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Bayshore HS & The STORMSystem! Bravo!
WPIM: Winds & Percussion in Motion
Message to Marines and Conductors
Schedule a Video Conference

This 9 April 2012 is the 70th Anniversary of the Bataan Death March. Because of pieces like KAKEHASHI: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE and LAST WORLD STANDING, I wish I had greater channels of connection to Conductors and the world of Music at large. Alas, like the Souls of Bataan & Corregidor so, so much is known by only a few. It's ironic for instance that I decided to use facebook only on 11/11/11. It's okay. I rely upon you and Your networks to spread the news about what is available as we continue to honor these Men, some of whom, after all these years and all they have been through, are still with us.

KAKEHASHI: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, is entire self-contained concert written to honour the Souls of Bataan & Corrgeidor and the enormous, horrific price of Freedom. LAST WORLD STANDINGis a sequel work, an anti-war ode to Peace, a 33-minute work which brought an 18-minute standing ovation at The Brucknerhaus, Austria Premiere. Please investigate these works in all of their forms, from recordings to DVDs to Scores. What they serve is worth your Time. Godspeed. S

On 28-29 October 2011, The Concerto for Violin & Orchestra was premiered. Previously recorded on the STORMWORKS Chapter 5:8 CD Set: WRITINGS on the WALL as my own transcription, the original work was recorded live at the premiere. To see a Review translated from Dutch by the Music Critic himself, please click.

The work was played by Carla Leurs. The Conductor was Joos Smeets

Here is some information regarding this very fine Musician, Conductor and Orchestra.http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1631139090#!/carla.leurs
http://www.deraa.nl/
http://www.carlaleurs.com
http://www.joostsmeets.com

STORMWORKS Chapters 5:8 Memento

STORMWORKS® VisaREEL™ presents, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE

European premiere of LAST WORLD STANDING
SBO RIED Brucknerhaus Photos & Videos

"Dear Mr Melillo, Thanks for your great, lyric, powerful musical eloquence ... it's quite elysian! You've owned with your works a new musical dimension ... a light never seen before! Thanks and best regards from Germany, Osnarück!" Jens Schröer, Conductor


New STORMRecord
as of 7 January 2008:

From ORDERING the piece to having it delivered, with the Parts printed and ready for rehearsal in... 4 ... that's FOUR Minutes! That's to Kenneth Boyd of West Orange, HS, Florida... thus usurping for Florida the phrase, "In a New York Minute!" Dr. Joseph Herman of Tennessee Tech University... was the previous record-bearer at 9 minutes.

MORE on PAD BASS:

A TRIBUTE saying FAR MORE about KARL GEROLDINGER and his fine Musicians! But I'll take his commentary on the PAD BASS!!! He understands completely!


"Dear Steve, We did MUSASHI 5 times since May, and we feel increasing our fascination and love for this extraordinary music. We played Musashi at World Music Contest in Kerkrade last Sunday. The audience was moved on and electrified, we got standing ovations. This Music is to touch the souls and to inspire people."
Karl Geroldinger, Conductor of SBO-Ried, Austria

Song from UNSUNG HEROES (Best Documentary/LA Film Festival).

Check out this recently discovered recording of JURASSIC BLUES! Enjoy!

What can a JHS Band do? Video!

Hand Crafted Batons & Mallets by Frans.

Music & Dates

Composition is the Art of Architecturing the Spilling of Blood in such a manner as to make the act of Dying Live into Forever. SLM 2004

FIRSTS!

  • FIRST emailing of PDF Music; STORMWORKS (1993)
  • FIRST CDR of PDF Music: STORMWORKS (1996)
  • FIRST internet REHEARSAL: STORMWORKS (2005)
  • FIRST Score and Parts emailing: STORMWORKS (1997)
  • FIRST internet Rehearsal CONDUCTED! STORMWORKS (2007)
  • FIRST Composer to self-publish and "buck the system"? STORMWORKS (1992)
  • FIRST Time that a Composer's CD with ORIGINAL MUSIC for BAND has been nominated for a Grammy Award: STORMWORKS (2006)
  • FIRST Composer of Music for Band to utilize the DigitalMusiCard technology. See Billboard Magazine, March 2008.

Why wouldn't you have known about these Firsts? There is no megaphone other than the word-of-mouth endorsements of fellow STORMDirectors. AND! Everyone wants to be first to be second!

Privacy Statement & Return Policy

From its inception, STORMWORKS® has been a self-publishing DAVID.

Other "self-publishers" include:

L. Frank Baum (and the SYNC here is enormous!)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lord Byron
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
e.e cummings
Alexandre Dumas
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Harding
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling
D.H. Lawrence
Edgar Allen Poe
Alexander Pope
Beatrix Potter
George Bernard Shaw
Percy Shelley
Upton Sinclair
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman

and Franz Josef Haydn who self-published his oratorio "Die Scopfung (The Creation) in 1800.