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Featured Works
New Music in Honor of
America's 250th Anniversary
Symphony No. 11
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Symphony No. 11 (The Year 1775) was commissioned by Jeff Leonard and the Lexington Bicentennial Band in celebration of the band’s 50th Anniversary and the 250th Anniversary of the first shots of the American Revolution. The overall concept for the piece owes a debt to Dmitri Shostakovich’s own Symphony No. 11 (The Year 1905), a work inspired by the Russian Revolution of that year. My work follows a similar dramatic arc, including a faster second movement depicting the events of a specific day and a final movement which considers the larger impact of those events.
Revolutionary (Music for Concord 1775) was commissioned by the Concord-Carlisle (MA) High School Bands, Christopher Noce (director), to honor the 250th anniversary of the first shots of the American Revolution. Rather than attempting to musically recreate the story of the revolution, I chose instead to focus on the more universal and abstract sense of defiance and moral courage that lay behind that revolution. The piece was recently selected as the "test piece" for the 2026 Governor's Cup, sponsored by "Pershing's Own" United States Army Band.
Revolutionary
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