After digging through older blogs, I've located a few pieces that I want to highlight as some of my favorites. Tomasi's Fanfares Liturgiques features a distinctly 20th-century sound, skirting around atonality and flirting with it quite heavily. However, this isn't in the 12-tone or serialist style, instead being its own impressionist or expressive piece. Anthony DiLorenzo's Fire Dance for Brass Quintet is a fantastically energetic piece, sitting well into the programmatic side of music. It wouldn't be a far leap to imagine this in any movie soundtrack. The Seraph Brass has long been a favorite ensemble of mine, and paired with Jan Bach, one of my favorite composers for brass, you have a winning combination to my ears! (Adding Jeff Luke's arrangement of Hungarian Dance no. 2 for fun.)
Balkan Brass and Brass the World Over