging and shipping,
making recordings, running the web-site (whew!), just to name a
few of her duties.
Barry and Pam Hurt each had long careers in Texas as public
educators, Barry as a band director and Pam as a special
education diagnostician and teacher. After retiring a few years
ago and moving to the small Rocky Mountain town of Pagosa
Springs, Colorado, they decided to start a small music
publishing business. Barry had a very successful career as a
music educator. Bands under his direction won 4 Texas U.I.L.
State Marching Band Championships, qualified to the State
Contest multiple times, and won numerous Sweepstakes
awards. He spent most of his career as the head director of the
Plainview High School Band from Plainview, Texas. At 350+
members, Plainview was the largest 4A band in the state.
However, Barry also spent 9 years teaching in class 1A and 2A
schools and is proud to have been a founder of the Association
of Texas Small School Bands organization. In addition to
writing music, Barry is an active clinician and adjudicator,
performing clinics and workshops and judging contests
throughout the country. Pam serves as the "Editor-in-Chief" of
the business, editing and printing parts, packaging and shipping,
making recordings, running the web-site (whew!), just to name a
few of her duties.
About Us
About our Music
Barry started writing music for small school bands back in 1982
when he was the director of a class 2A band in Texas. He was
frustrated with what he considered to be the limited amount of
quality music for small schools. He decided to start writing his
own marching band arrangements that would fit small school
student's ability levels. In 1983, his class 2A band won the
Texas State Marching Contest playing music he had arranged
and Barry continued to write music for his own band from that
time forward.
Over the years, Barry had many other directors ask him to write
music for their bands but he always answered saying "I'm a
band director first and I barely have time to write for my own
band! However, I will be happy to share any of our older
music with you." Over the years, many schools performed
Barry's arrangements and many achieved success receiving
Division I ratings, qualifying to state, and even winning State
Championships. Barry promised his colleagues that after he
retired he would have more time to write music for them and
our company is a result of that promise. During the last few
years, hundreds of schools across the United States have
performed Barry's music with much success and with several
qualifying to state contests. Barry is very proud that his music
has been performed at the State Contest by bands in class 1A
thru 5A since 1983!
Our music is written specifically for small schools and young
players. We take into consideration limited instrumentation (lots
of unison and doubled parts), limited ranges of young players,
limited technical demands, and key signatures in which young
players can play with confidence. The shows average 6-7
minutes in length (Texas U.I.L. rules require shows to be 5
minutes minimum to 8 minutes maximum). However, while
using these guidelines, we work to provide full thematic
marching shows that are exciting, have impact moments,
contrast moments, and offer lots of visual opportunities. In
short, we strive to provide music that is both fun and playable
for your students, entertaining to your audience, and competitive.
Barry started writing music for small school bands back in 1982
when he was the director of a class 2A band in Texas. He was
frustrated with what he considered to be the limited amount of
quality music for small schools. He decided to start writing his
own marching band arrangements that would fit small school
student's ability levels. In 1983, his class 2A band won the
Texas State Marching Contest playing music he had arranged
and Barry continued to write music for his own band from that
time forward.
Over the years, Barry had many other directors ask him to write
music for their bands but he always answered saying "I'm a
band director first and I barely have time to write for my own
band! However, I will be happy to share any of our older
music with you." Over the years, many schools performed
Barry's arrangements and many achieved success receiving
Division I ratings, qualifying to state, and even winning State
Championships. Barry promised his colleagues that after he
retired he would have more time to write music for them and
our company is a result of that promise. During the last few
years, hundreds of schools across the United States have
performed Barry's music with much success and with several
qualifying to state contests. Barry is very proud that his music
has been performed at the State Contest by bands in class 1A
thru 5A since 1983!
Our music is written specifically for small schools and young
players. We take into consideration limited instrumentation (lots
of unison and doubled parts), limited ranges of young players,
limited technical demands, and key signatures in which young
players can play with confidence. The shows average 6-7
minutes in length (Texas U.I.L. rules require shows to be 5
minutes minimum to 8 minutes maximum). However, while
using these guidelines, we work to provide full thematic
marching shows that are exciting, have impact moments,
contrast moments, and offer lots of visual opportunities. In
short, we strive to provide music that is both fun and playable
for your students, entertaining to your audience, and competitive.
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