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This grade 1.5 piece features some exciting teaching elements for
  emerging string students, including aleatoric improvisation and hooked
  bowing.
    
    
    
    This piece is based on the tree named General Sherman, found in the Sequoia
  National Park in California. General Sherman is a Giant Sequoia
  (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree and is the largest living tree on Earth by
  volume, more than 90,000 ft3, and is one of the oldest trees in the world,
  estimated to be between 2,200 to 2,700 years old. I find the stories of these
  massive and ancient trees fascinating, as it is incredible to think of the
  events in human history that these trees have lived through. This tree was
  alive when Plato was alive, when the Roman Empire rose and fell, and when
  Napoleon was alive. This tree survived through every major natural disaster
  it was part of in the last 2,000 years and it survived through both World
  Wars. As we live through some difficult times now, I like to think, "If
  this tree can live through all these difficult times, then so can we."

Sherman, the Great Sequoia

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1,000 Paper Cranes for Concert Band (grade 2)

1,000 Paper Cranes is a band piece about the story of folding 1,000 origami cranes. Although the history of folding cranes, and even the idea of folding 1,000 of them, dates back to the late 1700s (Japan's Edo period) the modern story is about the bombing of Hiroshima and a young girl named Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was only 2 years old and just about a mile away from the bomb when it was dropped in Hiroshima. Miraculously, she survived, until she was admitted into the hospital years later with leukemia. During her time in the hospital, a friend told her the story of 1,000 paper cranes, and how they were used in prayer to wish others well. Sadako went on to fold roughly 1,300-1,400 cranes over the course of two months, up until her death in 1955. Sadako was just 12 years old.

In the wake of her death, the Hiroshima Children's Peace Memorial was constructed dedicated to Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of other "Atomic Bomb Children". On top of the memorial is a statue of Sadako holding a crane. This memorial is a statue of peace, and has the following inscribed on it "This is our cry, this is our prayer: for building peace in the world". 

In the spirit of nurturing community, I honestly couldn't think of a better story of a community coming together to not just help each other, but to help the world around them.

1,000 Paper Cranes

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The Wright brothers are well known for building and flying one of the first powered aircrafts in 1903, in Dayton, Ohio. This programmatic piece follows the process of invention and creativity of the brothers as they developed the aircraft. First in dreaming of flight, developing through set-backs, and, finally, flying.

This piece was commissioned by Mark Thompson, band and orchestra director at Thompson Valley High School, in Loveland, Colorado. This piece was premiered by his band in 2024.

We Dream of Flight

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