Arranger
Robert H. Sloan, arranger, designer...
is a full-time band director in Van Wert, Ohio. But for the last 20 years he has amassed over 100 arranged marching band shows. Many of his competitive shows have won awards for best music, best percussion, and contributed to best general effect. His clients regularly qualify for State Contest and receive Superior Ratings at local and state events. Below is a list of previously designed shows. All shows were custom written for that ensemble and met appropriate copyright approval. Contact us in order to purchase a previously designed show (copyright will need to be secured prior to purchase) or find out more about a custom show for your ensemble.
In addition to custom design... all custom arranged shows include pdf score and parts, mp3 midi, reasonable request rewrites and rehearsal services (schedule allowable). PRICE LOCK guarantee for clients who purchase a custom show in consecutive years (means your price never goes up!). There is a solution for EVERY budget. There is room for your ensemble - contact: roberthsloan@gmail.com for more information.
What others are saying: “You wrote us one Hell of a show. 👏” -Brad Spettel, Marion Local
2024
ABAA Gold (Big Walnut HS). Dancin Queen, I Have a Dream, Mamma Mia
Countdown (Ottawa-Glandorf HS - State Qualifier). Distant Early Warning, The Final Countdown, The Big Race, Original Music
Industrial Revolution (Fort Recovery HS - State Qualifier). Terminator Theme, Master of Puppets, New World Symphony
Inside (Troy HS - State Qualifier). Inside, Dancer in the Dark, Prelude in C# minor
Milkshakes and Melodies (Continental HS). Rock Around the Clock, Earth Angel, The Twist, Johnny B Goode
Monarch (Marion Local HS - State Qualifier). Kings and Queen, Emperors New Clothes, Swan Lake, Original Music by RHS
Off the Wall (Madeira HS - State Qualifier). Ayo, Outlier, Little Blue, Off the Wall, In Living Color
Revolution (Columbus Grove HS - State Qualifier). Revolution, Wellington’s Victory, Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting, Original Music by RHS
The Second Law (Kalida HS - State Qualifier). Little Fugue in G, Supremacy, Explorers
Summit (Galla Academy HS - State Qualifier). To the Summit, Mt Everest
Welcome to Anytown (Van Wert HS - State Qualifier). Pleasantville Suite, Symphonic Metamorphosis Mvt 2, Black Hole Sun, Little Green Men, We’re Not Gonna Take it
Woodland Voices (Fairbanks HS). Repertoire: To a Wild Rose, Lost in the Woods, To an Old Trysting Place
2023
Concert for Marching Band (Ottawa-Glandorf HS). Repertoire: Rhapsody in Blue, Claire De La Lune, Sing Sing Sing, Requiem (Verdi)
Highway to Hope (Madeira HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Symphony No 8 in c minor Mvt. IV (Bruckner), Waiting on the Sky to Change, Is There Anybody Out There, Signs of Life, United We Stand Divided We Fall, Victory
Illusion (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire: The Grand Illusion, A Million Dreams, Perfect Illusion
Mirage (Columbus Grove HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Selections from The Wind and the Lion, Danse Bacchanale
On Wings of Beauty (Troy HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Morning, Firebird, Born This Way, Beautiful, Original Music (Sloan)
Steampunk (Marion Local HS). Repertoire: Steampunk Overture, Ecstasy of Gold, Wanted Dead or Alive
Upside Down (Gallia Academy - State Superior). Repertoire: Morning, Ode to Joy, Night on Bald Mountain, Overture from Dancer in the Dark
Welcome to My Neighborhood (Fairbanks HS). Repertoire: Won’t You Be My Neighbor, The Ants Go Marching, Teddy Bear Picnic, Theme from Sesame Street, London Bridge.
Witch Trial (Fort Recovery - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Dane Macabre, Wicked Games, Dies Irea, Original Music (Sloan)
Woodland Voices (Kalida - State Superior). Repertoire: To a Wild Rose, Lost in the Woods, To an Old Trysting Place
A Word from Our Sponsors (Van Wert HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You, Made You Look (Sloan), Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, The Home Depot Beat, Don’t You Want Me
2022
A Matter of Time (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire: Clocks, Time After Time
Click (Van Wert HS). Repertoire: All of the Lights, Freeze Frame, Paparazzi
Conflicted (Marion Local HS). Repertoire: Mars, Immigrant Song, Zombie, Alexander Nevsky
Countdown (Columbus Grove HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Vapor Trail (Sloan), Run Boy Run, Final Countdown
Fire Thief (Sandusky Perkins HS). Repertoire: Dawn Will Come, Light Em Up, original music by Robert H. Sloan
From Sea to Shining Sea (Gallia Academy HS). Repertoire: patriotic selections
FX! (Van Wert HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Bizarro, Boom Boom Pow, Sound of Silence, original music by Robert H. Sloan
Re: do (Fairbanks HS). Repertoire: Ode to Joy, Transatlanticism, Joy from The Awakening, original music by Robert H Sloan
Retro (Fort Recovery HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Back to the Future, Ice Ice Baby, Take On Me, Karma Chameleon, Never Gonna Give You Up
Speakeasy (Kalida HS - State Superior). Repertoire: West End Blues, Charleston, Sandstorm, Don’t Stop the Music, original music by Robert H. Sloan
Wonderswitch (Madeira HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Fly to Paradise, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, My Body is a Cage, Blow It Up and Start Again
2021
A-Maze-ing (Versailles HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Run Boy Run (Woodkid), Just the Way You Are (Mars), Amazing Grace (trad)
Caged (Columbus Grove HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens), Welcome to the Jungle (GnR), Roar (Perry)
commUNITY (Marion Local HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Exultate (Hazo), Only Human (Perri), This is Me (from The Greatest Showman)
From the Ashes (Black River HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Iron Heart (Standridge), Lean on Me, Don’t Stop Believin’
Giants! (Fairbanks HS). Repertoire: Giants in the Sky (Sondheim), Withstand the Fury (Sloan)
Magic of Oz (Van Wert HS). Repertoire: Overture to the Wizard of Oz, No One Mourns the Wicked, One Short Day, Ease on Down the Road, Dancing Through Life, Brand New Day
One! (Madeira HS - State Superior). Ode to Joy (Beethoven), Joy from the Awakening (Curiale), Hymn of Axciom (Teng), Make Me Smile (Chicago), Earth Song (Sweeney)
Queen Live! (Big Walnut HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: The Show Must Go On, Fat Bottomed Girls, We Are the Champions
Red Moon (Kalida HS - State Superior). Repertoire: Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Talking to the Moon (Mars), Red Moon (Sloan),
Sempre Aurum (Coldwater HS). Repertoire: Sempre Aurum (Sloan), Rise Up (Day), Wicked Garden (Stone Temple Pilots)
Together We Rise (Perkins HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Original Music (Sloan), Rise Up (Day), Can’t Hold Us (Macklemore)
Valhalla (Fort Recovery HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire: Operatic Selections of Richard Wagner, My Mother Told Me, Seven Nation Army
Yellow Brick War (Van Wert HS). Repertoire: Symphony No 10 (Shostakovich), Good-Bye Yellow Brick Road (John), Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Gangsta’s Paradise
2020
A-Maze-ing (Versailles HS). Repertoire: Run Boy Run (Woodkid), Just the Way You Are (Mars), Amazing Grace (trad) (cancelled due to Covid)
Angels in Time (Perkins HS). Repertoire: I Am the Doctor (Gold), Angels in the Architecture (Ticheli)
Behind the Door: FEAR (Van Wert HS). Repertoire: Fur Elise (Beethoven), Every Breath You Take (Police), Dead Elvis (Daugherty), Stayin’ Alive (BeeGees)
Caged (Columbus Grove HS). Repertoire: Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens), Welcome to the Jungle (GnR), Roar (Perry) (cancelled due to Covid)
Every Precious (Madeira HS). Repertoire: Vapor Trail (Sloan), I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (U2), A-ha! (Heap), Joy from The Awakening (Curiale)
The Final Hour (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire: Hot Blooded (Foreigner), Down with the Sickness (Disturbed), Dies Irae (Berlioz)
Mirror, Mirror (Kalida HS). Repertoire: In Darkness Let Me Dwell (Dowland), Crawling (Linkin Park), Within (Daft Punk), Breath of Life (Florence and the Machine)
Only Human (Big River HS). Repertoire: Machine (Bolcom), Only Human (Perri) Born this Way (Gaga)
Red (Marion Local HS). Repertoire: Vesuvius (Ticheli), Bad Guy (Eilish), Hungry Like a Wolf (Duran Duran)
Storms (Lincolnview HS). Repertoire: Over the Rainbow (Harburg), Withstand the Fury (Sloan) (cancelled due to Covid)
2019
Cafe Terrace (Kalida HS - State Superior). Repertoire includes: Reverie, I Can’t Help Falling in Love, Lady Marmalade, The Swan
Childhood Rewind (Columbus Grove HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire includes: New World Symphony, Bye Bye Bye, Twinkle, Twinkle, Children Will Listen
Fame (Marion Local - State Qualifier). Repertoire includes: Paparazzi, Livin’ On a Prayer, Motown Metal
Heartbeats (Black River HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire includes: Relentless, Young and Beautiful, Fix You
Heart of Darkness (Fort Recovery HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire includes: Africa (Toto), Dark Side of the Moon (Lovatt-Cooper)
Juliet and Joel (Madeira HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire includes: Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky), Piano Man, Uptown Girl, Prelude/Angry Young Man, And So it Goes
Love Conquers (Versailles HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire includes: Warrior, Shostakovich Sym. 5, original music by Robert H Sloan
The Music of Billy Joel (Big Walnut HS - State Qualifier). Repertoire include: Piano Man, We Didn’t Start the Fire, And So It Goes, Up Town Girl
The Right Side of Now (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Angels in the Architecture, Mad World, Medea’s Dance of Vengeance, Ode to Joy
Under the Black Flag (Sandusky Perkins - State Superior). Repertoire includes: Shipwreck, original music by Robert H Sloan
Woodstock (Dover HS). Repertoire includes: Feelin’ All Right, Evil Ways, Higher, Dance to the Music, Somebody to Love
2018
Another Brick (Kalida HS). Repertoire includes: Another Brick in the Wall, Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
Capture the Flag (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner), Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Lorde), Run Boy Run (Woodkid), Supremacy (Muse)
Fruit of the Captor (Marion Local HS). Repertoire includes: Ave Maria (Schubert), Dies Irae (Verdi), This is Gospel, Canon in D (minor), O Fortuna
Giants (Madeira HS). Repertoire includes: Giants in the Sky, Creep, original music by Robert H. Sloan
Gridiron Glory (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: The NFL of CBS, Theme from Rudy, We Are the Champions, Round Up, We Will Rock You, All I Do is Win
IO (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire includes: Jupiter (Holst), Black Hole Sun (SoundGarden), Vitae Aeternam (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)
Les Miserable (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire includes: Selections from Les Miserables
Somewhere (Black River HS). Repertoire includes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, original music by Robert H Sloan
That Moment of…. (Columbus Grove HS). Repertoire includes: Undertale, Pure Imagination
2017
City of Dreams (Black River HS). Repertoire includes: Dark Side of the Moon (Paul Lovatt-Cooper), New York State of Mind, Welcome to New York
Dreamer (Madeira HS). Repertoire includes: Fix You, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gravity, Fantasia in G
Express Yourself: the Music of Madonna (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire includes: Like a Prayer, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, Get into the Groove, Vogue and Express Yourself
RhapCity 532 (Kalida HS). Repertoire includes: Rhapsody in Blue, Ice Ice Baby, Waterfalls, Push it
Ride (Marion Local HS). Repertoire includes: Saturn Returns, Ride (Hazo), Ride (Twenty One Pilots)
The Struggle Within (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire includes: Angels in the Architecture, Stairway to Heaven, Evil Ways
What Lies Between (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Walking with Heroes, Fix You, Human
2016
The Accused (Marion Local HS). Repertoire includes: Dream of the Witches' Sabbath, Witch Hunt, 160bpm, Danse Macabre,
I Am Human (Madeira HS). Repertoire includes: Breathe of Life, Human, Vitae Aeternum
The Dark Edge of the Rainbow (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire includes: Over the Rainbow, Into Darkness, Purple Haze
The Music of James Horner (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire includes: The Ludlows, Take Her to Sea Mr. Murdoch, Theme from Avatar, Irish Party in Third Class, Music from Glory
Out of this World (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Mars, Jupiter, Vitae Aeternum, Space Oddity, Black Hole Sun
World Tour (Wauseon HS). Repertoire includes: American Fanfare, Crown Imperial, March, Danse Bacchanale, Malaguena, Danzon No. 2, Battle Hymn of the Republic
2015
Fear (Wauseon HS). Repertoire includes: Fear of the Dark, Night on Bald Mountain, Music of the Night, Toccata and Fugue in d minor
Happily Ever After (Marion Local HS). Repertoire includes: Gabriel's Oboe, Swords of Fury, Battle #2
Hero (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire includes: Supremacy, Holding Out for a Hero, Hero
Let Freedom spRing (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Star Spangled Fanfare, America the Beautiful, An American Elegy, Stars and Stripes Forever
Voodoo (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire includes: Voodoo (Montoya), Voodoo (Godsmack), Ritual Music
2014
Elements (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire includes: Tapestry of Nations, Stampede, Colors of the Wind, Under the Sea
The Lion King (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire includes: Circle of Life, Be Prepared, Shadowland, Stampede
Pure Imagination (New Bremen HS). Repertoire includes: Pure Imagination, The Dream is Collapsing, Sweet Dreams, The Place Where Dreams Come True, Prelude from Psycho, Dies Irae
TAKEN: Songs of the Siren (Licking Heights HS). Repertoire includes: The Makers' Mark, Aquarium, Shipwreck, Eternal Father Strong to Save, The Inferno
Rhapsody (Paulding HS). Repertoire includes: Rhapsody in Blue, Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You
Un-Masqued (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Phantom of the Opera, Angel of Music, Masquerade, Think of Me, Past the Point of No Return, Track Down this Murderer, Music of the Night
2013
The American Dream (New Bremen HS). Repertoire includes: Aerodynamics, An American Fanfare, America (Diamond) (NOTE: America by Neil Diamond is no long available for copyright approval)
The Bringer.... (Fort Recovery HS). Repertoire includes: Mars, Peterloo Overture, March from Symphonic Metamorphosis, Ave Maria from Symphony #1: In Memoriam Dresden
Castle on a Cloud (Licking Heights HS). Repertoire includes: A Castle on a Cloud, On Cloud Nine, Enchanted Spaces
The Road Trip of Life (Big Walnut HS). Repertoire includes: Ride, Highway to Hell, Bohemian Rhapsody, Flat Out and Wide Open
Twice Upon a Nightmare (Van Wert HS). Repertoire includes: Pure Imagination, Creep, Bully, Thriller, Dies Irae
2012
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