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Endurance! takes dips and turns through the ease and tumult of the journey towards our desired outcomes. Earth, Wind and Fire said, “sing a song, it’ll make a way” and this piece does just that. Containing an African American folk song entitled Don’t be Weary Traveler with a catchy melody and lyrics meant to inspire and empower its singer toward achieving their most trying tasks.

Endurance

Concert Band Score & Parts

The title of this piece is a conglomeration of two words: the Italian word ‘tutti’, means ‘all’ or ‘everyone’, and the term ‘tarana’ designates a specific Hindustani (North Indian) musical form, whose closest Western counterpart is the ‘scat’ in jazz. The tarana is a place where musicians can put their greatest virtuosity on display, leaving an audience in awe. While a tarana is a solo form, I wanted to bring that same energy to an ensemble form. This work was originally written for treble chorus, then arranged for brass quintet, and is now in its third iteration for concert band.

Tuttarana

Editors Choice Year

This descriptive work is a musical narrative that comes from an old Scandinavian folk tale. It explains that the beautiful, awe-inspiring northern lights are actually carrying fallen Vikings up to Valhalla. Other versions say that the lights were the dying warriors' final exhales and farewells before entering the afterlife. Winner of the 2022 National Band Association Merrill Jones Memorial Band Composition Contest.

Voyage of the Northern Lights

This piece is about chasing after your dreams. Don’t let your circumstances bring you to the point of giving up and remember that you will always have to be in pursuit of what you want your life to become.

In Pursuit

After years of reflection on the loss of a father, this wistful yet exuberant work is a tribute to the constants in our lives, the steadfast forces from which we draw love, energy, and resilience. In this sense, it serves as a companion piece or foil to Deciduous, written while the pain was still fresh. While loss may lead us to initially fixate on what is gone, remembering what remains – what has always been there, and what will continue to be – helps us move forward.

Evergreen

This piece captures the excitement, anticipation, enthusiasm, and even moments of hesitation that come with the start of a new adventure. With syncopated rhythms, long lyrical phrases, and melodic features throughout the ensemble, this piece provides musical challenges to empower everyone in the band.

The Journey Begins

A depiction of training and mastering one's craft to reach a certain goal, the piece keeps a steady and intense pace while involving challenging grooves and colors. As the piece goes on – like the support of the people who want the best for you – the piece fills with energy and strength, ultimately leading to a sonic illustration of success. This piece is a reminder that with just the smallest bit of faith, you can go far – and when there are people who believe in you, your world is limitless.

Ready Set Go

This piece depicts a beautiful hike up a mountain road. Flexible parts are perfect for a beginning band.

Up the Mountain Road

Inspired by a variety of Latin American dance genres, this piece represents the joy of diverse people coming together to share their love and community in a grand fiesta or party.

Fiesta No. 4

Explore the beauty of nebulas in outer space with this vibrant and energetic composition for beginning band. While there are moments when everyone is playing together, at other times melodic lines are passed from instrument to instrument, weaving in and out of the texture evoking a tapestry of many shining stars.

Blue Nova Fanfare

This sinister-sounding work captures the toxic beauty of atropa belladonna, a poisonous plant cultivated for dubious medicinal purposes for centuries. Very accessible with limited ranges; third clarinet plays over the break.

Atropa Belladonna

Evocative and beautifully scored, this cinematic and playable Grade 4 work is in five movements, one for each of the provincial and national parks along Lake Superior's northern shoreline.

Lake Superior Suite

Sway began life as the second movement of my Incidentally Music for flute, clarinet, guitar, violin and cello, premiered in 2010. That piece was an exploration of dance or dance-like forms of Latin heritage. Sway is not a specific dance form, but generally inspired by the genre.
During the early spring of 2022, it occurred to me that it would translate well to concert band, allowing me to explore coloristic possibilities and add some extra rhythmic interest to the main melody.

Sway

Mostly lyrical and cinematic in scope but well scored for Grade 4 band.

Night Light

For Maestro German Gutierrez, Director of Orchestras at Texas Christian University

Danza Del Sol

Full Orchestra Score & Parts

There is one central musical idea in this piece: an idée fixe around which everything revolves. This idea is repeated and varied, even meditated upon, slowly changing color and shape, becoming increasingly tumultuous until eventually returning to the quiet stillness of the opening.

Unquiet Hours

In the music you'll hear the melody presented by different groups of instruments to honor the tradition of how the alabado was often sung by four groups separated into men, women, boys, and girls.

Mission Songs

Rhythmically catchy, this piece features plenty of syncopation and a pop-like feel. Lots for the percussion to do as well!

Step by Step

Our sun has represented different things throughout history. It was a deity. An indirect source of food. A supplier of light. A point for navigation. An aid in the telling of time. However, one thing has remained constant: humans have always been enamored by the sheer power of the sun. Solar flares are one such manifestation of this power. NASA states that “[solar] eruptions are created when the motion of the sun’s interior contorts its own magnetic fields. Like the sudden release of a twisted rubber band, the magnetic fields explosively realign, driving vast amounts of energy into space. This phenomenon can create a sudden flash of light -- a solar flare.” This piece alludes to the awesome power of a solar flare with its driving rhythms, sudden changes, and majestic fanfares.

Solar Flare

A rock-driven work reminiscent of bands like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin! Beginning bands will enjoy learning new articulations and dynamic levels. The low brass are featured on the introduction of the melody, and all instruments will have fun with the groove and '60s style harmony. Trombones get much practice from sixth position C to D. Percussionists are featured throughout in the underlying pulse and special auxiliary instruments.

Beat

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