Thank you. This has been a very effective warmup for many school bands and is especially useful as a marching band warmup on the grid or field at the beginning of rehearsal. The point is that one's warmup shouldn't be something to do before the "real" music, but should be an exercise in musicality as well as technique. Thanks again for your comment.

Thank you. Wrote it for a friend's 2nd-3rd year middle school band. (And any time you can add finger snaps, kids love it. 🙂)

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Thanks, Gabe! I have a shorter arrangement of the fanfare and tune for brass quintet alone; this is an expansion of that for organ, brass, and congregational voices.

Awesome! Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks!

Eric: Thank you. Check out this recording by my friends in the New Haven-based ensemble, "Brass": kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKmTm55ohNF0f9E

Thank you!

Thanks, Gabe. Merry Christmas!

Agreed Mr. Myers. I really have troubles trying to find a decent arrangement of this patriotic song - most of them are very "Bflat" and uninspiring. Todd has a knack of making arrangements playable AND interesting and fun to play.

Thanks. The lyrics are achingly poignant; but even without, the tune and harmonies are so hymn-like that it's a great fit for brass quintet.