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Escapade is a National Band Association/Revelli Memorial Composition Competition Winner and a recipient of The American Prize in Composition: Band/Wind Ensemble Music Division  Honorable Mention. It is a high-energy piece integrating a "funk" section in a well-crafted work. Exciting and challenging.

Escapade

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This music celebrates the life of Adrienne Grunow. It combines her rhythm and vibration with things that are dear to her. By listening and performing ADRIENNE'S BLISS, you will have the honor of getting to know her and her spirit will live on. All three movements are available as a set. The set is listed separately.

Adrienne helped create welcoming, respectful, caring, and vibrant communities in her life, work, and play. She was a catalyst for bringing people together and her presence reverberated in all her communities. This resonance is represented by the letters of her namesA, B, C, G (all of which are members of the musical alphabet). A simple, yet elegant binary form (musically represented as AB) was chosen for the second movement. It opens with Adrienne's instrument, Alto Saxophone, contemplatively playing the pitches A and G, then A and B. With the full presentation of her pitches (A, B, C, G), others are drawn in and slowly join in. Adrienne welcomed others with open arms and in return she received A Community's Embrace. Commissioned in loving memory of Adrienne Bliss Grunow from the Meridian Community Band, Okemos, Michigan

Community's Embrace, A

Celebrate America 250 with a stop at MONTICELLO, the iconic home of founding father and author of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson. Monticello was the center of Thomas Jefferson’s universe. The aim of this work is to capture the joy, enthusiasm, excitement, passion and sincerity of Jefferson’s words relating to Monticello and to amplify them with music. 

Here are a few words Jefferson wrote, “Monticello; where has nature spread so rich a mantle under the eye? mountains, forest, rocks [and] rivers” . . . “[Where I] remain in the bosom of my family, my farm and my books” . . . “I am as happy nowhere else, and in no other society, and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will, at Monticello.”

Monticello

"Is There a Santa Claus?" is a musical work for narrator and band written by Joseph T. Spaniola based on the text taken from Francis P. Church's 1897 New York Sun editorial titled "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" which was published in the in response to a letter by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon. The editorial has become an important part of popular Christmas lore and so will this music.

Is There a Santa Claus?

This music celebrates the life of Adrienne Grunow. It combines her rhythm and vibration with things that are dear to her. By listening and performing ADRIENNE'S BLISS, you will have the honor of getting to know her and her spirit will live on. All three movements are available as a set. The set is listed separately.

Adrienne was devoted to the Meridian Community Band (the commissioning body for this work). In many ways she represents the heart of the organization. The opening movement, Meridian, is a spirited march commemorating this devotion. She embodies the pulse of the band, so it is fitting that the rhythm of her first, middle, maiden, and married names (Adrienne Bliss Copeland Grunow) serve as the primary generating material for the music (according to her father, some of her favorite band works were Sousa marches). The theme is present most clearly after the brief introduction and is infused in varying ways throughout the movement. Commissioned in loving memory of Adrienne Bliss Grunow from the Meridian Community Band, Okemos, Michigan

Meridian

This music celebrates the life of Adrienne Grunow. It combines her rhythm and vibration with things that are dear to her. By listening and performing ADRIENNE'S BLISS, you will have the honor of getting to know her and her spirit will live on. This option includes all three movements: I. Meridian, II. A Community's Embrace, III. Band of Gold. Each movement is available separately. The individual movements are listed separately. Commissioned in loving memory of Adrienne Bliss Grunow from the Meridian Community Band, Okemos, Michigan

Adriennes Bliss

The music is organized around four images from the park: a leisurely stroll, relaxing on the lawn, a rousing concert, and time together. These are snapshots of a carefree, joyful and enriching evening Together in the Park.

The Wheaton Municipal Band is based in the City of Wheaton, Illinois. Since 1930, the band has been a haven for local musicians to come together, make music, and give back to their community through performance. The band's Thursday night concert series is one of the most treasured and anticipated events of the summer. This annual series is presented in Wheaton's beautiful downtown Memorial Park and attracts thousands of individuals, couples, and families. The band's talent for bringing people of all ages together is the inspiration for this music which was written for and premiered by the group at The Midwest Clinic in December 2023

Together in the Park

This music celebrates the life of Adrienne Grunow. It combines her rhythm and vibration with things that are dear to her. By listening and performing ADRIENNE'S BLISS, you will have the honor of getting to know her and her spirit will live on. All three movements are available as a set. The set is listed separately. 

The third movement presents several sources for Adrienne's joy: her marriage to Todd Grunow; their shared passion for action/adventure movies; and her collection of family and friends. Presented in the manner of music that accompanies the opening or ending credits of a movie, themes for the varying cast of characters are presented so each gets a moment in the spotlight. Taken together, these represent Adrienne's Band of Gold. Commissioned in loving memory of Adrienne Bliss Grunow from the Meridian Community Band, Okemos, Michigan

Band of Gold

A joyful and invigorating work. Lyrical and rhythmic. Ideal for an opener or closer.

Commissioned by Kate and Randy Safford in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Birmingham Concert Band (Birmingham, Michigan)

Resounding Joy

Perseverance: An Isolation Chronicle - During the height of the pandemic, people around the world isolated themselves at home for extended periods of time. Each hour and day were difficult to distinguish from the next, each person feeling like Homer's Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a large stone up a hill only for it to roll down as it approached the top, or being tasked to find a corner in a round room. The days were as the river in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, "this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was always there, was always at all times the same and yet new in every moment." An underlying focused calm was the foundation on which survival was built. It allowed for resolutely facing the moment, courageously moving forward while standing still. Solemn thoughts of resolution invade one's heart and mind and help fuel the passion to press on. Defiantly, the quest continues, compelled onward by a bold, unwavering, and relentless spirit. How much time has passed? Be it an hour, day, week, month, or year, it was always at all times the same and yet new in every moment and comprises this chronicle of Perseverance.

Perseverance

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