The Starry Night

"The Starry Night" is an original composition for concert band that was inspired by the famous painting by van Gogh. A delicate woodwind passage opens the piece before the full band enters with a stately variation on the opening melody woven with lush, contemporary harmonies. The piece then moves into a minor tonality and passes through a variety of harmonic changes before reaching a climactic return to the original key with a majestic variation on the opening melodic themes. The composition ends, as it began, with a quiet reprise of the opening melody, concluding on an uplifting and unexpected Picardy third.