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This powerful work for band is Karel Husa's most famous piece. Being moved by the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact nations in 1968, Husa sought to write a work that would pay tribute to a city that, he said, had only seen freedom for a few moments of its thousand-year long existence. This first movement begins very quietly with a lengthy piccolo solo, but eventually erupts into a chaotic fanfare mainly featuring the upper brass. Before the movement ends, however, the haunting piccolo returns one last time. Performed by the North Texas Wind Symphony.