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| The Etowah Youth Orchestra and and their director Mike Gagliardo will be
giving the New York and Carnegie Hall premier of my work Adagio and Allegro for Orchestra
on June 10, 2002. I am so proud to have this fine group of young musicians perform this work. The youth orchestra premiered this work on their 1998 spring concert to much applause. Since then it has received several performances and will be included in one of the upcoming Gadsden Symphony Orchestra concerts. When the orchestra was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, director Mike Gagliardo gave the students a choice from all of the pieces that they have performed in their history and this is the one they chose. If you are interested in hearing the work, here is an MP3 of the work. (It is rather large >7 MByte, so if you have a slow connection, be prepared for a wait.) Also, if you want to peruse the score, I have provided it in PDF format (ca. 780K) for you to download. If you are interested in programming it, please contact me for arrangements. Also on the program are several other New York and Carnegie Hall premiers: A Season For Us (2001) by Alan Moss, Atlas' Revenge (2001) by Stella Sung and the orchestral version of To Bind The Nation's Wounds (1998, 2002) by James Curnow. All of these works are good, solid works. Atlas' Revenge by Stella Sung is severe workout for the orchestra and if you are not familiar with James Curnow's To Bind The Nation's Wounds from the band version, you will be amazed at the power of the piece. (The work is a response/memorial to the tragedy of the Oklahoma City bombings. Mike thought that it would also be an appropriate work to perform to memorialize the events of 9/11/2001.)
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