"Steve, We rendered "That We Might Live"
last night. It was amazing!
Your music was the central piece for the evenings performance,
which
included works like: Mendelssohn's War March of the Priests,
Grieg's
Funeral March, Sousa's Semper Fidelis...among others. The
concert was even more special for me, because last night was
the first time that the students rendered this piece of music
without it being an "academic" pursuit. Finally,
they just "let go" and chose to simply embrace the
music.....it brought out truly powerful emotions for me and
the audience. It was like something just clicked with the
orchestra....and all of a sudden they all realized simultaneously
what this music was really about. You should have heard both
the horn and violin soli near the beginning of the piece......my
heart melted! Thank you so much for writing music that is
not only REAL, but challenges our students
to be sensitive, caring, and thoughtful individuals."
Scott Hensil Orchestra Director- AP Music Theory
CB West HS & CB South HS
"There's that point in the Music - that part - that moment
- when a Question is asked, and in that same moment, that
same instant, the Answer is given! 'Why?' is asked, and as
you ask it, before there are words - the anguished mind and
heart colliding - the answer, or something more than an answer,
is received... The mind is cleared, the Heart, freed."
Nick Melillo
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