instrumentation:

2 piccolo trumpets, 5 C trumpets, 1 flugelhorn 4 french horns, 4 trombones, 1 bass trombone, euphonium, 3 tubas, timpani, 4 percussion: glockenspiel, chimes cymb. a2, B.D., S.D. tam-tam, sus. cymb. triangle

Program notes – by the composer:

In 2007, conductor Michael Krajewski approached me about composing a highly spirited and patriotic symphonic overture with a somewhat unique twist: that it would somehow combine the “sounds” of John Williams and John Philip Sousa, y...