To Be Fed By Ravens by W. Francis McBeth

[@breandan789]

We played this under McBeth's baton in 1974 at SMU summer band camp - the year before it was published. WOW, what memories this brings back.

[@rartis1965]

Played this piece in high school on timpani and that's when I found out what hard work does for you. I made All-State in Virginia that year and became recognized as a timpanist as well as a percussionist.

[@kabalahman]

Meh... performance is superb, but this composition lacks McBeth's umph for the first half. Strong discordant structures, but little juxtaposing winds to percussion. Then, in the second segment, a good deal of it had the "texture" of his earlier (amd personally much more flavorful) The Seventh Seal... IMHO.