This colorful and spirited contemporary work, with bold dissonances and creative use of percussion, reflects the compositional skills of this talented composer and music educator. Akey has distinguished himself as an outstanding music educator and composer for concert band. This piece is contemporary, with crisp rhythms and brilliant woodwind flourishes. This spirited cut-time march has been a favorite for over 75 years. This thrilling contemporary work by an internationally acclaimed composer is by turns dramatic, playful, contemplative and uplifting.
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Youth Symphony Orchestra and a middle school instrumental teacher. This well known contemporary composer has written a moving contrapuntal Ricercar and contrasted it with a spirited, rhythmic Dance to give us an ideal selection for contest, festival or general programming. This symphonic tone poem, named for John Jay Shipherd who founded Oberlin, Ohio, is dramatic music at its best by this world-renowned composer. Anne McGinty Two recurring motifs, which are developed both separately and together, give rise to one meaning of the title - the concurrence of events in time. Commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters Association for the 1991 Junior High All-Region Festival, this piece was premiered at all eight regional band sites throughout Indiana, thus giving another meaning to the title.