BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 4:30Composed: 2022 Programme Note:“O Frabjous Day, Alice Slays!”, is a short, riotous piece written for Flowers Band and their entry to 2023 Brass In Concert. It depicts Alice slaying the jabberwocky. First performance by Flowers Band, Paul Holland, director, 2023. Published… Read More »O Frabjous Day, Alice Slays!
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 4:30Composed: 2022 Programme Note: “Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely” is a short, contemplative piece written as a tribute to Bramwell Tovey. Its brevity and simplicity and its wise and lovely inspiration presented unfamiliar difficulties and raised… Read More »Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 12 minutesComposed: 2016 Programme Note: Sometimes medical science and the spectacle of the theatre intersect. The Reanimation of Forster’s Corpse tells one such story. George Forster was a murderer and was sentenced to be hanged at the Newgate prison on January… Read More »The Reanimation of Forrester’s Corpse
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 11 minutesComposed: 2004 Programme Note: The poet Wallace Stevens was a lawyer at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. Even after winning a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry, he remained behind his desk at the office and continued to write his… Read More »Hartford Accident and Indemnity
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 11 minutesComposed: 1992 Premiere: First performance by the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Toronto, Ontario, 2015. Recording(s): Recorded by the Hannaford Street Silver Band.