2000.fi was composed as a fanfare for the new Millennium and is a solo vehicle for drums. The writing is very contrapunctual in some sections. It benefits from twelve-tone technics in some of its
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Beginning with an opening chorale by the trombone section, then the rest of the winds, August Dreams is a gorgeous trombone solo feature that settles into a lovely, modern bossa-like
Begin, Began, Begun is a clarinet solo feature with nods to Artie Shaw and Eddie Daniels. The style undergoes changes from a groove with a 16th pattern on hi-hat, to afro-cuban 6/8, to medium
Oscar Levant's classic ballad is set here as a feature for female vocalist in the key of B-flat. It modulates to C for a piano solo with a return to the original key for the vocal re-entrance.
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