The composer's homage to the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, "Baby Blue Roses" was composed for the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast. The trumpet version includes both B-flat and C Trumpet
In 1609, Michael Praetorius harmonized the version of Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming with which most of us are familiar. His contemporary, Melchior Vulpius, created a four-voice canon on the same