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"I
was fortunate enough to be there for the premiere. It was
simply stunning. A great work that defies stylistic categorization;
a totally "new" concept in performance. It is as
revolutionary to the band world as Wagner's music drama concept
was to opera!" Aldo Forte, Composer
"Dear
Steve, I hope, You remember Your trip to Austria feeling good.
Now I have some days off and time for thinking about what
has happened. It was like a miracle: with You there are so
many impulses for our efforts playing music – or better
living music! Thank You very much for these professional tips!
But there is even much more than growing competence –
there is a deeper connection to music from heart – and
now there is more wisdom for becoming a good man. I have got
some deeply impressing feedback to our concert in Brucknerhaus:
for example,
a)
Now I am going to concerts for 30 years – but this concert
is on the top of all concerts I have ever heard.
b) Thank You for this concert. Tears are in my eyes and I
hope, that everyone hearing this concert is changed now. Thank
You for showing us our responsibility for peace and I hope,
that the people will think about it.
c) Your concert touched me in my soul – it was much
more than a concert!" Karl Geroldinger, Conductor
Sinfonischen Blasorchester Ried.
"Steve:
I want to thank you for making my last concert as a concert
band conductor one of the most memorable experiences of my
life. It obviously couldn't have happened without you. No
other composer's music would have sufficed for me to take
all that I was feeling and the kids were feeling, and make
it not a performance but a monument. Please know this. I will
say it again: No other composer's music would have sufficed.
Not just would have been appropriate, or useful, or any other
word...the art, the life, you pour into your work was vitally
necessary for this to have taken place. You provided us with
the vehicle to go where we needed and wanted to go. For that
I will be eternally grateful to you." Jeff Waggoner,
one of the commissioners of Last World Standing
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This piece will be recorded to DVD in October of 2006 by the
SBO-Reid Orchestra from Austria.