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A concert opener to kick off your performance on an upbeat note!
  Featuring various sections of the ensemble throughout, this piece is sure to
  be a hit with audiences and performers alike.

Resurgence

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Based on the Germanic folk legend. This piece follows the emotional
  journey of parents who have their newborn swapped out with the devilish
  creature, the Changeling.

Der Wechselbalg

Trumpet Quintet

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Within A Dream was written to commemorate life changes, the 
    
    the transformative power of bad experiences, and the peace that can
    
    come from embracing them. It serves as a musical journal of
    
    sorts, first articulating concepts of loss, grief, and futility,
  which
    
    then morph into acceptance, hope, and tranquility.
    
    
    
    The text is based on a particular favorite poem of mine, A Dream
    
    Within A Dream, an 1849 poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem
    
    explores the uncertainty of life and the power of human
    
    imagination. It follows two speakers, one trying to seize the
    
    moment and the other reflecting on their futile attempts at finding
    
    happiness. The poem is a Romantic take on loss and how life can
    
    sometimes seem pointless.
    
    
    
    The poem opens with the narrator reflecting on a dream and how
    
    life can seem meaningless. The second speaker addresses the perils
    
    of overreaching and trying to grasp the sweetest moments in life.
    
    The poem ends with musings on how we cannot prevent the
    
    passing of time, reflecting on the uncertainty of life, in a manner
    
    typical of Poes writing style. The poem is noted for its dark tone
    
    and its philosophical commentary on life and death.
    
    
    
    For this setting, the structure is backward. The opening of the
    
    piece is reflective, almost pensive. It is the aftermath of betrayal,
    
    and a sense of loss fills this section, as well as feelings of
  futility
    
    and frustration. There is a lingering sense of time mixed with the
    
    sweeping, lilting piano phrases. At measure sixty-five, the piece
    
    begins to turn with a somewhat painful acceptance that melts into
    
    a feeling of tranquility. The song grows from this tranquility, to
    
    hope, and finally to bliss as the character overcomes feelings of
    
    futility and embraces all life has to offer.

Within A Dream

SATB Octavo

Remnants is a non-programmatic work for wind band which makes use of the
  style of contemporary film scoring: vertical and horizontal development, the
  leitmotif, shifting tonal colors, and simple, but imaginative, harmonic
  language.

Remnants of Things Forgotten

A slowly-evolving choral for clarinet choir. This piece challenges the
  ensemble's expressivity as it churns over its main thematic idea from start
  to finish.

Elegy for Six Clarinets

Woodwind Sextet

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