Landmark Suite for Concert Band

Landmark Suite was commissioned by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Boston for its 10th Anniversary season 1980-81. It was premiered in April of 1981 in Sanders Theater on the campus of Harvard University with MWS music director Rowland E. Sylvester conducting. The ensemble performed the piece again in 1982 at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston with the composer conducting. The commission instructions given to Mr. Hazzard in 1980 were that the piece could be in any form, should be no longer than 15 minutes and that the music should clearly identify the ensemble with the city of Boston. The five movements paint musical pictures of: 1-Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, 2-Swan Boats, 3 - The John Hancock Tower and Copley Square, 4-Old North Church, and 5-Harvard Yard. The performance time is 11 minutes.