For the Morton High School Symphonic winds on the occaision of their first performance at the Illinois Music Educators All State Convention
Based on the following poem by Robert Frost.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So down goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost
“Whirl” is the result of a fun collaborative project with my wife’s 6th grade beginning band in Morton, Illinois. As part of her beginning band…
For the Past and the Future was commissioned by the students, parents, and staff of the Johnston Community Schools Band Program in honor of Tim…
Here is a mock-up of the new piece I just finished for Dunlap High School named “A Card from Ellen”. It is dedicated to the…
