Enter the Olympians honors the competitive spirit. While composer in residence of the "Meet The Composer Louisville Residency," I was commissioned to create a new score for the twenty-plus middle school bands of the Jefferson County Public School System. The work was to be appropriate for widely diverse bands: interesting to advanced students, yet accessible to less advanced students or bands with limited instrumentation.

For interest, Enter the Olympians uses pedal tones with harmonies suspe...