My ensemble director is trying to program the next few concerts and actually asked us what we'd like to play. Effectively nothing is off limits! So why not see what everyone's favorite pieces are (hopefully with strong trombone parts) and suggest those. I'll give a list of some of the pieces we've played in the past:

1st and 2nd Suite - Holst

Angels in The Architecture - Ticheli

Godzilla Eats Las Vegas - Whitacre

Scherzo for X-Wings - Williams

Machu Picchu - Satoshi Yagisawa

Irish Tune - Grainger

I suggested Hammersmith and Vesuvius already, so what pieces do you love to play?

The Holst suites are great music, but the trombone parts are not particularly interesting. The euph parts are fantastic though. That tends to be the case for pretty much all the British stuff. You can't go wrong with a good John Williams tune, as long as it is not too watered down.

These are challenging but fun with busy trombone parts, and also crowd-pleasers.

Festive Overture/Shostakovich

Overture to Candide/Bernstein

Roman Carnival Overture/Berlioz

La Gazza Ladre/Rossini

Buckaroo Holiday from "Rodeo"/Copland (With a trombone solo!)

Marche Hongroise/Berlioz

American Salute/Morton Gould

American in Paris(Gershwin

Chester/Schuman

Danzon no. 2/Arturo Marquez

Arabesque/S. Hazo

Handel in the Strand/Grainger

Sacred Harp/Bocook

Suite of Old American Dances/Bennet

Bayou Breakdown/Brant Karrick

English folk Song Suite/Vaughn Williams

Anything written or arranged by Philip Sparke; Stephen Bulla; or John Williams

La Fiesta Mexicana- Reed